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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
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A LITTLE HISTORY ABOUT GLOUCESTER
COUNTY VIRGINIA
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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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GLOUCESTER COUNTY VIRGINIA
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