Annals of Bath County, VirginiaIn this standard history of Bath County, Morton treats the discovery and settlement of the region, the Lewis Land Grant, Bath's early history and its pioneers, the organization of the county, and Bath County in the colonial, Revolutionary, and Civil wars. Of greatest genealogical import are the chapters devoted to the names of heads of families in Bath in 1782, early marriage records, a roster of Confederate soldiers, and a list of families in Greater Bath. |
Contents
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Discovery and Settlement | 10 |
The Lewis Land Grant | 22 |
Areas of Settlement | 36 |
The Mineral Springs | 42 |
Early Political History | 51 |
Roads and Road Builders | 56 |
Life in the Pioneer Days | 62 |
Organization of Bath | 107 |
The Surnames of Bath | 111 |
A List of Early Marriages | 127 |
Seventy Years of Bath History | 134 |
Bath in the War of 1861 | 143 |
The Bath Squadron | 146 |
Roster of Confederate Soldiers | 152 |
Cloverdale | 162 |
Ten years of Indian Wars | 79 |
The Point Pleasant Campaign | 88 |
Bath During the Revolution | 94 |
Selim the Algerine | 101 |
Efforts Toward a New County | 104 |
The Calfpasture Valley | 167 |
The Bath of Today | 172 |
Alleghany County | 176 |
The Families of Greater Bath | 186 |
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