By: Katherine B. Elliott, Pub. 1969, reprinted 2022, 166 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-382-X. Cumberland County was created in 1749 from the portion of Goochland County south of James River. Its boundaries at the time were Albemarle County (after 1761 Buckingham County) on the west, Amelia County (after 1754 also Prince Edward County) on the south, Chesterfield County on the east and Goochland County on the north. In 1777 the county...