Powhatan County (Va.) Fiduciary Records 1770-1934

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Location of collection:
Library of Virginia
The Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219
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POC: Archives Reference Services
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Preferred citation:

Powhatan County (Va.) Fiduciary Records, 1770-1934. Local government records collection, Powhatan County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.

Summary

Creator:
Powhatan County (Va.) Circuit Court.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Powhatan County (Va.) Fiduciary Records, 1770-1934. Local government records collection, Powhatan County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.

Background

Scope and content:

Powhatan County (Va.) Fiduciary Records, 1770-1934, include miscellaneous records filed in a local court by trustees, administrators, executors, guardians, and committees that related to the performance of their duties managing a person's estate. These records typically include the following; bonds, appraisements, audits, inventories, accounts, estate divisions, settlements, dowery records, etc. Information related to enslaved people are commonly found in these records.

Contains accounts, inventories, appraisals, bonds, guardian bonds

Fiduciary Records, 1770-1817, (bulk 1812-1817), circa: accounts, inventories, appraisals, bonds, guardian bonds (unprocessed)

Fiduciary Records, 1817-1821, circa: accounts, inventories, appraisals, bonds, guardian bonds; unprocessed

Fiduciary Records, 1830-1867, circa: accounts, inventories, appraisals, bonds, guardian bonds; unprocessed

Fiduciary Records, 1856-1871, circa: accounts, inventories, appraisals, bonds, guardian bonds; unprocessed

Fiduciary Records include miscellaneous records filed in a local court by trustees, administrators, executors, guardians, and committees that related to the performance of their duties managing a person's estate. These records typically include the following; bonds, appraisements, audits, inventories, accounts, estate divisions, settlements, dowery records, etc. Information related to enslaved people are commonly found in these records.

Fiduciary Records include miscellaneous records filed in a local court by trustees, administrators, executors, guardians, and committees that related to the performance of their duties managing a person's estate. These records typically include the following; bonds, appraisements, audits, inventories, accounts, estate divisions, settlements, dowery records, etc. Information related to enslaved people are commonly found in these records.

Fiduciary Records include miscellaneous records filed in a local court by trustees, administrators, executors, guardians, and committees that related to the performance of their duties managing a person's estate. These records typically include the following; bonds, appraisements, audits, inventories, accounts, estate divisions, settlements, dowery records, etc. Information related to enslaved people are commonly found in these records.

Fiduciary Records include miscellaneous records filed in a local court by trustees, administrators, executors, guardians, and committees that related to the performance of their duties managing a person's estate. These records typically include the following; bonds, appraisements, audits, inventories, accounts, estate divisions, settlements, dowery records, etc. Information related to enslaved people are commonly found in these records.

Fiduciary Records include miscellaneous records filed in a local court by trustees, administrators, executors, guardians, and committees that related to the performance of their duties managing a person's estate. These records typically include the following; bonds, appraisements, audits, inventories, accounts, estate divisions, settlements, dowery records, etc. Information related to enslaved people are commonly found in these records.

Fiduciary Records include miscellaneous records filed in a local court by trustees, administrators, executors, guardians, and committees that related to the performance of their duties managing a person's estate. These records typically include the following; bonds, appraisements, audits, inventories, accounts, estate divisions, settlements, dowery records, etc. Information related to enslaved people are commonly found in these records.

Fiduciary Records include miscellaneous records filed in a local court by trustees, administrators, executors, guardians, and committees that related to the performance of their duties managing a person's estate. These records typically include the following; bonds, appraisements, audits, inventories, accounts, estate divisions, settlements, dowery records, etc. Information related to enslaved people are commonly found in these records.

Fiduciary Records include miscellaneous records filed in a local court by trustees, administrators, executors, guardians, and committees that related to the performance of their duties managing a person's estate. These records typically include the following; bonds, appraisements, audits, inventories, accounts, estate divisions, settlements, dowery records, etc. Information related to enslaved people are commonly found in these records.

Fiduciary Records, 1850-1867: accounts, inventories, appraisals, reports; includes a plat of land of John Spear's children, 1867

Fiduciary Records include miscellaneous records filed in a local court by trustees, administrators, executors, guardians, and committees that related to the performance of their duties managing a person's estate. These records typically include the following; bonds, appraisements, audits, inventories, accounts, estate divisions, settlements, dowery records, etc. Information related to enslaved people are commonly found in these records.

Fiduciary Records, 1816-1824: inventories and appraisements, bonds, orders, accounts and sales, reports, assignments of dower (includes plat of Sarah Matthews, dower, 1824); divisions of land and slaves

Biographical / historical:

Powhatan County was named for the paramount chief of the Powhatan Indians in the tidewater of Virginia in the late sixteenth and early years of the seventeenth century. It was formed from Cumberland County in 1777, and part of Chesterfield County was added in 1850.

Acquisition information:
These items came to the Library of Virginia in a transfer of court records from Powhatan County.
Physical location:
Library of Virginia
Physical description:
16.1 cu.ft. (34 boxes)