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Westmoreland County (Va.) Records, 1693-1959. Local government records collection, Westmoreland County (Va.) Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.
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.
Westmoreland County was named for the English county. It was formed from Northumberland County in 1653. The county seat is Montross.
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.
Additional Westmoreland County Records can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. Consult
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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