By: William E. Brockman, Reprinted 2021, 234 pages, New Index, ISBN #0-89308-795-5.

Orange county was created from Spotsylvania County, VA. in 1734. In turn it is the parent county of: Augusta, Culpeper, Greene & Frederick. The records contained within this volume are: Clerk Browning's abstracts of various information from loose papers and supplemented by items not recorded and are believed to be the only source for this valuable information; Military Commissions in the State Militia 1735-1793 listing dates & ranks; and family genealogies/detailed information on: Ballard, Catterton, Chapman, Collins, Dowell-Salmon-Brockman, Salmon-Mundy Bible record, Edwards Bible record, Ellis, Graves Bible record, Hume of Culpeper, Macon, Masons of Gunston Hall, Montagues, Quisenberry, Rhodes, Shotwell Bible record, Simms, Terrett, Towles-Clark-Smoot, Willis family of Orange, Step-Stap-Stapp, Brockman, Tribble-Gordon-Burris, Marshall-Durrett, Robert E. Johnson Bible record, John Vaughan Miller Bible record, Wood Bible record.