Early Viriginia Oliver Families

This web page was first mounted on March 14, 2009 by Sheila Schmutz. sheila.schmutz@usask.ca and updated on April 18, 2009. Please address corrections and additions to her.

TYPES of RECORDS SEARCHED

All records that contained a person named Oliver that I could find so far, are included. This is still a work in progess though.

Some records for families into which Oliver women married are also listed, but these are far from complete. Do not necessarily give up if you do not find your Oliver on this page. Not all counties have marriage records posted. Oliver women are therefore especially hard to trace since only heads of households were listed in the census until 1850. Marriage records are typically from Ancestry.com or from GenWeb. I have not searched any original marriage records for Virginia.

Note that Virginia is not included in the Federal Census records until the 1810 U.S. Census, but some tax or poll lists were made earlier.

I have ordered some wills from some counties and others were transcribed and posted by others. These are on linked pages, rather than on this page.

Likewise there are data for some men from Revolutionary War Pension Application files that were available on HeritageQuest Online. ALL men who served from Virginia in those records appear on this page. Other men who were born in Virginia but served from another state are shown, if I discovered this.

Oliver Families by County

Amelia County

Marriages

Forest, Elizabeth & Oliver, John 27 Nov 1759 Amelia County
Forrest, Richard & Oliver, Elizabeth 19 Sep 1765 Amelia County
Jennings, Mary & Oliver, Richard 27 Jan 1785 Amelia County
John J. Oliver & Elizabeth C. Cousins 19 Mar 1835 Amelia
Benjamin Oliver & Phebe Pettus 22 Feb 1836 Amelia

Tax Lists/Census

1782 Taxlist

Oliver, James 4 White 16 Black
Oliver, Isaac 6 White 9 Black

1784 Taxlist

Oliver, James 2 White
Oliver, Isaac 7 White

1785 Court Records

John Oliver

Wills and/or Estate Papers

James Oliver, 1787

Amherst County

Revolutionary War Pension Application Records

Jilson Oliver was born in 1754 in Amherst Co, VA. He served from Bedford Co, VA in 1774. He moved to Surry Co, NC after the war. He applied for his pension on 13 Mar 1833 from Pickens District, SC. (Series: M805 Roll: 622 Image 131 File S21405)

1810 United States Federal Census > Virginia > Amherst > Not Stated

William Oliver - 1 - - 1 // - - 1 - - // - 2
Daniel Oliver - - 2 - - // - - 1 - - // - 2
Thomas Oliver 1 - 1 - 1 // - 1 1 - 1 // - -

Bath County

one match within the dark turquoise group in the Oliver Y DNA project has an ancestor in this county

Berkeley County

Revolutionary War Pension Application Records

Thomas Oliver was born May 1765, probably in Berkeley Co, VA. He enlisted from there in 1779. He was living in Jackson Co, OH in 1833 and died 23 Feb 1844 in OH. His widow Eleanor (Spriggs) Oliver applied for his pension on 23 April 1855 from OH. (Series: M805 Roll: 622 Image 309 File R7793)

Brunswick County

Marriages

Edmund Winn & Nancy Oliver 4 Feb 1837
John J. Pulliam & Margaret Oliver 14 Nov 1837

Wills

John Oliver, written 1764, filed 23 June 1766
Lucy Oliver (Mrs. John Oliver), written 1765, filed 23 June 1766

Tax Lists/Census

No Oliver records found before 1840

Buckingham County

Residents Petition to VA House of Delegates, 1785

Richd Oliver

Tax Lists/Census

1810 United States Federal Census > Virginia > Buckingham > Not Stated

Harmon Oliver 3 1 - 1 - // 2 1 - 1 - // - -
John Oliver 3 - - 1 - // 1 - - 1 - // - 2

Caroline County

Established 1727 from the northern third of Essex, King and Queen and King William

some matches within the bright yellow group in the Oliver Y DNA project have ancestors in this county

one match within the dark turquoise group in the Oliver Y DNA project has an ancestor in this county

"The History of Caroline County" by T. E. Campbell in 1954. p. 86

William Oliver was a juror in a trial "for misconduct at the polls" in Caroline County in 1735. It states further that the jurors "were either homesteaders, tavern-keepers, or artisans.

Marriages

Oliver, Thomas & Berry, Mary Ann 24 Oct 1793 Rev. John Young (cmb)
Oliver Thomas & Lucy Eastin, John Young 5 Oct 1797
Ricd? Smith and Jane Oliver – Fr. Goodloe, Sr. 1807 [note perhaps Rice Smith and Jenny Oliver]
Merryman, Presley & Oliver, Elizabeth 26 Jun 1800
Presley Meriman and Eliz. Oliver – Goodloe 1801
GEORGE TUNING & SUSANNA OLIVER 1 Nov 1810 Caroline
WILLIAM OLIVER & SALLY CALL 25 Mar 1813 Caroline
JOHN F. WHITING & MARY A. OLIVER 18 Dec 1822 Caroline
GEORGE P. WHITLOCK & SARAH OLIVER 14 Jan 1824 Caroline
James Oliver of Caroline to Mrs. Elizabeth Long, of Richmond April 3, 1824
JOHN G. OLIVER & MARY E. MARSHALL 3 Jan 1825 Caroline
HIRAM OLIVER & CASSANDRA GATEWOOD 8 Jun 1843 Caroline
JOHN B. OLIVER & MARY WHITLOCK 25 May 1846 Caroline

Tax Lists/Census

CAROLINE COUNTY PERSONAL PROPERTY LIST 1783, from Wm. and Mary Qrtly., Vol. 27, No. 3, Transcribed by Kathy Merrill for the USGenWeb Archives

1st Column: White Tythes 21
2nd Column: do over 16 under 21
3rd Column: Negr over 16
4th Column: do under 16
5th Column: Horses
6th Column: Cattle
7th Column: Wheels
8th Column: Ordinary Licenses

Oliver, John 2 - - 1 3 8 - -
Oliver, William 1 - 1 1 3 12 - -
Oliver, Nichs 1 - 1 1 3 8 - -
Oliver, Steven 1 - 1 3 3 8 - -
Oliver, Richard 1 1 1 1 3 7 - -