PUBLIC "-//Library of Virginia//TEXT (US::Vi::vi04751::A Guide to the Charles City County (Va.) Wills, 1778-1920)//EN" "vi04751.xml" A Guide to the Charles City County (Va.) Wills, 1778-1920 Charles City County (Va.)Wills 1103410, 1154510-1154517, 1154521, 0007667866-0007667869 Bari Helms Library of Virginia © 2014 By The Library of Virginia. All Rights Reserved. Machine-readable finding aid created in EAD by Bari Helms, 9 May 2014 Description is in English A Guide to the Charles City County (Va.) Wills, 1778-1920 A Collection in the Library of Virginia 1103410, 1154510-1154517, 1154521, 0007667866-0007667869

Library of Virginia 2014 Unprocessed Library of Virginia Descriptive Summary The Library of Virginia Charles City County (Va.) Wills, 1778-1920 1103410, 1154510-1154517, 1154521, 0007667866-0007667869 Library of Virginia 10 v.; 1.80 cu.ft. (4 boxes) English Charles City County (Va.) Circuit Court Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

Charles City County (Va.) Wills, 1778-1920. Local government records collection, Charles City County (Va.) Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.

Acquisition Information

These items came to the Library of Virginia in shipments of court papers from Charles City County (Va.) under accession numbers 40581 and 51922.

Biographical Information

Charles City County was named for Charles I of England and was one of the eight shires established in 1634. Its area is 204 square miles, and the county seat is Charles City.

Records have been destroyed at various times. The most damage occurred during the Civil War when the records were strewn through the woods in a rainstorm. A few pre-Civil War volumes such as deed books, will books, minute books, and order books exist.

Scope and Content

Charles City County (Va.) Wills, 1778-1920, consists of Will Books with Indexes and original wills.

Adjunct Descriptive Data Related Material

See the Lost Records Localities Digital Collection available at Virginia Memory.

For more information and a listing of lost records localities see Lost Records research note.

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

Index Terms Corporate Names: Charles City County (Va.) Circuit Court. Subjects: Public records--Virginia--Charles City County. Genre and Form Terms: Local government records--Virginia--Charles City County.