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OLD VIRGINIA COUNTIES WHICH BECAME WEST VIRGINIA
UPON THE RENDING OF VIRGINIA IN 1862

                 

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Hampshire  Formed 1754  From Augusta and Frederick. 
Berkley  Formed 1772  From Frederick. 
Monongalia  Formed 1776  From Augusta. 
Ohio  Formed 1776  From Augusta and Yohogania. 
Greenbrier  Formed 1778  From Botetourt and Montgomery. 
Jefferson  Formed 1780  From Kentucky County. 
Harrison  Formed 1784  From Monongalia. 
Hardy  Formed 1786  From Hampshire. 
Randolph  Formed 1787  From Harrison. 
Pendleton  Formed 1788  From Augusta, Hardy, Rockingham and Bath. 
Kanawha  Formed 1789  From Greenbrier and Montgomery. 
Woodford  Formed 1789  From Fayette. 
Brooke  Formed 1797  From Ohio County. 
Wood  Formed 1798  From Harrison and Kanawha. 
Monroe  Formed 1799  From Greenbrier and Botetourt. 
Mason  Formed 1804  From Kanawha. 
Cabell  Formed 1809  From Kanawha. 
Tyler  Formed 1814  From Ohio County. 
Lewis  Formed 1816  From Harrison and Randolph Counties. 
Preston  Formed 1818  From Monongalia and Randolph. 
Nicholas  Formed 1818  From Greenbrier, Kanawha and Randolph. 
Morgan  Formed 1820  From Berkley and Hampshire. 
Pocahontas  Formed 1821  From Bath, Pendleton, Randolph and Greenbrier. 
Logan  Formed 1824  From Giles, Cabell, Tazewell and Kanawha. 
Fayette  Formed 1831  From Logan, Greenbrier, Nicholas and
Kanawha. 
Jackson  Formed 1831  From Mason, Wood and Kanawha. 
Marshall  Formed 1835  From Ohio County. 
Braxton  Formed 1836  From Lewis, Nicholas, Randolph and
Kanawha. 
Mercer  Formed 1837  From Giles and Tazewell. 
Marion  Formed 1842  From Monongalia and Harrison. 
Barbour  Formed 1843  From Harrison, Lewis and Randolph. 
Ritchie  Formed 1843  From Harrison, Lewis and Wood. 
Taylor  Formed 1844  From Harrison, Barbour and Marion. 
Gilmer  Formed 1845  From Lewis and Kanawha. 
Doddridge  Formed 1845  From Harrison, Tyler, Ritchie and Lewis. 
Wetzel  Formed 1846  From Tyler. 
Boone  Formed 1847  From Logan, Cabell and Kanawha. 
Wirt  Formed 1848  From Wood and Jackson. 
Hancock  Formed 1848  From Brooke. 
Putnam  Formed 1848  From Mason, Cabell and Kanawha. 
Raleigh  Formed 1850  From Fayette. 
Upshur  Formed 1851  From Randolph, Barbour and Lewis. 
Pleasants  Formed 1851  From Wood, Tyler and Ritchie. 
Calhoun  Formed 1856  From Gilmer. 
Roane  Formed 1856  From Gilmer, Jackson and Kanawha. 
Tucker  Formed 1856  From Randolph County. 
McDowell  Formed 1858  From Tazewell. 
Clay  Formed 1858  From Braxton and Nicholas. 
Webster  Formed 1860  From Braxton, Nicholas and Randolph. 

Note.—Kentucky has a county named for General William Woodford,
of Caroline; West Virginia has counties named for General Woodford, Edmund
Pendleton, and John Taylor, of Caroline; Virginia and Missouri have counties
named for Caroline men.