• 1782 New Kent County Land Tax Records

• 1790/1800 New Kent Co. Tax Lists
  by Yvonne and Steve Binns.

• New Kent County Marriage Notices
  submitted by Terri Lindsay

• New Kent County graveyards at Find a Grave.com
  
Corinth Baptist Church
Olivet Presbyterian Church
Providence Methodist Church

• New Kent County Courthouse
  P.O. Box 98
  New Kent, VA 23124-0098
  
  Telephone: (804) 966-9520
  

• New Kent County, was named either for the English county of Kent or for Kent Island, in the upper waters of the Chesapeake Bay. William Claiborne, a native of Kent who had been driven from Kent Island by Lord Baltimore, was a prominent resident of the New Kent area when the county was formed. (Source: "The Hornbook of Virginia History")

• New Kent became county seat in 1691. New Kent County was formed in 1654 and reduced in size in 1691 with the formation of King and Queen County. (Source: "Virginia, A Guide to the Old Dominion")

• An Act For dividing New Kent County [Passed November 26, 1720]
  Hanover County, Virginia was formed in 1721 from New Kent County, Virginia. ["Journals of the House of Burgesses" published by the Virginia State Library, 1905-1915.]
  

  "WHEREAS many Inconveniences attend the Upper Inhabitants of the said County by reason of their Great distance from the Court house and other places usually appointed for publick meetings.

  BE it therefore ENACTED by the Lieut Govr Council and Burgesses of the present General Assembly And It is hereby Enacted by the Authority of the Same That from and Immediately after the ffirst day of May next the Said County of New Kent be divided into Two distinct Countys And that that part of the County lyeing below the parish of Saint Paul shall for Ever thereafter be called and knowne by the Name of New Kent County And that that part of the County which lyeth in the parish of St Paul shall be called and knowne by the Name of Hannover County and for the due Administration of Justice

  BE it further ENACTED by the Authority aforesaid And it is hereby Enacted That after the Time aforesaid a Court for the said County of Hannover be constantly held by the Justices thereof upon the First Friday of Every Month in Such manner as by the Laws of this Country is provided and Shall be by their Commission directed."

  ex) J. Randolph C H B
  
  Reference: "Virginia Counties: Those Resulting from Virginia Legislation" by Morgan Poitiaux Robinson. [Originally written as "Bulletin of the Virginia State Library, Vol. 9 January, April, July, 1916. Nos. 1, 2 and 3."
  Mr. Robinson held the position of "Archivist" on the "State Library Staff" and made several trips to England to access archived documents pertaining to the history of the "Commonwealth" prior to the American Revolution. His trips abroad resulted in updates and corrections to what had previously been done by "Hening."
  [Contributed by Ray Ryan, Powhatan, Va.]

• The history of New Kent County begins long before the county was settled in 1644 and incorporated a decade later. The region was a thriving confederacy of Indian tribes ruled over by Chief Powhatan and later by his brother, Opechannough.
  
  The first encounter between European settlers and Native Americans occurred in 1607. Capt. John Smith discovered Moysenec, a settlement of the Chickahominy Tribe that is now listed in the National Register of Historic Places and is an important archeological site.
  
  A series of encounters followed, some peaceful and some violent. A peace treaty was signed in 1644, but not before countless battles occurred and two Indian massacres in 1622 and 1644 left hundreds of settlers dead.
  
  New Kent County has a history of survival and determination, from the followers of Nathaniel Bacon who rebelled against the English in the town of Brickhouse, to the soldiers who marched to battle on New Kent's roads.
  
  George and Martha Washington frequently attended serviced at St. Peter's Church, built in 1701 as the home of one of the oldest congregations in Virginia. Rev. David Mossom, the pastor who baptized Martha and presided over both of her weddings, is buried in the northeast corner of the church's interior.
  (Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch newspaper article written on April 14, 1998 by Charles Gerena. Thanks to Barbara LeMay for sending the article to me)

• Also take a look at this web page for more information on the history of New Kent County: http://www.newkent.net/history.html

• Blisland 1654- (also James City Co.)

• Saint John's 1680-1691 (afterwards, King and Queen then King William)

• Saint Paul's 1704-1720 (afterward Hanover Co.),

• Saint Peter's 1679 -

• St. Peter's Church article in "Appleton's Journal", 28 November 1874.

• Saint Stephen's before 1674-1691(afterward King and Queen Co.)

• Stratton Major 1655-1691 (afterward King and Queen Co.)

• New Kent Historical Society
  P.O. Box 24
  New Kent, VA 23124
  Telephone: (804) 966-1376
  

• Tidewater Genealogical Society
  14415 Old Courthouse Way
  Newport News, VA 23608-3728
  Telephone: (757) 988-1055
  Web-site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vatgs/

• New Kent County Resources at Rootsweb
  Rootsweb has made new resource centers for each county in the U.S. From the New Kent County Page you can perform searches in various parts of Rootsweb, join the New Kent County Mailing List, leave an event on the calendar.