Virginia Genealogy Trails welcomes you to Dinwiddie County Genealogy and History Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption! Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this website become a useful research tool. If you would like to join our group and become the host of this county, please visit our Volunteer Page and contact Kim. (A desire to transcribe data and basic webpage skills are necessary) We regret that we have no time to perform personal research for anybody. All data we come across will be added to this site, so please keep checking back here. If you would like to be notified of when our Virginia sites are updated, Subscribe to our Mailing Lists. Virginia is covered on the Northeast States List County History Dinwiddie County was formed May 1 1752 from Prince George County.  The county is named for Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.  The first inhabitants of the area were Paleo Indians.  They are believed to have been nomadic hunter gaterers following animal migrations.  Early stone tools have been discovered in various fields within the county.  The county raised several militia units that would fight in the American Revolution. Dinwiddie county was the birthplace of Elizbeth (Burwell) Hobbs Keckly who worked for Mrs. Jefferson Davis and later Mrs. Lincoln as a free black dressmaker; of Thomas Day, later at Milton, NC, well noted there as a free black cabinetmaker within the state of NC and southern VA; and of Dr. Thomas Stewart, perhaps Amrica's first free black 18th century rural physician. During the Civil War the Battle of Lewis's Farm, fought along Quaker Road occurred on 29 March 1865, this was the first in a series of attempts by Grant's army to cut Lee's final supply line -- the South Side Railroad -- in spring 1865.  Here the Union forces led by Brigadeer General Joshua L Chamberlain engaged Confederates under Major General Bushrod R Johnson.  After sharp fighting, the Union troops entrenched nearby along the Boydton Plank Road and Johnson withdrew to his lines at White Oak Road.  The Union army cut the rail line four days later, after capturing Five Forks on the first of April in 1865 at the Battle of Five Forks.  Several other engagements were fought in Dinwiddie county, including the Battle of Dinwiddie Court House, battle of Sutherland's Station, and Battle of White Oak Road.  UNINCORPORATED COMMUNITIES: Ammon - Carson - Church Road - DeWitt - Dinwiddie - Edgehill - Ford - Sutherland - Wilsons CIVIL WAR BATTLES: Battle of Peebles' Farm - Battle of Lewis's Farm - Battle of Dinwiddie Court House Battle of White Oak Road - Battle of Five Forks - Battle of Sutherland's Station [Source: wikipedia.org] Note: Even though Petersburg is now an independent city, we include its data here. Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Land Deeds Newspaper Data Obituaries Slavery Records Wills/Probate Records Website updates: Apr 2012 Rebecca A. Epps Obituary Richard R. Hudson Obituary Jan 2012 Luke Pryor Biography Charles Campbell Biography S. J. Withers Biography A. Randolph Wilson Biography James Preston Taylor Biography  Dec 2011 Retired Reverand Bernjamin Joseph Keiley Biography W. Lafayette Watkins Biography Charles D. Witherspoon Biography William H. Tappey Biography Captain James T. Tosh Biography Major Robert M. Sully Biography Powhatan M. Steward Biography Nathan Brook Prichard Biography Joseph J. Percivall Biography Captain John R. Patterson Biography Honorable James M. Mullen Biography J. Edward Moyler Biography Samuel H. Marks Biography Bernard Mann Biography Captain Louis L. Marks Biography William Robertson McKenney Biography Dr. H. G. Leigh Biography Francis Rives Jarratt Biography Thomas J. Jarratt Biography Cary W. Jones Biography Edgar A. Hartley Biography Nov 2011 Frederick William Benteen Biography Walker Anderson Biography Jones Mitchell Withers Biography  Oct 2011 James Osgood Andrew Biography Sep 2011 Honorable Richard Beale Davis, Colonel Everard Meade Field, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Harrison, William Henry Harrison, Colonel M. Feild, Samuel J. Hurt, R. F. Jarvis, and Freeman W. Jones Biographies Jun 2011 John Leyburit Biography William T. Joynes Biography May 2011 Guardianships 1789-1791 Search our Sites Surrounding Counties Amelia Co VA- Brunswick Co VA - Chesterfield Co VA - Nottoway Co VA - Prince George Co VA - Sussex Co VA Visit our National Site Visit our VA State Site Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.