By: Katherine B. Elliott, Pub. 1963, Reprinted 2017, 222 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-378-X. Mecklenburg County was created in 1765 from Lunenburg County, VA. It did suffer some loss of legal records but did not as the result of the Civil War. This volume contains abstracts of all the wills and administrations recorded in Will Book 1, 2, 3, and a part of Will Book 4, totaling 1,290 original manuscript pages. There are over 4,000 people mentioned in this volume.

By: William M. Clemens, Orig. Pub. 1924, Reprinted 2017, 106 pages, Soft Cover., ISBN #0-89308-922-2. This is a complete abstract register of all names mentioned in over 600 wills recorded before 1799. These wills were obtained from the courthouse records of: Amherst, Bedford, Campbell, Loudoun, Priince William, and Rockbridge Counties. They are arrangedalphabetically by the name of the Testator. There are aproximately 3000 names, mainley relatives, who were listed in the Will, plus the place and date of the will was filed.

"This work is a compilation of abstracts of the earliest extant wills and administrations of Surry County, containing abstracts of over 1,250 wills and administrations, with upwards of 7,000 index entries. Typically the will abstracts provide the name of the testator, names of legatees, bequests, names of executors and witnesses, date of instrument, and date of probate. Administrations, of course, usually give the name of the administrator and the date of appointment."--Amazon.