PUBLIC "-//Library of Virginia//TEXT (US::Vi::vi04289::A Guide to the Prince Edward County (Va.) County Court Records, 1760-1904)//EN" "vi04289.xml" A Guide to the Prince Edward County (Va.) County Court Records, 1760-1904 Prince Edward County (Va.) County Court Records, 1760-1904 1044956, 1119392-1119398, 1119400-1119427, 1119429-1119436, 1119446, 1119449, 1119451 Catherine G. OBrion Library of Virginia ©2010 By The Library of Virginia. All Rights Reserved.

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Machine-readable finding aid derived from being created directly into EAD, created by Catherine G. OBrion, 09 December 2010 Description is in English 2013-11-21 Converted to schema conforming EAD by dtd2schema.vh.xsl. A Guide to the Prince Edward County (Va.) County Court Records, 1760-1904 A Collection in the Library of Virginia 1044956, 1119392-1119398, 1119400-1119427, 1119429-1119436, 1119446, 1119449, 1119451 Catherine G. OBrion

Library of Virginia 2010 LVA staff Library of Virginia Descriptive Summary The Library of Virginia Prince Edward County (Va.) County Court Records, 1760-1904 1044956, 1119392-1119398, 1119400-1119427, 1119429-1119436, 1119446, 1119449, 1119451 47.00 cu. ft. (47 boxes) English Prince Edward County (Va.) Circuit Court Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

Prince Edward County (Va.) County Court Records, 1760-1904. Local government records collection, Prince Edward County (Va.) County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.

Acquisition Information

These items came to the Library of Virginia in transfers of court papers from Prince Edward County under the accession number 36278.

Historical Information

Prince Edward County was named in honor of Edward Augustus, a son of Prince Frederick Louis, a grandson of George II, and a younger brother of George III. The county was formed from Amelia County in 1753. The county seat is Farmville.

Scope and Content

Prince Edward County (Va.) County Court Records, 1760-1904, consist of various record types recorded in the county court. They include judgments, commonwealth causes, road and bridge records, land records, tax and fiscal records, election records, fiduciary records, jury records, overseer of the poor records, election records, health and medical records, bonds/commissions/oaths, justice of the peace records, public buildings and grounds records, school records, clerks' records, court finance records, and miscellaneous records. Not every kind of record exists for every year.

Chancery causes, coroners' inquisitions, deeds, election records, free negro and slave records, a memorial resolution to John Randolph, 1833, and a plat of the town of Farmville, 1804, were removed from these records and processed separately.

Index Terms Corporate Names: Prince Edward County (Va.). Circuit Court. Subjects: Public records -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County. Geographical Names: Prince Edward County (Va.) -- History. Genre and Form Terms: Bonds (legal records) -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County. Boards (organizations) -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County. Fiduciary records -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County. Judicial records -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County. Local government records -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County. Miscellaneous records -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County. Overseer of the poor records -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County. School records -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County. Tax and fiscal records -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County. Added Entry - Corporate Name: Prince Edward County (Va.) County Court.