PUBLIC "-//Library of Virginia//TEXT (US::Vi::vi04427::A Guide to the New Kent County (Va.) Bonds/Commissions/Oaths, 1870-1946)//EN" "vi04427.xml" A Guide to the New Kent County (Va.) Bonds/Commissions/Oaths, 1870-1946 New Kent County (Va.) Bonds/Commissions/Oaths 1165208, 1165221, 1165243 Louise Jones Library of Virginia © 2019 By The Library of Virginia. All Rights Reserved. Machine-readable finding aid created in EAD by Louise Jones, 23 April 2019 Description is in English A Guide to the New Kent County (Va.) Bonds/Commissions/Oaths, 1870-1946 A Collection in the Library of Virginia 1165208, 1165221, 1165243

Library of Virginia 2019 Library of Virginia Staff Library of Virginia Descriptive Summary The Library of Virginia New Kent County (Va.) Bonds/Commissions/Oaths, 1870-1946 1165208, 1165221, 1165243 State Records Center--Archives Annex, Library of Virginia 3 v. English New Kent County (Va.) Circuit Court Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Use Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

New Kent County (Va.) Bonds/Commissions/Oaths, 1870-1946. Local government records collection, New Kent County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.

Acquisition Information

These volumes came to the Library of Virginia in a shipment of court records from New Kent County and Accession Number 42127.

Historical Information

New Kent County may have been named either for the English county of Kent or for Kent Island, in the upper waters of the Chesapeake Bay. William Claiborne, a native of Kent who had been driven from Kent Island by Lord Baltimore, was a prominent resident of the New Kent area about 1654 when the county was formed from York County. Part of James City County was added in 1767.

Records were destroyed when John Posey set fire to the courthouse on 15 July 1787. Many records were lost when the courthouse was partially destroyed by fire during Civil War hostilities in 1862. Additional records were burned in Richmond on 3 April 1865, where they had been moved for safekeeping during the Civil War.

Scope and Content

New Kent County (Va.) Bonds/Commissions/Oaths, 1870-1946, consist of Official Bonds, 1870-1897; Official Bonds, 1887-1907; and Circuit Court: Official Bonds, 1907-1949.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged chronologically.

 Adjunct Descriptive Data Related Material

Additional New Kent County Records can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. Consult A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.

New Kent County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional New Kent County Records may be found in the Virginia Lost Records Localities Collection at the Library of Virginia. Search the Lost Records Localities Digital Collection Search the Lost Records Localities Digital Collection available at Virginia Memory.

Index Terms Corporate Names: New Kent County (Va.) Circuit Court. Subjects: Public records--Virginia--New Kent County. Geographical Names: New Kent County (Va.)--History. Genre and Form Terms: Local government records--Virginia--New Kent County.