Pocahontas county Records (Marlinton, WV) formed from Bath and Pendleton counties in 1821 Marriage, Land, Probate and Court records from 1778.Rockingham County Records (Harrisonburg, VA) formed from Augusta county in 1778.
Earlier marriage records can be found in Vol II of Chalkley's Chronicles of the Sctoch Irish Settlement of Virginia :. Birth and Death records from 1853 to 1896. In 1821, Pocahontas County was formed from Bath and Pendleton counties and in 1847, Highland county was formed from the northern part of Bath county and the southern part of Pendleton.įor a progression of maps showing the formation of Virginia counties go to: Īugusta County Records (Staunton, VA) formed from Orange county in 1738. Pendleton county was named in honor of Edmund Pendleton, a member of the House of Burgesses from 1752-1775. 
Pendleton was formed in 1788 from Hardy and Rockingham counties, Hardy having formed from Hampshire county in 1786 and Rockingham in 1778 from Augusta county. Augusta county was the parent county for 21 counties of Virginia, most of the counties of West Virginia and all of Kentucky including Pendleton.
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