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Fulkerson married Selina Johnson of Clarksville,\n         Tennessee, in 1862, and they had nine children.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Abram Fulkerson was born on 13 May 1834 in Washington\n         County, Virginia, to Abram Fulkerson (1789-1859) and Margaret\n         Laughlin Vance (1796-1864). He graduated from the Virginia\n         Military Institute in 1857 and taught school in Palmyra,\n         Virginia, and Rogersville, Tennessee. When the Civil War\n         began, Fulkerson enlisted in the 19th Tennessee Infantry and\n         became a major. He helped organize the 63rd Tennessee and\n         became its colonel. Fulkerson was wounded at the battles of\n         Shiloh and Chickamauga. Wounded at the siege of Petersburg, he\n         was captured and held prisoner for the rest of the war. After\n         the Civil War ended, Fulkerson moved to Goodson, later\n         Bristol, Virginia, and became a lawyer. He emerged as a\n         leading figure in the Readjuster Party which favored a\n         scaling-down of Virginia's bonded indebtedness following the\n         War. He served in the House of Delegates from Washington\n         County from 1871 to 1875 and 1885 to 1887. Fulkerson\n         represented Washington and Smyth Counties in the Virginia\n         State Senate from 1877 to 1880. He served in the U.S. House of\n         Representatives from 1881-1883. Fulkerson died in Bristol,\n         Virginia 17 December 1902 and was buried in East Hill\n         Cemetery. Fulkerson married Selina Johnson of Clarksville,\n         Tennessee, in 1862, and they had nine children."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAbram Fulkerson. Papers, 1879. Accession 13750. Personal\n            papers collection. The Library of Virginia, Richmond,\n            Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Abram Fulkerson. Papers, 1879. Accession 13750. Personal\n            papers collection. The Library of Virginia, Richmond,\n            Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1879, of Abram Fulkerson (1834-1902) of Washington\n         County, Virginia, and member of the Virginia State Senate for\n         Washington and Smyth Counties, consisting of: notes on\n         speeches delivered 19 and 20 February 1879 in the Virginia\n         Senate regarding the \"Broker's Bill\" which dealt with\n         Virginia's public debt; notes by Fulkerson made for use in\n         speeches on Virginia's public debt; \"notes on Conference with\n         [Hugh] McCulloch, [Charles M.] Frye, etc., 1879\" concerning\n         the state's unfunded debt; and memorandum regarding the\n         defection of delegates Samuel H. Moffett of Rockingham County,\n         Virginia, Isaac C. Fowler of Washington County, and H. 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(2 boxes); 3 volumes; 5 microfilm reels; 1 item","IN PROGRESS: Accomack County (Va.) Apprenticeship Indentures, 1744, 1786-1796, 1820-1872, involving white and Black and multiracial individuals are digitized and available through  Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative Digital Collection  on the Library of Virginia website. Please use digital images.\n","The Accomack County (Va.) Apprentice Indentures, 1786-1795, is available on microfilm, Accomack County (Va.) Reel No. 193. \n","The Accomack County (Va.) Apprentice Indentures, 1798-1820, is available on microfilm, Accomack County (Va.) Reel No. 127 and 199.","The Accomack County (Va.) Apprentice Indentures, 1820-1835, is available on microfilm, Accomack County (Va.) Reel No. 127 and 142.","The Accomack County (Va.) Apprentice Indentures, 1835-1859, is available on microfilm, Accomack County (Va.) Reel No. 345.","The Accomack County (Va.) Apprentice Indentures, 1850-1872, is available on microfilm, Accomack County (Va.) Reel No. 345.","This collection is arranged:\n Series I: Bound and Loose Apprenticeship Indentures, 1786-1796, 1820-1872, arranged chronologically. Series II: Records Related to Apprenticeship Indentures, 1744, 1786-1865, arranged chronologically.","Arranged chronologically\n","Arranged chronologically\n","Context for Record Type:  In 1765, the General Assembly established that illegitimate children of \"woman servants, Negroes, white women by Negroes were to be bound out\" until the age of 21 for males and 18 for females. In the late eighteenth century, the General Assembly established the Overseers of the Poor, an appointed body that provided food, clothing, shelter, and medical treatment for people who were too poor to support themselves or too ill to provide for their basic needs. They also bound out children whose parents could not support them and those who were orphaned through apprenticeship contracts. These agreements arranged for white children to be taught a trade or domestic skills as well as educated in reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1805, the General Assembly amended the previous act to no longer require the master of \"black or mulatto orphans\" to teach reading, writing, or arithmetic, with the intent that this would prevent Black children from learning these skills.\n","Locality History:  Accomack County was named for the Accomac Indians, who lived on the Eastern Shore at the time of the first English settlement in Virginia. The word means “on-the-other-side-of-water place” or \"across the water.\" It was one of the original eight shires, or counties, first enumerated in 1634 and spelled Accomac without the k. The county's name was changed to Northampton County in 1643. The present county was formed from Northampton about 1663. In October 1670, the General Assembly temporarily reunited Accomack and Northampton Counties as Northampton County. In November 1673, Accomack County was again separated from Northampton. In early records, the county’s name was spelled many ways. In 1940 the General Assembly adopted the present spelling, Accomack. The county gained a small part of the southern end of Smith’s Island from Somerset County, Maryland, in 1879, after the United States had approved boundary changes between Virginia and Maryland that had been agreed to in 1877. The county seat is Accomac. \n","Lost Locality Note:  A significant number of loose records from the 1700s suffered extreme water and pest damage. Volumes that record deeds, court orders, and wills exist.","One Accomack County certificate, dated 1744, was originally described as part of the Accomack County (Va.) Free and Enslaved Records, 1758, 1799-1861, but was removed to the present Accomack County (Va.) Apprenticeship Indentures, 1744, 1786-1796, 1820-1872, record to enhance discoverability in October 2024. \n","The Accomack County (Va.) Reel No. 345 was generated by Backstage Library Works though the Library of Virginia's Circuit Court Records Preservation Program at an unknown date. Additional microfilm reels (Reel No. 127, 142, 193, and 199) were generated at an unknown date. ","These records were scanned and indexed by E. Jordan and LVA staff for the purposes of digitizing them for the digital project Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative at an unknown date.","Encoded by L. Jones: March 2010; Updated by C. Collins: October 2024.","See also:  Accomack County (Va.) Free and Enslaved Records, 1758, 1799-1861","Records related to free and enslaved people of Accomack County (Va.) and other localities are available through the  Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative Digital Collection  on the Library of Virginia website.","Additional Accomack County (Va.) 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.\" ","Accomack County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Accomack County Records may be found in the  Lost Records Localities Digital Collection  available on the Library of Virginia website.","Accomack County (Va.) Apprenticeship Indentures, 1744, 1786-1796, 1820-1872, consist of contracts or agreements binding out white, Black, or multiracial children, sometimes those who were orphaned, to learn a particular trade or craft. These indentures may be written agreements between the family of the apprentice and those responsible for the indentured. In many cases this includes the direct involvement of the Overseers of the Poor. They typically contain the name of the person or institution binding out, the person to whom bound, the name of the person being indentured, the length of the apprenticeship, and the responsibilities of the person taking on the indenture.\n","These records are comprised of three bound volumes, 1820-1872; loose apprenticeship indentures, 1786-1796, 1835-1862; and various records related to apprenticeship indentures, 1744, 1846-1865.","The first volume, 1820-1835, is comprised of about 201 apprenticeship indentures. All of the indentures are standardized forms with the relevant information handwritten in the spaces provided.","The second volume, 1850-1872, consists of around 114 apprenticeship indentures. Many of the indentures of accompanied by bonds. Some indentures are entirely handwritten and attached to pages in the volume, while others are standardized forms with the relevant information handwritten in the spaces provided.","The third volume, 1835-1859, contains about 104 apprenticeship indentures. All of the indentures are standardized forms with the relevant information handwritten in the spaces provided.","The loose apprenticeship indentures, 1786-1796, 1835-1862, are comprised of 21 original indentures, 1786-1796, 1851-1856; four folders of facsimile indentures from the bound volumes, 1835-1862; and one folder of indenture templates, 1786-1796. The original indentures include the indentures of 17 white individuals, as well as the indentures of five Black and multiracial individuals: Isaac, identified as a “black free boy,” to George Marshall, 1789; Mary and John Gaskins to Elijah W. Wright, 1851; Olivia Drummond to William H. Bayne, 1852; and Julia A. Selby to James Johnson, 1856.","Additionally, these records consist of various record types, 1744, 1846-1865, related to apprenticeship indentures. These records include accounts, bonds, certificates, and orders, in which the person bound, or in the process of being bound, is named. They also contain such information as the name of the person to whom each individual was bound and the name of the person binding the apprentice(s). For example, a certificate, 1744, records the “free consent” given by Sarah Aleworth for Jacob Aleworth, her son, to be bound to Moses Killiam until the age of 21.","There are no restrictions.\n","Library of Virginia\n","English\n"],"collection_title_tesim":["Accomack County (Va.) Apprenticeship Indentures\n1744, 1786-1796, 1820-1872"],"collection_ssim":["Accomack County (Va.) Apprenticeship Indentures\n1744, 1786-1796, 1820-1872"],"repository_ssm":["Library of Virginia"],"repository_ssim":["Library of Virginia"],"creator_ssm":["Accomack County (Va.) 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In 1940 the General Assembly adopted the present spelling, Accomack. The county gained a small part of the southern end of Smith’s Island from Somerset County, Maryland, in 1879, after the United States had approved boundary changes between Virginia and Maryland that had been agreed to in 1877. The county seat is Accomac. \n","Lost Locality Note:  A significant number of loose records from the 1700s suffered extreme water and pest damage. Volumes that record deeds, court orders, and wills exist."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAccomack County (Va.) Apprenticeship Indentures, 1744, 1786-1796, 1820-1872. Local government records collection, Accomack County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Accomack County (Va.) Apprenticeship Indentures, 1744, 1786-1796, 1820-1872. Local government records collection, Accomack County Court Records. 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All of the indentures are standardized forms with the relevant information handwritten in the spaces provided.","The second volume, 1850-1872, consists of around 114 apprenticeship indentures. Many of the indentures of accompanied by bonds. Some indentures are entirely handwritten and attached to pages in the volume, while others are standardized forms with the relevant information handwritten in the spaces provided.","The third volume, 1835-1859, contains about 104 apprenticeship indentures. All of the indentures are standardized forms with the relevant information handwritten in the spaces provided.","The loose apprenticeship indentures, 1786-1796, 1835-1862, are comprised of 21 original indentures, 1786-1796, 1851-1856; four folders of facsimile indentures from the bound volumes, 1835-1862; and one folder of indenture templates, 1786-1796. The original indentures include the indentures of 17 white individuals, as well as the indentures of five Black and multiracial individuals: Isaac, identified as a “black free boy,” to George Marshall, 1789; Mary and John Gaskins to Elijah W. Wright, 1851; Olivia Drummond to William H. Bayne, 1852; and Julia A. Selby to James Johnson, 1856.","Additionally, these records consist of various record types, 1744, 1846-1865, related to apprenticeship indentures. These records include accounts, bonds, certificates, and orders, in which the person bound, or in the process of being bound, is named. They also contain such information as the name of the person to whom each individual was bound and the name of the person binding the apprentice(s). 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Apprentice Indentures, 1820-1835, is available on microfilm, Accomack County (Va.) Reel No. 127 and 142.","The Accomack County (Va.) Apprentice Indentures, 1835-1859, is available on microfilm, Accomack County (Va.) Reel No. 345.","The Accomack County (Va.) Apprentice Indentures, 1850-1872, is available on microfilm, Accomack County (Va.) Reel No. 345.","This collection is arranged:\n Series I: Bound and Loose Apprenticeship Indentures, 1786-1796, 1820-1872, arranged chronologically. Series II: Records Related to Apprenticeship Indentures, 1744, 1786-1865, arranged chronologically.","Arranged chronologically\n","Arranged chronologically\n","Context for Record Type:  In 1765, the General Assembly established that illegitimate children of \"woman servants, Negroes, white women by Negroes were to be bound out\" until the age of 21 for males and 18 for females. In the late eighteenth century, the General Assembly established the Overseers of the Poor, an appointed body that provided food, clothing, shelter, and medical treatment for people who were too poor to support themselves or too ill to provide for their basic needs. They also bound out children whose parents could not support them and those who were orphaned through apprenticeship contracts. These agreements arranged for white children to be taught a trade or domestic skills as well as educated in reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1805, the General Assembly amended the previous act to no longer require the master of \"black or mulatto orphans\" to teach reading, writing, or arithmetic, with the intent that this would prevent Black children from learning these skills.\n","Locality History:  Accomack County was named for the Accomac Indians, who lived on the Eastern Shore at the time of the first English settlement in Virginia. The word means “on-the-other-side-of-water place” or \"across the water.\" It was one of the original eight shires, or counties, first enumerated in 1634 and spelled Accomac without the k. The county's name was changed to Northampton County in 1643. The present county was formed from Northampton about 1663. In October 1670, the General Assembly temporarily reunited Accomack and Northampton Counties as Northampton County. In November 1673, Accomack County was again separated from Northampton. In early records, the county’s name was spelled many ways. In 1940 the General Assembly adopted the present spelling, Accomack. The county gained a small part of the southern end of Smith’s Island from Somerset County, Maryland, in 1879, after the United States had approved boundary changes between Virginia and Maryland that had been agreed to in 1877. The county seat is Accomac. \n","Lost Locality Note:  A significant number of loose records from the 1700s suffered extreme water and pest damage. Volumes that record deeds, court orders, and wills exist.","One Accomack County certificate, dated 1744, was originally described as part of the Accomack County (Va.) Free and Enslaved Records, 1758, 1799-1861, but was removed to the present Accomack County (Va.) Apprenticeship Indentures, 1744, 1786-1796, 1820-1872, record to enhance discoverability in October 2024. \n","The Accomack County (Va.) Reel No. 345 was generated by Backstage Library Works though the Library of Virginia's Circuit Court Records Preservation Program at an unknown date. Additional microfilm reels (Reel No. 127, 142, 193, and 199) were generated at an unknown date. ","These records were scanned and indexed by E. Jordan and LVA staff for the purposes of digitizing them for the digital project Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative at an unknown date.","Encoded by L. Jones: March 2010; Updated by C. Collins: October 2024.","See also:  Accomack County (Va.) Free and Enslaved Records, 1758, 1799-1861","Records related to free and enslaved people of Accomack County (Va.) and other localities are available through the  Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative Digital Collection  on the Library of Virginia website.","Additional Accomack County (Va.) 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.\" ","Accomack County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Accomack County Records may be found in the  Lost Records Localities Digital Collection  available on the Library of Virginia website.","Accomack County (Va.) Apprenticeship Indentures, 1744, 1786-1796, 1820-1872, consist of contracts or agreements binding out white, Black, or multiracial children, sometimes those who were orphaned, to learn a particular trade or craft. These indentures may be written agreements between the family of the apprentice and those responsible for the indentured. In many cases this includes the direct involvement of the Overseers of the Poor. They typically contain the name of the person or institution binding out, the person to whom bound, the name of the person being indentured, the length of the apprenticeship, and the responsibilities of the person taking on the indenture.\n","These records are comprised of three bound volumes, 1820-1872; loose apprenticeship indentures, 1786-1796, 1835-1862; and various records related to apprenticeship indentures, 1744, 1846-1865.","The first volume, 1820-1835, is comprised of about 201 apprenticeship indentures. All of the indentures are standardized forms with the relevant information handwritten in the spaces provided.","The second volume, 1850-1872, consists of around 114 apprenticeship indentures. Many of the indentures of accompanied by bonds. 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These indentures may be written agreements between the family of the apprentice and those responsible for the indentured. In many cases this includes the direct involvement of the Overseers of the Poor. They typically contain the name of the person or institution binding out, the person to whom bound, the name of the person being indentured, the length of the apprenticeship, and the responsibilities of the person taking on the indenture.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese records are comprised of three bound volumes, 1820-1872; loose apprenticeship indentures, 1786-1796, 1835-1862; and various records related to apprenticeship indentures, 1744, 1846-1865.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe first volume, 1820-1835, is comprised of about 201 apprenticeship indentures. All of the indentures are standardized forms with the relevant information handwritten in the spaces provided.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second volume, 1850-1872, consists of around 114 apprenticeship indentures. 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All of the indentures are standardized forms with the relevant information handwritten in the spaces provided.","The second volume, 1850-1872, consists of around 114 apprenticeship indentures. Many of the indentures of accompanied by bonds. Some indentures are entirely handwritten and attached to pages in the volume, while others are standardized forms with the relevant information handwritten in the spaces provided.","The third volume, 1835-1859, contains about 104 apprenticeship indentures. All of the indentures are standardized forms with the relevant information handwritten in the spaces provided.","The loose apprenticeship indentures, 1786-1796, 1835-1862, are comprised of 21 original indentures, 1786-1796, 1851-1856; four folders of facsimile indentures from the bound volumes, 1835-1862; and one folder of indenture templates, 1786-1796. The original indentures include the indentures of 17 white individuals, as well as the indentures of five Black and multiracial individuals: Isaac, identified as a “black free boy,” to George Marshall, 1789; Mary and John Gaskins to Elijah W. Wright, 1851; Olivia Drummond to William H. Bayne, 1852; and Julia A. Selby to James Johnson, 1856.","Additionally, these records consist of various record types, 1744, 1846-1865, related to apprenticeship indentures. These records include accounts, bonds, certificates, and orders, in which the person bound, or in the process of being bound, is named. They also contain such information as the name of the person to whom each individual was bound and the name of the person binding the apprentice(s). 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The present county was formed from Northampton about 1663. In October 1670, the General Assembly temporarily reunited Accomack and Northampton Counties as Northampton County. In November 1673, Accomack County was again separated from Northampton. In early records, the county's name was spelled many ways. In 1940 the General Assembly adopted the present spelling, Accomack. The county gained a small part of the southern end of Smith's Island from Somerset County, Maryland, in 1879, after the United States had approved boundary changes between Virginia and Maryland that had been agreed to in 1877. The county seat is Accomac.\n","A significant number of loose records from the 1700s suffered extreme water and pest damage. Volumes that record deeds, court orders, and wills exist.","Laws requiring the recording of births and deaths in Virginia were enacted as early as 1632, when a law directed ministers or churchwardens in each parish to present a \"register of all burialls, christenings, and marriages\" yearly at the June meeting of the court. A similar act passed in 1659 stated that \"enquiries are often made for persons imported into the collonie, of whose death no positive certificate can be granted for want of registers.\" Few records survive from these early decades.","In 1713, the General Assembly noted that earlier acts had \"for a long time been disused\" and once again directed the recording of births and deaths by the minister or clerk of each parish. A return made the same year noted that the list of births and deaths was not complete since many parishes failed to make returns \"for tis a thing so new to the people that neither they care to Register their Births and Burials, nor are the Parish Clerks yet brought into a regular method of transmitting them.\"","The recording of vital statistics continued to be an ecclesiastical function throughout the colonial period. With the disestablishment of the Anglican church after the American Revolution and the rise of other religious denominations, the record-keeping process for vital statistics fell more and more to the individual family. By the mid-nineteenth century, however, medical science began to recognize the advantages of accurate birth and mortality information in controlling and treating communicable diseases. Pressure from local and national health organizations and medical professionals resulted in the passage of vital statistics registration laws. 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The law went into effect on 1 July 1853, and continued until 1896, when an economy-conscious legislature repealed the recording provisions.","There was no statewide recording of births and deaths between 1896 and 1912. Several metropolitan areas continued to keep records of births and deaths for all or part of the period between 1896 and 1912. Systematic statewide registration began again in June 1912.","Accomack County Vital Statistic Records can be obtained through the  Virginia Department of Health.","Additional Accomack County Vital Statistic Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia web site. Consult  A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.","Accomack County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Accomack County Records may be found in the Virginia Lost Records Localities Collection at the Library of Virginia. 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In October 1670, the General Assembly temporarily reunited Accomack and Northampton Counties as Northampton County. In November 1673, Accomack County was again separated from Northampton. In early records, the county's name was spelled many ways. In 1940 the General Assembly adopted the present spelling, Accomack. The county gained a small part of the southern end of Smith's Island from Somerset County, Maryland, in 1879, after the United States had approved boundary changes between Virginia and Maryland that had been agreed to in 1877. The county seat is Accomac.\n","A significant number of loose records from the 1700s suffered extreme water and pest damage. Volumes that record deeds, court orders, and wills exist.","Laws requiring the recording of births and deaths in Virginia were enacted as early as 1632, when a law directed ministers or churchwardens in each parish to present a \"register of all burialls, christenings, and marriages\" yearly at the June meeting of the court. A similar act passed in 1659 stated that \"enquiries are often made for persons imported into the collonie, of whose death no positive certificate can be granted for want of registers.\" Few records survive from these early decades.","In 1713, the General Assembly noted that earlier acts had \"for a long time been disused\" and once again directed the recording of births and deaths by the minister or clerk of each parish. A return made the same year noted that the list of births and deaths was not complete since many parishes failed to make returns \"for tis a thing so new to the people that neither they care to Register their Births and Burials, nor are the Parish Clerks yet brought into a regular method of transmitting them.\"","The recording of vital statistics continued to be an ecclesiastical function throughout the colonial period. 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The commissioner recorded births and deaths that had occurred prior to 31 December of the preceding year and returned the record to the clerk of court by 1 June. Information was obtained from heads of family, physicians, surgeons, or coroners. The law imposed penalties for failing to furnish or collect the information.","The clerk of court in each locality entered the information supplied by the commissioner into registers and prepared an accompanying alphabetical index. A copy of each register was forwarded to the Auditor of Public Accounts. The law went into effect on 1 July 1853, and continued until 1896, when an economy-conscious legislature repealed the recording provisions.","There was no statewide recording of births and deaths between 1896 and 1912. Several metropolitan areas continued to keep records of births and deaths for all or part of the period between 1896 and 1912. 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According to Section 3 of the act \"every slave imported into this commonwealth contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, shall upon such importation become free.\" By this clause, those enslaved people who were brought into Virginia illegally could pursue their freedom in the local courts. \n","Locality History:  Accomack County was named for the Accomac Indians, who lived on the Eastern Shore at the time of the first English settlement in Virginia. The word means \"on-the-other-side-of-water place\" or \"across the water.\" It was one of the original eight shires, or counties, first enumerated in 1634 and spelled Accomac without the k. The county's name was changed to Northampton County in 1643. The present county was formed from Northampton about 1663. In October 1670, the General Assembly temporarily reunited Accomack and Northampton Counties as Northampton County. In November 1673, Accomack County was again separated from Northampton. In early records, the county's name was spelled many ways. In 1940 the General Assembly adopted the present spelling, Accomack. The county gained a small part of the southern end of Smith's Island from Somerset County, Maryland, in 1879, after the United States had approved boundary changes between Virginia and Maryland that had been agreed to in 1877. The county seat is Accomac.\n","Lost Locality Note:  A significant number of loose records from the 1700s suffered extreme water and pest damage. Volumes that record deeds, court orders, and wills exist.\n","Accomack County Certificates of Importation were originally described as part of the Accomack County (Va.) Free and Enslaved Records, 1758, 1799-1861, but were removed to the present Accomack County (Va.) 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The enslavers include Charles Beard, Matthew Beard, John Marchant, George Merrill, Rachel Cowles, Jacob Boston, Samuel Holland, Colmore (or Colmon) Bayne, and John Massey.\n","The records also consist of the following certificates: 1799, of Joseph Crocket, who moved from Maryland to Accomack County with Rachel (or Rachil), Nell, and Phillis; 1801, of Custis Jenkins, who brought Leah into Accomack County from Maryland; 1813, of Lemuel Hall, who brought Tamar (20), M[illegible] (5), and Esther (2) into Accomack County; 1814, of Rachel R. Bayley, who removed Sarah (13) to Accomack County from Baltimore; 1814, of James Gibbons, who brought Rachel (7) into Accomack County from Maryland; 1814, of Benjamin Cluff, who removed Levin (37 or 38) and David (16) to Accomack County from Maryland; 1814, of Stephen J. 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The word means \"on-the-other-side-of-water place\" or \"across the water.\" It was one of the original eight shires, or counties, first enumerated in 1634 and spelled Accomac without the k. The county's name was changed to Northampton County in 1643. The present county was formed from Northampton about 1663. In October 1670, the General Assembly temporarily reunited Accomack and Northampton Counties as Northampton County. In November 1673, Accomack County was again separated from Northampton. In early records, the county's name was spelled many ways. In 1940 the General Assembly adopted the present spelling, Accomack. The county gained a small part of the southern end of Smith's Island from Somerset County, Maryland, in 1879, after the United States had approved boundary changes between Virginia and Maryland that had been agreed to in 1877. The county seat is Accomac.\n","Lost Locality Note:  A significant number of loose records from the 1700s suffered extreme water and pest damage. 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The enslaved person is sometimes named, but not always, and occasionally information is given as to age, birthdate, and the state from which the individuals were moving. According to Section 3 of the act \"every slave imported into this commonwealth contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, shall upon such importation become free.\" By this clause, those enslaved people who were brought into Virginia illegally could pursue their freedom in the local courts. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLocality History:\u003c/emph\u003e Accomack County was named for the Accomac Indians, who lived on the Eastern Shore at the time of the first English settlement in Virginia. The word means \"on-the-other-side-of-water place\" or \"across the water.\" It was one of the original eight shires, or counties, first enumerated in 1634 and spelled Accomac without the k. The county's name was changed to Northampton County in 1643. 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