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Order books contain records of all matters brought before the court when it was in session and may contain important information not found anywhere else. A wide variety of information is found in order books including appointments of county officials and militia officers, records of legal disputes heard before the county court, appointments of guardians, apprenticeships of children by the overseers of the poor, naturalizations, road orders, and registrations of free Negroes. This volume contains entries from Prince William County Minute Book 1752-1755; Prince William County Order Book 1753-1755; and Prince William County Order Book 1755-1757, June 25, 1753, through May 27, 1757. Originally published in 1988, reprinted 2016.
Running title: Prince William County minute book.
Modified format genealogy tracing more than 10 generations of the descendants of George Bigbie, who lived in Tidewater Virginia in the early 1700s. Traces at nearly a dozen distinct family lines in Virginia, Ohio, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas, and includes families with surname spelling variants Bigbee, Bigby, Bigbey, and others. Introduction includes a short essay on the probable origins of the Bigbie name. 172 + v pages, 1200-name personal name index, full footnotes, plus maps, photographs and black and white illustrations. This is a revised and enlarged edition of Volume 1 of the same title published in 1994 and 2010.
The author has abstracted probate records and selected court orders from the county which include items of genealogical interest such as references to the decedent's estates, guardian accounts or bonds, guardians, and persons who were proclaimed tax free. There are over 730 slave listings in this book. A full-name index, which includes the given names all slaves, adds to the value of this work.