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Helpful Records
County Property Tax & Personal Property Tax records 1782-1800 (at FamilySearch) are very helpful - Some counties list the names of Slaves and also the children when they became old enought (16 or 21) to be taxed. Even without names being listed, when a taxable male child appears it lets you know his birth range within a year.
Probate & Will & Land Records (at FamilySearch)
Church Records
Church of England
St. Peters Parish in New Kent started in 1679. The old wooden church located (?) burned down in 1690 and a new brick church was built and it still stands at the current location.
The Vestry Book and Register of St. Peter’s Parish
New Kent and James City Counties, VA 1684-1786
Register – list of births
John son of John Johnson baptised ye 22 Novem", 1702.
Massie Johnson of John Johnson bapt. ye 5 Febry., 1705.
John then moved to St. Pauls Parish
There were other records for a John (a different one?)
St. Paul’s Parish was created in 1704 from St. Peter’s Parish in New Kent County, VA.
In 1720 the parish boundaries also became those of Hanover County.
Vestry Book of St. Paul’s Parish 1706-1786
List of Taxpayers
Processioning of Lands – neighbors
The Register is not available
Hanover Taxpayers St. Paul’s Parish 1782-1815
Two Churches of England edifices existed in the St. Paul’s Parish at the time of its creation. One was near the present day community of Old Church and the other near the present day Hanover Courthouse.
By 1724 the Parish, which was 60 miles long and 12 miles wide, had outgrown itself and a new parish,
St. Martin’s, was formed from its western end.
In 1729 the church building near the Courthouse was replaced by the church known today as Slash Church. The Rev. Patrick Henry (uncle of the famous patriot) was the rector of St. Paul’s Parish from 1737 until 1777. Toward the end of his tenure a new brick church was constructed. Its location is unknown today.
Quaker Records
Hinshaw's Encyclopedia of American Quaker genealogy, by ... v.6. | HathiTrust Digital Library
Use only as an index to find the real records (Lorand corrupted some of the Johnson information)
Actual Records - at Ancestry
Library of Virginia -
Virginia Memory: Chancery Records Index
Search using the Surname box
Lists of Other Johnsons
Other Benjamin Johnsons - not in the Olive Group