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Machine-readable finding aid derived from MARC record, created by Greg Crawford, 28 February 2018 Description is in English 2014-02-03 Converted to schema conforming EAD by dtd2schema.vh.xsl. A Guide to the Warwick County (Va.) Records, 1646-1914 A Collection in the Library of Virginia 0007417689 Greg Crawford

Library of Virginia 2018 Library of Virginia staff Library of Virginia Descriptive Summary The Library of Virginia Warwick County (Va.) Records, 1646-1914 0007417689 Library of Virginia 1 box (photocopies) English Newport News (Va.) Circuit Court. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

Warwick County (Va.) Records, 1646-1914. Local government records collection, Warwick County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219.

Acquisition Information

These items came to the Library of Virginia in a transfer under the accession numbers 20024, 20025, 20026, 20027, 20028, 20029, 20030, 20031, 20032, 20606, 20607, 21314, 22571, 28729, and 34287.

Historical Information

Warwick County was named either for Robert Rich, earl of Warwick, a prominent member of the London Company, or for the county of Warwick in England. The county was originally called Warwick River and was one of the original shires, or counties, first enumerated in 1634. The shorter name was adopted in 1643. Warwick County became extinct in 1952, when it became the city of Warwick. The new city was consolidated with the city of Newport News in 1958 and took the latter's name. Denbigh was the county seat.

County court records were destroyed at several times with most destruction occurring during the Civil War. The clerk's office was burned on 15 December 1864. County court minute books and loose records from 1787 to 1819 were destroyed by the fire. Additional records were burned in Richmond on 3 April 1865, where they had been moved for safekeeping during the Civil War.

Scope and Content

Warwick County (Va.) Records, 1646-1914, include photocopies of county court orders, docket book, pages from order books, judgments, deeds, wills and other miscellaneous court records. Information found in order book and pages from order books include deeds, wills, estate inventories, and summary of suits heard in county court.

The collection includes copies of correspondence dated 1914 between the clerk of Warwick County and two individuals from Philadelphia, PA regarding the return of some of the records found in this collection to Warwick County.

Adjunct Descriptive Data Related Material

See Lost Records Localities Digital Collection available at Virginia Memory.

For more information and a listing of Lost Records Localities see Lost Records research note.