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In addition to the books kept in the Circuit Court Clerk's Office (1870-1960), the Clerk's Office in conjunction with the Clerk of the Board has digitally converted the board books from 1960 to 2004 and are made available on Dinwiddie County Circuit Court web site. The original books from this time are kept with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors.","Book of Fiduciaries, 1871-1904 , was conserved for future generations and electronically formatted in 2014 by the Clerk of the Circuit Court and the Board of Supervisors. This is a record of every personal representative, guardian, curator, or committee authorized to act as such. The books includes the fiduciaries' name, estate's name, bond amount and security, date of orders and inventories if required.","Order Books, 1789-1791 and 1863-1866 , record various court proceedings and orders associated within the date range. The Clerk's Office is working to get more court order books conserved and will post online as the come available. 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The Clerk's Office is working to get more court order books conserved and will post online as the come available. Order Book, 1789-1791 is the oldest book in the office and was returned around 1913 to Dinwiddie. It was lifted by a Federal Solider during the Civil War. Roman Number Page II has a more information concerning the history of the book.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"http://va-dinwiddiecounty.civicplus.com/index.aspx?NID=1123\"\u003eHistorical Indexes, 1830-2010\u003c/extref\u003e, contain a wealth of names from files and cases located in the Dinwiddie Circuit Court that date from 1830 to 2010. 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These records are especially helpful when searching the land records prior to 1833. Prior to 1833 the deeds and land records were destroyed and this is the only record of land owners in the county.","Real Estate Tax Sales, 1886-1931 , is a list of taxes sales for the County of Dinwiddie.","Land Tax Records, 2014 , from the Commissioner of Revenue for 2014 include Real Estate Book, Land Use Book, Mineral Book, Public Service Personal Property Book, and Public Service Real Estate Book.","Surveyor's plat book, 1752-1865 , contains plats and property owners from 1752 to 1865. The index for the Book was completed in 1972 by Sallie E Hargrave Short and Priscilla M Godfrey.","Works Progress Administration Historical Inventory  was originally organized in 1935 as part of the Federal Writers Project, the Historical Records Survey (HRS) document resources for research into American History. It later became a unit of the Research and Records Program in 1939. 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In addition to the books kept in the Circuit Court Clerk's Office (1870-1960), the Clerk's Office in conjunction with the Clerk of the Board has digitally converted the board books from 1960 to 2004 and are made available on Dinwiddie County Circuit Court web site. The original books from this time are kept with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors.","Book of Fiduciaries, 1871-1904 , was conserved for future generations and electronically formatted in 2014 by the Clerk of the Circuit Court and the Board of Supervisors. This is a record of every personal representative, guardian, curator, or committee authorized to act as such. The books includes the fiduciaries' name, estate's name, bond amount and security, date of orders and inventories if required.","Order Books, 1789-1791 and 1863-1866 , record various court proceedings and orders associated within the date range. The Clerk's Office is working to get more court order books conserved and will post online as the come available. 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In addition to the books kept in the Circuit Court Clerk's Office (1870-1960), the Clerk's Office in conjunction with the Clerk of the Board has digitally converted the board books from 1960 to 2004 and are made available on Dinwiddie County Circuit Court web site. The original books from this time are kept with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors.","Book of Fiduciaries, 1871-1904 , was conserved for future generations and electronically formatted in 2014 by the Clerk of the Circuit Court and the Board of Supervisors. This is a record of every personal representative, guardian, curator, or committee authorized to act as such. The books includes the fiduciaries' name, estate's name, bond amount and security, date of orders and inventories if required.","Order Books, 1789-1791 and 1863-1866 , record various court proceedings and orders associated within the date range. The Clerk's Office is working to get more court order books conserved and will post online as the come available. 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Microfilms of these indexes were later made by other organizations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"http://www.dinwiddieva.us/index.aspx?NID=992\"\u003eBoard of Supervisors' Books, 1870-2004\u003c/extref\u003e, were conserved for future generations and electronically formatted in 2012 by the Clerk of the Circuit Court and the Board of Supervisors. The Circuit Court kept the minute books from 1870 to 1960.  After 1960 the Code of Virginia changed and the books are now kept with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors. The books contain minutes from each board meeting during this time. In addition to the books kept in the Circuit Court Clerk's Office (1870-1960), the Clerk's Office in conjunction with the Clerk of the Board has digitally converted the board books from 1960 to 2004 and are made available on Dinwiddie County Circuit Court web site. The original books from this time are kept with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"http://www.dinwiddieva.us/DocumentCenter/View/3044\"\u003eBook of Fiduciaries, 1871-1904\u003c/extref\u003e, was conserved for future generations and electronically formatted in 2014 by the Clerk of the Circuit Court and the Board of Supervisors. This is a record of every personal representative, guardian, curator, or committee authorized to act as such. The books includes the fiduciaries' name, estate's name, bond amount and security, date of orders and inventories if required.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"http://www.dinwiddieva.us/index.aspx?NID=1112\"\u003eOrder Books, 1789-1791 and 1863-1866\u003c/extref\u003e, record various court proceedings and orders associated within the date range. The Clerk's Office is working to get more court order books conserved and will post online as the come available. Order Book, 1789-1791 is the oldest book in the office and was returned around 1913 to Dinwiddie. It was lifted by a Federal Solider during the Civil War. Roman Number Page II has a more information concerning the history of the book.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"http://va-dinwiddiecounty.civicplus.com/index.aspx?NID=1123\"\u003eHistorical Indexes, 1830-2010\u003c/extref\u003e, contain a wealth of names from files and cases located in the Dinwiddie Circuit Court that date from 1830 to 2010. 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These records are especially helpful when searching the land records prior to 1833. Prior to 1833 the deeds and land records were destroyed and this is the only record of land owners in the county.","Real Estate Tax Sales, 1886-1931 , is a list of taxes sales for the County of Dinwiddie.","Land Tax Records, 2014 , from the Commissioner of Revenue for 2014 include Real Estate Book, Land Use Book, Mineral Book, Public Service Personal Property Book, and Public Service Real Estate Book.","Surveyor's plat book, 1752-1865 , contains plats and property owners from 1752 to 1865. The index for the Book was completed in 1972 by Sallie E Hargrave Short and Priscilla M Godfrey.","Works Progress Administration Historical Inventory  was originally organized in 1935 as part of the Federal Writers Project, the Historical Records Survey (HRS) document resources for research into American History. It later became a unit of the Research and Records Program in 1939. 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In addition to the books kept in the Circuit Court Clerk's Office (1870-1960), the Clerk's Office in conjunction with the Clerk of the Board has digitally converted the board books from 1960 to 2004 and are made available on Dinwiddie County Circuit Court web site. The original books from this time are kept with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors.","Book of Fiduciaries, 1871-1904 , was conserved for future generations and electronically formatted in 2014 by the Clerk of the Circuit Court and the Board of Supervisors. This is a record of every personal representative, guardian, curator, or committee authorized to act as such. The books includes the fiduciaries' name, estate's name, bond amount and security, date of orders and inventories if required.","Order Books, 1789-1791 and 1863-1866 , record various court proceedings and orders associated within the date range. The Clerk's Office is working to get more court order books conserved and will post online as the come available. 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Contact Archives Research Services for availability.","Organized by case, of which each is assigned a unique index number comprised of the latest year found in case and a sequentially increasing 3-digit number assigned by the processor as cases for that year are found.  Arranged chronologically.\n","These materials were scanned with the bills, answers, and decrees at the end of the case file.","Context for Record Type:  Chancery Causes are cases of equity. According to Black's Law Dictionary they are \"administered according to fairness as contrasted with the strictly formulated rules of common law.\" A judge, not a jury, determines the outcome of the case; however, the judge is basing the decision on findings compiled and documented by Commissioners. Chancery causes are useful when researching local history, genealogical information, and land or estate divisions. They are a valuable source of local, state, social, and legal history and serve as a primary source for understanding a locality's history. Chancery causes document the lived experiences of free and enslaved individuals; women; children; people living with physical disabilities or mental health struggles; people living in poverty; defunct institutions and corporate entities; or those that may not have otherwise left traditional written histories.\n","Locality History:  Dinwiddie County was named for Robert Dinwiddie, lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1751 to 1758, and was formed from Prince George County in 1752. The county seat is Dinwiddie.\n","Lost Locality Note:  The bulk of court records prior to 1865 were stolen, mutilated, and/or destroyed by Union troops who ransacked the courthouse during the last months of the Civil War. Post-1830 volumes such as deed books, will books, chancery order books, and marriage registers exist.\n","The bulk of Dinwiddie County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1844-1954, were processed by field processors before 2003. Additional chancery causes found at the Library of Virginia were processed by V. Brooks in 2007, and chancery causes dating from 1847-1909, transferred to the library in 2011, were processed by S. Walters in 2011. \n","Digital images of Chancery Causes 1844-1932 were generated by PTFS through the Library of Virginia's Circuit Court Records Preservation Program in 2008.","Digital images of Chancery Causes 1847-1909 were generated by Backstage Library Works through the Library of Virginia's Circuit Court Records Preservation Program in 2012.","Chancery documents transferred to the Library of Virginia under accession number 50187 and scanned at an unknown date were interfiled with the appropriate chancery causes in December 2023. The box in which they were housed, b100 (barcode 0007303315), was deleted in January 2024. They were interfiled into the following suits, which had been previously scanned: 1855-001, 1862-001, 1864-002, 1870-005, 1870-020,1874-004, 1879-004, 1880-011, 1886-018, 1887-012, 1888-002, 1890-003, 1894-004, 1897-006, 1898-009, 1900-005, 1900-006, 1906-019, and 1906-022.","Encoded by G. Crawford: May 2007; updated by C. Collins: November 2023.","Additional unindexed post-1913 records may be available at the Dinwiddie County Circuit Court Clerk's Office.","Additional Dinwiddie Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia web site. Consult  A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.","Dinwiddie County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Dinwiddie County Records may be found in the  Lost Records Localities Digital Collection  available the Library of Virginia website.\n","Dinwiddie County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1844-1954, consists of cases concerning issues of equity brought largely by residents of the county and filed in the circuit court. These cases often involve the following actions: divisions of estates or land, disputes over wills, disputes regarding contracts, debt, divorce, and business disputes. Other less prevalent issues include freedom suits, permissions to sell property, and disputes concerning trespass. Predominant documents found in these chancery causes include bills (documents the plaintiff's complaint), answers (defendant's response to the plaintiff's complaint), decrees (court's decision), depositions, affidavits, correspondence, lists of heirs, deeds, plats, wills, records involving enslaved individuals, business records or vital statistics.\n","Commonly found surnames among the plaintiffs and defendants include Abernathy, Adams, Barker, Barner, Boisseau, Branch, Brown, Butterworth, Chappell, Coleman, Crowder, Dabney, Davis, Dickerson, Elder, Ford, Fraser, Gilliam, Goodwyn, Graves, Green, Hall, Hardy, Hargrave, Harrison, Hill, Hitchcock, Hobbs, Jackson, Johnson, Jones, King, Lewis, Malone, Mason, Mitchell, Moore, Pegram, Perkins, Ragsdale, Richardson, Rives, Roberts, Rose, Smith, Spain, Spiers, Taylor, Thomas, Thompson, Tucker, Vaughan, Walker, Wells, White, Williams, Williamson, Wilson, Wynn, and Young.","The Commonwealth of Virginia was involved in nine suits that ended between 1929 and 1951, while the Federal Land Bank of Baltimore was the primary plaintiff in 60 suits that ended between 1925 and 1944. Both the Manson \u0026 Shell Co. (also Manson \u0026 Shell \u0026 Co, Manson \u0026 Shell, Manson Shell \u0026 Turnbull, and Manson Shell Co. \u0026 Turnbull) and the Seaboard Airline Railway (also Seaboard Airline Railway Co.) were involved in 12 suits that ended between 1908 and 1929 and 1902 and 1946, respectively.","This collection also includes 1 folder of “Orphan Chancery,” which is processed but not indexed. These records contain parts, often single items, of chancery causes that could not be further identified as belonging to a certain case.","Thomas Stewart, a free Black physician, owned a large amount of real and personal property. Following the institution of the suit, a commissioner was appointed to identify all of Stewart's heirs so that the court could divide his property equally among them. Many had migrated out of state. The suit includes a vast amount of genealogical information. \n","Lucinda Morris married John E. S. 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