Gloucester County Virginia - Genealogy Trails

Gloucester County, Virginia
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Hello and welcome to the Genealogy Trails website for Gloucester County, Virginia. 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.

This is a continuation of our original, and highly successful, Genealogy Trails Illinois History and Genealogy Project and we are excited about this opportunity to expand into other states. We welcome your feedback and comments, and of course, your data contributions. If you have data that you would like to have posted on this website, please contact me.

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A LITTLE HISTORY ABOUT GLOUCESTER COUNTY VIRGINIA

..........	Gloucester was formed in 1651 in what was then known as the Virginia Colony. It was named after Henry Stuart the Duke of Gloucester, and the son of King Charles l of Great Britain. It borders the York River and the lower Chesapeake Bay. Richmond, Virginia's capital, is about 75 miles to the west. Gloucester was the site of Werowocomoco, the capital of the Native American group known as the Powhatan Confederacy. It also was once home to members of early First Families of Virginia and important colonial leaders of the American Revolutionary War. Thomas Jefferson composed some of his early work at Rosewell Plantation, for Virginia and Colonial Independence. Rosewell Plantation overlooked the York River and was the home of his close friend John Page. John Page was from one of the First Families of Virginia, and a famous patriot who served as the Governor of Virginia and also in the U.S. Congress. When the war came to it's conclusion at Yorktown, across from Gloucester Point, the county almost was an escape route for the British forces led by General Cornwallis. Gloucester County is rich in farmland. The recorded Native American history of Gloucester County, began soon after the settlement of Jamestown in 1607. Prior to that, it was inhabited for a long time, by the hunter gatherer groups of Native Americans during the late Woodland Period, and earlier. By the late 16th century, the Powhatan Confederacy had been formed in the area Werowocomoco. Europeans arrived around 1570, Spanish Jesuits priests tried to establish something called the Ajacan Mission, but were eliminated by Natives led by Don Luis, a supposed Christian convert. English settlers arrived at Jamestown in 1607. John Smith, one of the English Settlers, was saved by the Native American Princess Pocahontas.	..........
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