Early Wills of Mecklenburg County, Virginia 1765-1799

By: Katherine B. Elliott, Pub. 1963, Reprinted 2017, 222 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-378-X.

Mecklenburg County was created in 1765 from Lunenburg County, VA. It did suffer some loss of legal records but did not as the result of the Civil War. This volume contains abstracts of all the wills and administrations recorded in Will Book 1, 2, 3, and a part of Will Book 4, totaling 1,290 original manuscript pages. There are over 4,000 people mentioned in this volume.