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French, 1850-1865\nSeries XI: Business Records of Intermont Mining, Manufacture, and Development Company, 1891-1893\nSeries XII: Business Records of John and C.M. Anderson, 1856-1866\nSeries XIII: Business Records of John Anderson and Company, 1867-1870\nSeries XIV: Business Records of L. Woolwine General Store, 1870-1871\nSeries XV: Business Records of the Mountain Lake Hotel and Livery, 1892-1895 \nSeries XVI: Business Records of P.L. Williams and Company, 1906-1908\nSeries XVII: Business Records of Porterfield, Huffman, and Company, 1896\nSeries XVIII: Business Records of Ralph M. Stafford and Company, 1861-1874\nSeries XIX: Business Records of Thomas and Robert H. Brotherton, 1857-1862\nSeries XX: Business Records of an Unidentified Bank, 1853-1864\nSeries XXI: Business Records of an Unidentified Blacksmith, 1836-1838\nSeries XXII: Business Records of an Unidentified Blacksmith Shop, 1869\nSeries XXIII: Business records of an Unidentified Blacksmith Shop, 1870-1871\nSeries XXIV: Business Records of an Unidentified Business, 1847-1850\nSeries XXV: Business Records of an Unidentified General Store, 1868-1875\nSeries XXVI: Business Records of an Unidentified General Store, 1886\nSeries XXVII: Business Records of an Unidentified General Store, 1886-1887\nSeries XXVIII: Business Records of an Unidentified General Store, 1887\nSeries XXIX: Business Records of an Unidentified General Store, 1904\nSeries XXX: Business Records of an Unidentified Hotel and Livery, 1890-1892\nSeries XXXI: Business Records of an Unidentified Sawmill, 1886-1872\nSeries XXXII: Business Records of William F. 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Consult \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/local/results_all.asp?CountyID=VA159\"\u003e\"A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.\"\u003c/extref\u003e\n\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSee also: \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=lva/vi02913.xml\"\u003eGiles County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1807-1936.\u003c/extref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Additional Giles County Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia. Consult \"A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.\"","See also: Giles County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1807-1936."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eGiles County (Va.) Business Records, 1836-1912 is comprised of various records created by individuals and companies in pursuit of documenting business activities in and around Giles County (Va.). 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Predominant documents found in these chancery causes include bills (documents the plaintiff's complaint), answers (defendant's response to the plaintiff's complaint), decrees (court's decision), depositions, affidavits, correspondence, lists of heirs, deeds, plats, wills, records involving enslaved individuals, business records or vital statistics. \u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi02913#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"vi_vi02913","ead_ssi":"vi_vi02913","_root_":"vi_vi02913","_nest_parent_":"vi_vi02913","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/lva/vi02913.xml","title_ssm":["Giles County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1807-1936 (bulk 1870-1910)"],"title_tesim":["Giles County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1807-1936 (bulk 1870-1910)"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Giles County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1807-1936 (bulk 1870-1910)"],"text":["Giles County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1807-1936 (bulk 1870-1910)","Digital images; 37.125 cubic feet (82 boxes)","Chancery Causes 1807-1936 use digital images found on the Chancery Records Index available electronically at the website of the Library of Virginia.","Chancery Causes 1913-1914 are unprocessed. Contact Archives Research Services for availability.","Organized by case, of which each is assigned a unique index number comprised of the earliest year found in case and a sequentially increasing 3-digit number assigned by the processor as cases for that year are found. Arranged chronologically.","of documents within each folder are generally as follows: Bill, Answer, and Final Decree (if found.)","Chancery Causes 1913-1914 are unprocessed. Contact Archives Research Services for availability.","Context for Record Type: Chancery Causes are cases of equity. According to Black's Law Dictionary they are \"administered according to fairness as contrasted with the strictly formulated rules of common law.\" A judge, not a jury, determines the outcome of the case; however, the judge is basing the decision on findings compiled and documented by Commissioners. Chancery causes are useful when researching local history, genealogical information, and land or estate divisions. They are a valuable source of local, state, social, and legal history and serve as a primary source for understanding a locality's history. Chancery causes document the lived experiences of free and enslaved individuals; women; children; people living with physical disabilities or mental health struggles; people living in poverty; defunct institutions and corporate entities; or those that may not have otherwise left traditional written histories.","Locality History: Giles County was named for William Branch Giles, United States senator from Virginia in 1806 when the county was created from Montgomery, Monroe (now in West Virginia), and Tazewell Counties. Several subsequent additions were made from Wythe (1808), Monroe in 1829 and Mercer in 1841 (both now in West Virginia), Craig (1880), and Tazewell (1826 and 1836) counties. The county seat is Pearisburg.","Five boxes of Giles County chancery causes, which ended between 1807 and 1936, were found among Giles County judgements stored at the Library of Virginia. They were processed by C. OBrion before 2008. Additional chancery causes, the bulk of which ended between 1807 and 1914, were transferred to the library in 2010 and processed by C. Underwood and S. Bagley in 2017. Chancery Causes 1913-1914 remain unprocessed and there are currently no plans to process and index them.","Digital images of Chancery Causes 1807-1936 were generated by OCLC through the Library of Virginia's Circuit Court Records Preservation Program in 2008.","Digital images of Chancery Causes 1807-1912 were generated by Backstage Library Works through the Library of Virginia's Circuit Court Records Preservation Program in 2020.","Encoded by G. Crawford: February 2009; updated by C. Collins: January 2024.","Additional unindexed post-1913 records may be available at the Giles County Circuit Court Clerk's office.","Additional Giles County Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia web site. Consult A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.","See also: A Guide to the Ralph M. Stafford and Company Ledger, 1861-1874,” an exhibit in Giles County Chancery Cause 1870-002: James Stafford vs. Adms. of Ralph M. Stafford, etc.","Giles County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1807-1936, consists of cases concerning issues of equity brought largely by residents of the county and filed in the circuit court. These cases often involve the following actions: divisions of estates or land, disputes over wills, disputes regarding contracts, debt, divorce, and business disputes. Other less prevalent issues include freedom suits, permissions to sell property, and disputes concerning trespass. Predominant documents found in these chancery causes include bills (documents the plaintiff's complaint), answers (defendant's response to the plaintiff's complaint), decrees (court's decision), depositions, affidavits, correspondence, lists of heirs, deeds, plats, wills, records involving enslaved individuals, business records or vital statistics.","The chancery causes are primarily comprised of debt suits, the bulk of which ended between 1807 and 1912; divorces, which ended between 1857 and 1912; and estate suits, which ended between 1835 and 1912. The most frequently occurring topics include business, migration/immigration, property, women, and social conventions.","Commonly found surnames among the plaintiffs and defendants include Adair, Atkins, Bolton (also spelled Bolten), Chapman, Charlton, Davis, Echols, Epling, Farley, French, Hale, Hare, Harman, Henderson, Hoge, Huffman, Johnson, Johnston, Jones, Kirk, Lucas, Martin, Meadows, Mustard, Pack, Payne, Peck, Peters, Porterfield, Price, Shumate, Smith, Snidow, Spangler, Stafford, Straley, Taylor, Toney, Vaught, Wilburn, Williams, Wingo, Woodyard, Woolwine, and Young. The Johns Mountain Iron Company was involved in 7 suits between 1874 and 1886.","These records also contain 1 folder of “Orphan Chancery” which has been processed but not indexed. These records contain parts, often single items, of chancery causes that could not be further identified as belonging to a certain case.","There are no restrictions on use.","Library of Virginia","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Giles County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1807-1936 (bulk 1870-1910)"],"collection_ssim":["Giles County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1807-1936 (bulk 1870-1910)"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"repository_ssm":["Library of Virginia"],"repository_ssim":["Library of Virginia"],"creator_ssm":["Giles County (Va.) Circuit Court"],"creator_ssim":["Giles County (Va.) Circuit Court"],"access_terms_ssm":["There are no restrictions on use."],"acqinfo_ssim":["The bulk of the Giles County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1807-1936, came to the Library of Virginia in a transfer of court papers from Giles County (Va.) in 2010 under the accession number 45263. 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Contact Archives Research Services for availability.","Context for Record Type: Chancery Causes are cases of equity. According to Black's Law Dictionary they are \"administered according to fairness as contrasted with the strictly formulated rules of common law.\" A judge, not a jury, determines the outcome of the case; however, the judge is basing the decision on findings compiled and documented by Commissioners. Chancery causes are useful when researching local history, genealogical information, and land or estate divisions. They are a valuable source of local, state, social, and legal history and serve as a primary source for understanding a locality's history. Chancery causes document the lived experiences of free and enslaved individuals; women; children; people living with physical disabilities or mental health struggles; people living in poverty; defunct institutions and corporate entities; or those that may not have otherwise left traditional written histories.","Locality History: Giles County was named for William Branch Giles, United States senator from Virginia in 1806 when the county was created from Montgomery, Monroe (now in West Virginia), and Tazewell Counties. Several subsequent additions were made from Wythe (1808), Monroe in 1829 and Mercer in 1841 (both now in West Virginia), Craig (1880), and Tazewell (1826 and 1836) counties. The county seat is Pearisburg.","Five boxes of Giles County chancery causes, which ended between 1807 and 1936, were found among Giles County judgements stored at the Library of Virginia. They were processed by C. OBrion before 2008. 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Stafford and Company Ledger, 1861-1874,” an exhibit in Giles County Chancery Cause 1870-002: James Stafford vs. Adms. of Ralph M. Stafford, etc.","Giles County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1807-1936, consists of cases concerning issues of equity brought largely by residents of the county and filed in the circuit court. These cases often involve the following actions: divisions of estates or land, disputes over wills, disputes regarding contracts, debt, divorce, and business disputes. Other less prevalent issues include freedom suits, permissions to sell property, and disputes concerning trespass. 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Coroners' Inquisitions, 1842-1903",".","Digital images for pre-1866 coroners' inquisitions that involve enslaved and free Black and Multiracial individuals are available on the Virginia Untold: the African American Narrative web site. Please use digital images.","This collection is arranged into the following series:","Series I: Coroners Inquisitions, 1842-1903, chronological by date coroner filed inquisition in the local court.","Context for Record Type: \nA carry over from the British system, the separate office of coroner appeared in Virginia about 1660. The judicial duty of the office was to hold inquisitions in cases when persons met a sudden, violent, unnatural or suspicious death, or death without medical attendance. The law did not encourage the Coroner to be a medical professional until the 20th century, and only stipulated that the local court be responsible for the appointment. Although not reliant on profession, this system of affluent white men making the decisions largely ensured that only other white men served in this position for much of its history","Prior to the Civil War, the coroner would summon a jury of twelve white men, usually prominent citizens of that locality, to assist him in determining cause of death. The jury viewed the body of the deceased and heard the testimony of witnesses which did include both white and Black perspectives. This witness testimony was recorded and after seeing and hearing the evidence, and unlike other judicial proceedings, enslaved people could provide depositions in coroner's inquisitions, but still, an all-white jury delivered in writing to the coroner their conclusion concerning cause of death referred to as the inquisition. These causes of death would be determined by a white perspective and Black individuals were only consulted; they were never in a position to make decisions. After the Civil War, the process remained the same but the racial distinctions stipulating jury eligibility no longer remained. However, as appointments still continued and juror eligibility reserved for those \"entitled to vote and hold office,\" the authority and influence in the hands of white citizens remained throughout the late 19th and early 20th century.","In 1877, an act of the General Assembly changed the number of jurors to six, and by 1926, only the coroner determined cause of death but they could require physicians to assist them with determining cause of death. Then in 1946, the General Assembly abolished the Coroner's office/ office of Coroner's Physician altogether, appointed instead a Chief Medical Examiner, and by 1950 transitioned to a statewide Office of the Chief Medical Examiner which now lives within the Department of Health.","If a criminal act was determined to be the cause of death, the coroner delivered the guilty person to the sheriff and the inquests would be used as evidence in the criminal trial. In this case, coroner's inquisitions were filed with the trial papers. If there was not a trial, coroner's inquisitions were filed separately and are more likely to appear in this collection as a standalone set of documents.","Locality History: Giles  County was named for William Branch Giles, United States senator from Virginia in 1806 when the county was created from Montgomery, Monroe (now in West Virginia), and Tazewell Counties. 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