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This volume is largely a sourcebook of genealogical and historical materials compiled from public records of the counties of Rockingham, Augusta, Greenbrier, Wythe, and Montgomery. Contents include Rockingham Marriages, 1795-1825; Rockingham Landowners, 1789; Augusta County Church Records, 1756-1844; Men in Service Against the Indians, 1774; Rockingham Militia, 1788; Early Settlers in East Rockingham; Extracts from Augusta Court Records; and Rockingham Wills. The book also includes sketches of a number of families in the area, among them Bowman, Cassell, Connelly, Craig, Custer, Harnsberger, Hooke, Keesling, Kemper, Kisling, Laird, Miller, Simmern, Sourwine, Spence, and Walker.

"John W. Wayland was the great authority on the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and it goes without saying that his Virginia Valley Records...is an authoritative work."--National Genealogical Society Quarterly (March 1974)