Westmoreland County (Va.) Records, 1693-1959

Access and use

Location of collection:
Library of Virginia
The Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Archives Reference Services
Phone: (804) 692-3888
Restrictions:

There are no restrictions.

Terms of access:

There are no restrictions.

Preferred citation:

Westmoreland County (Va.) Records, 1693-1959. Local government records collection, Westmoreland County (Va.) Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.

Summary

Extent:
53 boxes and volumes
Creator:
Westmoreland County (Va.) Circuit Court
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Westmoreland County (Va.) Records, 1693-1959. Local government records collection, Westmoreland County (Va.) Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.

Background

Scope and content:

Westmoreland County (Va.) Records, 1693-1959, includes miscellaneous records from the following series: Board of Supervisors Records; Bonds,Commissions,Oaths; Court Records; Election Records; Fiduciary Records; Land Records; Miscellaneous Records; Military and Pension Records; Public Buildings and Grounds; Road and Bridge Records; School Records; Tax and Fiscal Records; Wills.

Court Records, Fiduciary Records, Tax and Fiscal Records, and Wills.

Court Records: Executions; Tax and Fiscal Records: List of Insolvents; Levy Papers; Fiduciary Records; Inventories and Accounts; Administrator's Accounts

Deeds, affidavits, mechanics' liens, guardian bonds, powers of attorney

Crow and fox scalp certificates, abstracts of title Colonial Beach School; Judgments, Commonwealth Causes; Road Petitions; Guardian, Administrator and Executor Bonds; Sales of delinquent lands

Bonds,Oaths,Commissions: Bonds (Administrators, Guardians, Executors, Officials, Chancery Commissioners); Tax and Fiscal Records: Liquor Licenses

School Records: School Commissioners Reports, 1846-1861; Court Records: Summons to answer suggestions filed, 1856-1858; Election Records, 1850s. Accession 41894. Unprocessed.

Bonds,Commissions,Oaths: appointments and qualifications of county officers before military officer; oaths of allegeiance, 1869-1870; Tax and Fiscal Records: pedlars receipts, 1820s-1850s; Land Records: Oyster Inspector Reports, 1907-1908; deed of trust appointments, substitutions, resignations in re: Colonial Beach Improvement Company, 1887. Accession 41894. Unprocessed

Board of Supervisors Records; Election Records; Birth Records; Road and Bridge Records; Accession 41897.

Bonds,Oaths,Commissions: officials' bonds, appointments and resignations (constable, sheriff, tobacco inspector, overseer of poor, tavern, surveyor, clerks, superintendent of schools, treasurer, coroner, justice of peace, etc.), militia appointments and resignations, apprentice indentures/bonds, etc., 1897-1924; Court Records: Injunction Bonds, 1802-1824; Fiduciary Records: Adminstrators and Executors Bonds, 1790s-early 1800s; 1872-1874. Unprocessed.

Military and Pension Records: pension papers (Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War), 1806-1913, Lists of indigent families of soldiers, 1861-1865, militia fines and exemptions, 1861-1864, letter in re: military bounty land, 1816, public service claim, 1821, petition to make Civil War muster rolls official records, 1907) Public Buildings and Grounds: Architectural Drawings and Plans: clerk's office, 1822-1900, courthouse, 1824-1848, jail, 1811-1832, jail inspectors reports, 1810-1912, undated, portrait of Lord Chatham, 1821-1847, painting of George Washington, 1902, stone for Washington Monument in D.C., 1852, shade trees planted in public square, 1905, petition for a bell, undated.

Justice of the Peace Records, 1868; Election Records, 1797-1912 circa; Court Records: dockets, orders setting court dates, writs of ad quod damnum, 1783-1856; Board of Supervisors Records, 1873-1910, undated; Sheriff's Records, 1789-1822; School Records, 1873-1877, undated. Unprocessed.

Military and Pension Records: Military Discharge of Charles Poore, 1762; Fiduciary Records: Inventory of James Degges, 1778, Inventory of James Washington, 1782, Guardian settlement of Elijah Moore, 1787; Road and Bridge Rcords: Report of road petition, 1780; Tax and Fiscal Records: Slave Patrol Accounts, 1780; Land Records: Survey and division of the estate of Willoughby Newton, 1823, 1846; Court Records: Exhibits and bonds, 1784-1850. Accession numbers 33162f, 33503, 34602

Box 1 includes Will of Richard Lee (1795); lists of slaves emancipated by Robert Carter (1790s)

Bonds,Oaths,Commissions: Coroner's Appointment, 1851; Slave patrol commissions, 1812-1857; Tax and Fiscal Records: Slave patrol accounts submitted for payment, 1776-1850

Biographical / historical:

Westmoreland County was named for the English county. It was formed from Northumberland County in 1653. The county seat is Montross.

Acquisition information:
A portion of these records came to the Library of Virginia in shipments of court papers from Westmoreland County under the accession numbers 33162f, 33503, 34602, 41894 and 41897.
Physical location:
Library of Virginia