Editing Jefferson County, West Virginia (section)

===Formation===
Jefferson County was established on October 26, 1801<ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v183AQAAMAAJ&dq=hening%27s+statutes+at+large+jan.+8+1801+jefferson+county+va&pg=PA271 | title=The Statutes at Large of Virginia: From October Session 1792, to December Session 1806 &#91;i.e. 1807&#93;, Inclusive, in Three Volumes, (New Series,) Being a Continuation of Hening | author1=Virginia | date=1835 }}</ref> from [[Berkeley County, West Virginia|Berkeley County]] because the citizens of southeastern Berkeley County felt they had to travel too far to the county seat of [[Martinsburg, West Virginia|Martinsburg]]. [[Charles Washington]], the founder of Charles Town and brother to George Washington, petitioned for a new county to be formed. It was named for [[Thomas Jefferson]], author of the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]] and third [[President of the United States]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n167 168]}}</ref> Virginia previously had a Jefferson County, which is now [[Jefferson County, Kentucky|part of Kentucky]]. Accordingly, in the State records of Virginia, there are listings for Jefferson County from 1780 to 1792 and Jefferson County from 1801 to 1863, neither of which are still in Virginia.