Deed books typically contain records of land transactions plus leases, mortgages, bills of sale, slave manumissions, powers of attorney, and more. Deed books are a main staple in genealogy research to determine family relationships. This volume contains entries from (old) Rappahannock County Deed Book No. 3. Originally published in 1989. Reprinted 2016.

Deed books typically contain records of land transactions plus leases, mortgages, bills of sale, slave manumissions, powers of attorney, and more. Deed books are a main staple in genealogy research to determine family relationships. This volume contains entries from (old) Rappahannock County Deed Book No. 4, 1668-1672 beginning on page 1 and ending on page 146 for Courts held October 4, 1668 through February 10, 1669/70. Originally published in 1989. Reprinted 2016.

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The middle chapters of this book are given over to Wilkes County genealogy and biography, with chapters on the buyers and sellers of lots and the early settlers of the county. The work as a whole is crowded with references to ministers, officials, teachers, and soldiers, so much so that an index of more than 2,000 entries was created by Mrs. Hays to encompass them.

James Evans Stowers, Jr. was born 10 January 1924 in Kansas City, Missouri. His parents were James Evans Stowers, Sr. and Laura Smith. He married Virginia Ann Glascock, daughter of Clayton Francis Glascock and Gertrude Francis Wright, 4 February 1954. They had four children. Ancestors and relatives lived mainly in Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and England.