Some Records of Sussex County, Delaware

By: C.H.B. Turner, Pub. 1909, Reprinted 2021, soft cover, 418 pages, Index, ISBN #978-1-63911-013-8.

Sussex County was created in 1680 and is the southern most county in the state. It shares boarders with Maryland and the Atlantic Ocean. This book has a wide variety of records within, ranging from: civil, court, church and Bible records. The civil records range from Letters to Petitions to Residents Lists. While the court records cover such things as: Land Grants, Civil Suits, Wills, Administrations and Marriage records. The Church records cover such things as: Letters, Petitions, Subscriber Lists and Vestry records for St. Peter's church. This leaves us to the last type of records: The Bible records. Here one will discover a wealth of genealogical information including things like: births, deaths, and marriages. Also the reader will discover that there are some Kent County records that have been included.