Annals of Bath County

by Morton, Oren Frederic

• ISBN13: 9780806346427
• ISBN10: 0806346426
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Genealogical Pub Co

Summary

The work at hand is a complete listing of all extant Shenandoah County marriage bonds from the county's formation until 1850, when the State of Virginia started keeping vital records. All told, Ashby has abstracted the 15,000 oldest Shenandoah County marriages on record, identifying 45,000 brides, grooms, and bondsmen in the process.

Table of Contents

Geography of Bath	1	(9)
Discovery and Settlement	10	(12)
The Lewis Land Grant	22	(14)
Areas of Settlement	36	(6)
The Mineral Springs	42	(9)
Early Political History	51	(5)
Roads and Road Builders	56	(6)
Life in the Pioneer Days	62	(17)
Ten years of Indian Wars	79	(9)
The Point Pleasant Campaign	88	(6)
Bath During the Revolution	94	(7)
Selim the Algerine	101	(3)
Efforts Toward a New County	104	(3)
Organization of Bath	107	(4)
The Surnames of Bath	111	(16)
A List of Early Marriages	127	(7)
Seventy Years of Bath History	134	(9)
Bath in the War of 1861	143	(3)
The Bath Squadron	146	(6)
Roster of Confederate Soldiers	152	(10)
Cloverdale	162	(5)
The Calfpasture Valley	167	(5)
The Bath of Today	172	(4)
Alleghany County	176	(10)
The Families of Greater Bath	186