• [Page] Rutherford, Dolores Crumrine. The Page Family in Virginia Personal Property Taxes (1782-1850). 2 vols. Carmichael, Calif.: D.C. Rutherford, 2002. FHL Book 929.273 P141rd v. 1-2 [Winchester appears in Vol. 2]

Land

Local Histories

• Morton, Oren Frederic. The Story of Winchester in Virginia, the Oldest Town in the Shenandoah Valley. Strasburg, Va.: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1925. Available at FHL; digital version at Ancestry ($).

Maps

Military

French and Indian War

• Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Virginia's Colonial Soldiers. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988. Available at FHL. [Identifies some Winchester militia officers, soldier enlistments, and veterans; see place name index.]
• Morton, Oren Frederic. The Story of Winchester in Virginia, the Oldest Town in the Shenandoah Valley. Strasburg, Va.: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1925. Available at FHL; digital version at Ancestry ($). [Includes French and Indian War soldiers.]

Revolutionary War

• Morton, Oren Frederic. The Story of Winchester in Virginia, the Oldest Town in the Shenandoah Valley. Strasburg, Va.: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1925. Available at FHL; digital version at Ancestry ($). [Includes Revolutionary War soldiers.]

War of 1812

• Morton, Oren Frederic. The Story of Winchester in Virginia, the Oldest Town in the Shenandoah Valley. Strasburg, Va.: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1925. Available at FHL; digital version at Ancestry ($). [Includes War of 1812 soldiers.]

Civil War

Since Winchester became an independent city in 1874 from Frederick County,^[1] go to the Frederick County page for information about the Civil War military units of that area. During the Civil War men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their area.

• Morton, Oren Frederic. The Story of Winchester in Virginia, the Oldest Town in the Shenandoah Valley. Strasburg, Va.: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1925. Available at FHL; digital version at Ancestry ($). [Includes Civil War soldiers.]

Civil War Battles

The following Civil War battles were fought in Winchester.

• March 23, 1862 = Kernstown I^[2]
• May 25, 1862 = Winchester I, also known as Bowers Hill^[3]
• June 13-15, 1863 = Winchester II^[4]
• July 20, 1864 = Rutherford's Farm^[5]
• July 24, 1864 = Kernstown II^[6]

Maps of Civil War battles in Virginia: 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865

World War I

• Morton, Oren Frederic. The Story of Winchester in Virginia, the Oldest Town in the Shenandoah Valley. Strasburg, Va.: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1925. Available at FHL; digital version at Ancestry ($). [Includes World War I soldiers.]

Newspapers

• 1798-1820 - Winchester Gazette (Winchester, Va.) at Genealogy Bank ($).
• 1806-1809 - Philanthropist (Winchester, Va.) at Genealogy Bank ($).
• 1828-1836 - Winchester Virginian (Winchester, Va.) at Genealogy Bank ($).
• 1855-1873 - Winchester Virginian at Google News - free.
• 2009-present - Winchester Star (Winchester, Va.) at Genealogy Bank ($).

Indexed images of the Virginia Gazette (1736-1780) are available online through the Colonial Williamsburg website. In addition, Professor Tom Costa and The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia have created a database of all runaway advertisements for slaves, indentured servants, transported convicts, and ship deserters listed in this source and other Virginia newspapers (1736-1803), see: The Geography of Slavery in Virginia. These newspapers are valuable resources for all regions of Virginia.

A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:

Virginia, Winchester, Evening Star Obituaries (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Occupations

• Cutten, George Barton. The Silversmiths of Virginia (together with Watchmakers and Jewelers) from 1694 to 1850. Richmond, Va.: The Dietz Press, Incorporated, 1952. Available at FHL. [Includes a section on Winchester silversmiths.]

Officials

• Morton, Oren Frederic. The Story of Winchester in Virginia, the Oldest Town in the Shenandoah Valley. Strasburg, Va.: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1925. Available at FHL; digital version at Ancestry ($). [Includes civil officers, 1743-1908.]

Probate

Taxation

• [1782] Morton, Oren Frederic. The Story of Winchester in Virginia, the Oldest Town in the Shenandoah Valley. Strasburg, Va.: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1925. Available at FHL; digital version at Ancestry ($). [Includes 1782 list of inhabitants and 1782 list of lot owners.]
• [1792, 1803] Images of the 1792 and 1803 Personal Property Tax Lists of Winchester, Virginia are available online, courtesy: Binns Genealogy.
• [1815] Ward, Roger D. 1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners (and Gazetteer). 6 vols. Athens, Georgia: Iberian Pub. Co., 1997-2000. Available at FHL. [The source for this publication is 1815 land tax. Winchester is included in Vol. 4.]

Vital Records

Societies and Libraries

Websites

• Family History Library Catalog

References

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).
2. ↑ Heritage Preservation Services, Civil War Battle Summaries by State, (accessed 17 August, 2012)
3. ↑ Heritage Preservation Services, Civil War Battle Summaries by State, (accessed 7 August 2012).
4. ↑ Heritage Preservation Services, Civil War Battle Summaries by State, (accessed 7 August 2012).
5. ↑ Heritage Preservation Services, Civil War Battle Summaries by State, (accessed 2 August 2012).
6. ↑ Heritage Preservation Services, Civil War Battle Summaries by State, (accessed 17 August, 2012)

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