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Norfolk County (Va.) Road and Bridge Records, 1719-1925

Chesapeake (Va.) Circuit Court.

Norfolk County (Va.) Road and Bridge Records, 1719-1925, consist of the following records: road petitions include orders, reports, and plats if filed with petitions; road applications; road reports include orders if filed with reports and commissioner's reports; road orders not filed with reports or petitions; road accounts include payments and claims; road overseer records include papers related to overseers, viewers, and surveyors such as petitions, applications, orders, communication to courts, appointments, resignations, and bonds; road hand records; medical excuses from road work; jury records related to roads; miscellaneous road records include orders of publication, court correspondence related to roads, writs of ad quod damnum, petitions for writs of mandamus, builder's bonds, plats, receipts, summons, contracts, road commissioner appointments, petitions for road trustees, road fines collected, board of supervisor papers related to roads, turnpike and drawbridge company papers; bridge records include petitions, memorials, communication from bridge companies, commissioner's reports, papers relating to causeways, papers relating to mill dams, reports, and orders; ferry records include petitions; orders; reports; leases and contracts; accounts; appraisements; papers related to Federal interests in ferry operations; receipts; communication from agents, superintendents, ferry committee, neighboring localities; drain records include various records relating to drain requests; and dock, wharf, landing, and harbor records.

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