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Item contains Accession number 30142.\n","Unprocessed Court Records: Judgments, Commonwealth Causes; Clerks' Records; Road and Bridge Records; Land Records: Deeds, processioner reports, etc.; Wills; Bonds/Comissions/Oaths; Military and Pension Records; School Records; Tax and Fiscal Records. Items contain Accession number 21817.\n","Unprocessed Court Records: Judgments, Commonwealth Causes; Election Records; Road and Bridge Records; Tax and Fiscal Records; Land Records.  \n","Miscellaneous Records:  Powers of Attorney, 1677-1845, n.d.;  Various Series, 1679-1725, n.d.:  Court Records: Clerk's Records: Clerk's Correspondence. 1725; 1729; Court Records: Criminal, 1720, n.d.; Court Records: County Court, 1710; Court Records: Judgments, 1685-1686, 1717 ca., n.d.; Court Records: Miscellaneous (assignment, discredit, governor's strays, promissory note, obligation), 1687-1705 (not inclusive); Fiduciary Records: renouncement of dower, renunciation of executorship, 1679-1727, n.d. 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Items contain accession number 21817.\n","Bonds/Oaths/Commissions:  Commissions for Thomas Hodges as Coroner of Norfolk Co., 1705/06; John Lomax as sheriff, 1708; John Lomax as sheriff, 1709; Robert Coleman as sheriff, 1710; Richard Covingon as sheriff, 1711; Richard Tunstall as deputy clerk of court, 1720; William Beverley as clerk of court, 1723; James Webb as sheriff, 1762; William Roane as deputy attorney general, 1770.  Land Records:  Plats:  Joseph Reeves, 1759; Robert Brooke and Elias Newman, 1761; Mary Pamplin and William Porter, 1762; land and slaves of John Smith, 1766; Thomas Haddon and William Porter, 1770; William Hawkins (2 items), 1772; dower of Rosanna Butler from Thomas Butler, 1773; Samuel Brookes, 1778; unidentified plat that mentions the Rappahannock River, n.d.  Miscellaneous Records:  Proclamations and Orders of Council (13 items), 1692-1758;  Miscellaneous Records:  letter from Alexander Spotswood, 1718;  Miscellaneous Records:  Resolution of Council concerning Essex request for new courthouse, 1726.\n","Bonds/Oaths/Commissions: Commission for Robert Brooke as sheriff, 1722; Commission for Benjamin Robinson as sheriff, 1724; Commission for Justices of the Peace, 1735; Commission for Justices of the Peace, 1750 (accession 29400); Commission for Justices of the Peace, 1752; Dedimus for Justices of the Peace, 1752.  Clerk's Records: List of Essex County Court Records, 11th March 1716.  Court Records: Commmissions of Oyer and Terminer (3 items), 1707;  Oyer and Terminer trial of Nan and Harry (7 items), 1734; General Court Indictment for Riot, 1766 (accession 33281);  Election Records: Poll taken at an election of Burgesses, 1769.  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