REFERENCES

Repositories     (Libraries, archives, courthouses, etc. - many with searchable online records)

Library of Virginia - Online Catalog - Archives & Manuscripts (there is a wealth of information in the microfilm records in the Richmond Library)

Library of Virginia - Virginia Memory - Chancery Records Index

Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

Hathi Trust Digital Library (great source for searching printed books, you can use this website to search a book for a specfic word such as "Hairston" and quite often you will find a search word not found in the books index)

Google Books (great source for searching printed books, you can use this website to search a book for a specfic word such as "Hairston" and quite often you will find a search word not found in the books index)

U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records

Bassett Historical Center Bassett, Virginia

Dumfries and Galloway Family History Society Dumfries, Scotland

Scotlands People ($ membership)

PRONI - Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

Ancestry.com ($ membership, be careful of member family trees that are often full of errors)

FamilySearch.org (free, great source for census and other government records)

Find A Grave (good site for looking up cemetery markers, however, people are allowed to make virtual cemetery listings for individuals without graves or grave markers, also the relatives that are listed are sometimes incorrect and incomplete.  Lisitngs with photos of the grave markers are very helpful.)

 

Printed Publications (partial listing of the many sources used creating this website)

Carl Greenway Letters, 1965-1966, Bassett Historical Library, Bassett, Virginia.

Early, Ruth Hairston, Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches, J. P. Bell Company, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1927.

Edgar, Robert, An Introduction the the History of Dumfries, J. Maxwell & Sons, Dumfries, Scotland, 1915.

Ellis, Rebecca Hairston, Dr P. C. Hairston, 1971.

Hairston, Elizabeth Seawell, The Hairstons and the Penns and Their Relations, Roanoke, VA 1940.

Hairston, Peter W., J. E. B. Stuart's Letters to His Hairston Kin, 1850-1855, edited and reprinted from the Historical Review, Volume LI, Number 3, Summer 1974.

Hairston, Peter W., The Cooleemee Plantation and Its People, Lexington, NC, Davidson Community College, 1986.

Hall, Wm. K., Descendants of Nicholas Perkins of Virginia,  Edwards Brothers, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1957.

Leyburn, James G., The Scotch-Irish; A Social History, The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1962

Mayhill, Thomas R., Lancaster County Pennsylvania Deed Abstracts & Revolutionary War Oaths of Allegiance, The Bookmark, Knightstown, IN, 1979.

Woods, Re. Edgar, Albemarle County in Virginia, The Michie Company, Charlottsville, VA, 1901.

Hairston, Peter W., The Stories of Beaver Creek, 2003.

Hairston, Peter W., The Stories of Berry Hill,  2005.

Hairston, Victor Edmund & Bregenzer, Ed., The Hairston History, Ft. Worth, Texas, 1998.

Hairston, Nicholas E. Jr., Grave Markers Hairston Cemetery, Lowndes County, Mississippi.