Publications for Sale

The Northumberland County Historical Society keeps the following books by local authors in stock.  Please contact us by phone, 804.580.8581, or via our contact form to have publications shipped to your address. At this time, we don’t have the ability to take payments electronically.  Shipping charges currently are as posted here and are subject to change.  If you are in the area, you can save shipping charges by browsing our Books for Sale shelf at the library, Wednesday through Friday from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM. 

Any Volume of The Bulletin of the Northumberland County Historical Society

(Vol. I published 1964 to Vol. LX published 2023. Check for availability).

$20.00 each plus $6.00 postage per volume.

Index – The Bulletin of the Northumberland County Historical Society 1964 – 1993     

$20.00 each plus $6.00 postage

Index – The Bulletin of the Northumberland County Historical Society 1994 – 2013

$20.00 each plus $6.00 postage

A Booker Family of Virginia Gloucester and Essex Counties and the Northern Neck With Some of the Descendants and Related Families

By J. Motley Booker, M.D.; pub. 1994.        

$25.00 plus $10.00 postage

Home Birth Records of Dr. Chichester Tapscott Peirce 1919-1954

Transcribed and compiled by Margaret L. Forrester; published 2019.

$20.00 plus $6.00 postage

Home Birth Records of Dr. Chichester Tapscott Peirce Revisited, 1900-1919

Transcribed and compiled by Margaret L. Forrester and Deborah Beuchett Walker.

$15.00 plus $6.00 postage

Northumberland County, Virginia 
Records of Slaves
Volume I, 1650-1795

Researched by Preston Haynie, compiled by Margaret L. Forrester; published 2014.

$20.00 plus $6.00 postage

Northumberland County, Virginia
Records of Slaves
Volume II, 1795-1865, Revised Edition 2017 

Compiled by Margaret L. Forrester.

$30.00 plus $6.00 postage

Efford Family of the Northern Neck  

By Joan M. Efford (Mrs. L. Edwin Efford); pub. 1992.    

$22.00 plus $6.00 postage

The Chesapeake Bay of Yore 

By Frederick Tilp; published 1982.    

$10.00 plus $6.00 postage

Northern Neck Fishing Steamers Go to War
Turning Fishboats into Warships

By Richard W. Covington; published 2022.

$30.00 hardcover; $20.00 softcover plus $6.00 postage

Historic Sites in Virginia’s Northern Neck & Essex County

Edited by Thomas A. Wolf and Edward J. White; Preservation Virginia, Northern Neck Branch.

Distributed by The University of Virginia Press; published 2023, 2nd edition.

$24.95 softcover plus $6.00 postage

Until the Guns Went Silent!

By Susan Anthony-Tolbert and Dorian A. Tolbert; published 2017.

$20.00 plus $6.00 postage

(All proceeds go to the Historical Society.)

Menominee, Lost Lights! The Sinking of the Unarmed Tug and Its Barges off the Virginia Coast in World War II

By Susan Anthony-Tolbert and Dorian Tolbert; published 2016.

$10.00 plus $6.00 postage

The Home Front: Northumberland County, Virginia in World War II   

By Susan Anthony-Tolbert, Ph.D. and Dorian A. Tolbert; published 2015.

$15.00 plus $6.00 postage

A Quiet Glory: The Life and Times of Dr. James Skelton Gilliam Civil War Surgeon, Beloved Country Doctor of Northumberland and Lancaster Counties, Virginia 

By Susan Anthony-Tolbert and Dorian A. Tolbert; pub. 2011. 

$20.00 plus $6.00 postage

Behind Lady Liberty’s Right Shoulder!

Women of Courage In the Explosions at Black Tom Island and Kingsland, New Jersey: 1916-1917

By Susan Anthony-Tolbert; published 2019.

$20.00 plus $6.00 postage

Horse of the Sand Pounder: East Coast, World War II

By Susan Anthony-Tolbert; published 2017.

$20.00 plus $6.00 postage

Lucy Long, Robert E. Lee’s Other Warhorse: The Mare with Mysteries

By Susan Anthony-Tolbert; pub. 2012.

$20.00 plus $6.00 postage

 

Almost in the Clouds! The Story of the Miskimon Fire Tower Miskimon, Virginia 

By Susan Anthony-Tolbert; pub. 2024

$15.00 plus $6.00 postage

Civil War Survivor, The Mare with Mysteries Robert E. Lee’s Other Warhorse 
The Lucy Long Edition for Young Readers

By Susan Anthony-Tolbert; pub. 2012.

$15.00 plus $6.00 postage

Chasing Conways

By Doralyn Short, John Reese, and Shelby Morris; pub. 2012. 

$25.00 plus $6.00 postage

My Father’s Journey – The Life Lessons of Deacon Daniel Olin Jones

By Mary Jones Day. 

$20.00 plus $6.00 postage

Bogey Neck Road – “The Roots Are Still Growing”

By Mary Jones Day; published 2013. 

$20.00 plus $6.00 postage

The Shepherd’s Fold; Cemetery Records of Northumberland County Virginia Churches

Compiled by the Genealogical Society of the Northern Neck of Virginia; published 2012.

$38.00 plus $6.00 postage

Rocks of Ages
The Story of 300 Years of Family Burials in Northumberland County, Virginia

By Prosser Crowther, Jr.; compiled by Hilary G. Derby, Ph. D.; published 2009. 

$32.00 plus $6.00 postage

 

The Stronghold (c) 1959; Tenth Printing, 2024

A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People

By Miriam Haynie

$18.95 plus $6.00 postage

Local historian Mark Gearhart has just released his one-of-a-kind 17th Century map of Northumberland County and has authorized the Northumberland County Historical Society as the agent for distribution. “A Brief and True Report of Northumberland County Virginia.” is a one-of-a-kind map that plots the location, acreage, and patent date of the land claims of about 200 original settlers from the 1600s. The map also marks the locations of Indian paths and settlements, roads, churches, and other significant landmarks of the early settlement period. Gearhart envisioned, researched, and plotted this map, the first to represent the original Northumberland settlement in this way. “We think visitors and residents will find special interest in the history identified in this map,” said Gearhart. The attractive 40-inch by 30-inch map is on display in the Northumberland County Historical Society library. (Wed., Thurs., and Fri. 9:00 to 4:30) Copies are available there for $100 each. USPS shipping is $8.50 each by media mail, or $20 each by ground advantage.

A Brief and True Report of Northumberland County Virginia

Mark Gearhart’s map was a huge success at his presentation on April 6 at NCHS. The original 50 copies have all been sold. There is a possibility that the map will be reprinted.

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