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Those that did bring their enslaved people were required to register them with the county court and sign a certificate of importation agreeing that they were not bringing enslaved people into the commonwealth with the intent to sell. The enslaved person is sometimes named, but not always, and occasionally information is given as to age, birthdate, and the state from which the individuals were moving. According to Section 3 of the act \"every slave imported into this commonwealth contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, shall upon such importation become free.\" By this clause, those enslaved people who were brought into Virginia illegally could pursue their freedom in the local courts. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLocality History:\u003c/emph\u003e Northampton County was named probably for the English county, of which Obedience Robins, a prominent early resident of the Eastern Shore, was a native. The county, which originally included all of the peninsula south of Maryland and which was one of the eight shires, or counties, first enumerated in 1634, was first called Accomack. The General Assembly changed the name to Northampton County in 1643. Accomack County was created from Northampton County about 1663, but in October 1670, the General Assembly temporarily reunited the two counties as Northampton County. In November 1673, Accomack County was again separated from Northampton. The county seat is Eastville.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Historical Information\n"],"bioghist_tesim":["Context for Record Type:  In 1778, Governor Patrick Henry enacted legislation preventing importation of enslaved people into the commonwealth. Those that did bring their enslaved people were required to register them with the county court and sign a certificate of importation agreeing that they were not bringing enslaved people into the commonwealth with the intent to sell. The enslaved person is sometimes named, but not always, and occasionally information is given as to age, birthdate, and the state from which the individuals were moving. According to Section 3 of the act \"every slave imported into this commonwealth contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, shall upon such importation become free.\" By this clause, those enslaved people who were brought into Virginia illegally could pursue their freedom in the local courts. \n","Locality History:  Northampton County was named probably for the English county, of which Obedience Robins, a prominent early resident of the Eastern Shore, was a native. The county, which originally included all of the peninsula south of Maryland and which was one of the eight shires, or counties, first enumerated in 1634, was first called Accomack. The General Assembly changed the name to Northampton County in 1643. Accomack County was created from Northampton County about 1663, but in October 1670, the General Assembly temporarily reunited the two counties as Northampton County. In November 1673, Accomack County was again separated from Northampton. The county seat is Eastville.\n"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eNorthampton County (Va.) Certificates of Importation, 1743-1744, 1816. Local government records collection, Northampton County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia. \n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Northampton County (Va.) Certificates of Importation, 1743-1744, 1816. Local government records collection, Northampton County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia. \n"],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eNorthampton County Certificates of Importation were originally described as part of the Northampton County (Va.) Free and Enslaved Records, 1737-1860, but were removed to the present Northampton County (Va.) 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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. \u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi02658#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"vi_vi02658","ead_ssi":"vi_vi02658","_root_":"vi_vi02658","_nest_parent_":"vi_vi02658","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/lva/vi02658.xml","title_ssm":["Northampton County (Va.) Chancery Causes, \n1721-1912"],"title_tesim":["Northampton County (Va.) Chancery Causes, \n1721-1912"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Northampton County (Va.) Chancery Causes, \n1721-1912"],"text":["Northampton County (Va.) Chancery Causes, \n1721-1912","Digital images; 50.57 cubic feet (110 boxes)","Northampton County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1721-1912, use digital images found on the  Chancery Records Index  available electronically at the website of the Library of Virginia.\n","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","Arrangement of documents within each folder are as follows: Bill, Answer, and Final Decree (if found.)\n","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:  Northampton County was named probably for the English county, of which Obedience Robins, a prominent early resident of the Eastern Shore, was a native. The county, which originally included all of the peninsula south of Maryland and which was one of the eight shires, or counties, first enumerated in 1634, was first called Accomack. The General Assembly changed the name to Northampton County in 1643. Accomack County was created from Northampton County about 1663, but in October 1670, the General Assembly temporarily reunited the two counties as Northampton County. In November 1673, Accomack County was again separated from Northampton. The county seat is Eastville.\n","Northampton Chancery was processed in two separate batches; first, the pre-1813 records were processed by Library of Virginia staff in 2007 and then Library of Virginia staff completed processing the 1813-1912 records in 2014.","Digital images were generated by Crowley Micrographics in 2008 and Backstage Library Works in 2014 through the Library of Virginia's Circuit Court Records Preservation Program.\n","Encoded by G. Crawford: 2008; Updated by J. Taylor: October 2023.","Additional Northampton County Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia.  Consult  \"A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.\"","Additional unindexed post-1912 Chancery Causes may be found at the Northampton County Courthouse.\n","Northampton County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1721-1912, 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","Due to Northampton County's location on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, a recurrent theme across several chancery causes is naval warfare's impact upon citizens of Northampton. Examples include men impressed into the British Navy during the Revolutionary War and War of 1812, as well as enslaved men fleeing to the British Navy during the Revolutionary War. "," These records also contain a fairly substantial amount of information concerning enslaved Black men, women, and children. While there are several suits concerning the freedom of enslaved individuals, these cases largely represent the perspective of white enslavers and their disputes involving the sale, hiring, financial responsibilities, and legality of ownership of Black individuals. "," There are several cases 1831-1832, that relate to members of the Gingaskin Indian Tribe [Accomac Indian Tribe] and specifically document attempts to hold on to their land after white officials and inhabitants terminated their reservation and later took Gingaskin land after the Southampton Rebellion [Nat Turner's Rebellion]","The suit was centered on the mental capacity of Hannah Preeson in the years before her death. Hannah was described as being afflicted by epilepsy and convulsions and at question was whether she had been capable of managing her estate. \n","In the suit, an infant child suffered from a sore leg and died. The physician was accused of malpractice. References were made to salivation treatment.\n","Arthur Robins was the father of Joshua, the plaintiff as well as  Arthur, the defendant. His will was placed in a drawer prior to his death. Anna Robins, his widow, went to find the will after his death, only to find it missing. Arthur, the eldest son, planned to claim his father's entire estate according to the Law of Primogeniture.\n","This suit concerned the property of Isaac Simkins. Isaac had been missing since 1796. His brothers and sisters wanted to divide his property. According to the depositions of Isaac's brother, Arthur Simkins as well as the deposition of James Travis, Isaac was impressed to serve on board of a British Man of War in June 1796. Arthur Simkins, Isaac's brother, heard that Isaac died shortly after he was impressed in to the British Navy.\n\n","John H. Read died in Accomack County; he was survived by Sally Read, his widow, and Margaret L. Read, his daughter. Margaret was worried that Sally would sell Moses and Mary, two enslaved people to some \"Southern Negro purchaser\" who would remove them from Virginia. Margaret wanted an injunction to prevent Sally from selling Moses and Mary.\n"," After Nathaniel Darby's death, the people Darby enslaved were left to Harriot B. Parker and Mary Parramore, his nieces. Included in the will were Hamtpon, Caleb, Benjamin, and Cato, four enslaved men who had fled to the British during the Revolutionary War. Their names had never been removed from Darby's will.   \n","John Yetman, Elizabeth Yetman's husband, was from Great Britain. He was the master of the schooner the  Mary Ann . He sailed the ship to the Port of Charleston in August 1818. On the return trip in September 1818, there was a gale of wind experienced in the part of the American Coast where the schooner would have been sailing. The  Mary Ann  was missing and believed to have been sunk by the gale.      \n","William R. Custis and Thomas Copper of Accomack County hired John C. Milburn to repair the Accomack County Jail and Jailor's house. Milburn was to be paid when he finished the job, however Milburn left the job site and did not return. Copper paid laborers wages for 8 to 10 days while they waited for Mr. Milburn to return. The materials that were purchased for the job were wasted. Custis wanted to be reimbursed for the money that was lost during Milburn's absence.\n","Margaret Williams, the widow of John Williams, had two enslaved people included in her dower who were carried away by the British in the War of 1812. Under the Treaty of Ghent she was allowed 280 dollars for one and 390 dollars for the other. She was to receive 402 dollars, which was then in the hands of Thomas Spady. Samuel S. Williams and the other plaintiffs were afraid Margaret would squander the money if Thomas Spady gave it to her. \n","  Edmund James sold Thomas James a schooner named  Susan  or  Sukey . Thomas James claimed the schooner had rotten boards when he bought it and Edmund James was to pay for its repairs. The deposition of Thomas Dowty talked about how the schooner was blown on shore and he offered to get the boat off the shore. He describes the boat as being a pretty good boat that some timbers were good and some timbers were rotten.  Stephen Kellam said he heard the schooner leaked. Victor Ewing was paid to make repairs on the vessel by Edmund James said unseaworthy and gives a description of the vessel after it was blown ashore by the gale.\n","These suits concerned plots of land in Indian Town, Va., which belonged to the Gingaskin Indian Tribe. The Gingaskin Indian Tribe formerly held reservation land in Northampton County, however the General Assembly passed a law in 1813 to eliminate the reservation and divided the land between official members of the Gingaskin Indian Tribe. While three-fourths of individual Gingaskin owners held onto their land after 1813, most of those people were forced out after Nat Turner's insurrection in 1831 due to the fears of white inhabitants of further uprisings. See also  Northampton County (Va.) Land records relating to Gingaskin Indian lands, 1795-1815 "," Nancy White emancipated Daniel, Mary Senior, Abram (Abraham), and Leah, all enslaved individuals, in her will. They were given leave to settle outside Virginia. George Senior, Mary's son was freed in the 1852 suit and all of Leah's children were freed in the 1854 suit. \n","George seeks to prevent Thomas Hatton Kellam from selling him in the Southern Market. Sabra (or Sabrah), George's grandmother, was freed according to the 1800 will of Walter Hatton upon reaching the age of 31. Saraba' heirs were to be freed at age 31 as well. George wass not yet 31 years old at the time of the court case. The decree said that George could not be sold, but he could be hired out in any part of the Commonwealth until he became 31 years old and freed. According to the bill of complaint, Thomas C. Bunting and William J. Goffigon were \"engaged in supplying the Southern market in part, with persons of Color in the character of slaves.\" George was in the custody of the Jailor of Northampton County \"awaiting as he is informed and believes transportation to some slave market beyond the limits of the County of Accomac and the Commonwealth of Virginia.\"   \n","Richard Winder married Sallie M. Custis in 1851; however, he left their home in Accomack County in November 1861. Sallie stated that the Federal Forces were \"making an invasion of the County of Accomack\" when he left in 1861. Richard left her at home with two young children, a large farm and a population of enslaved people. She also accused her husband of adultery. Richard wanted a divorce because he believed his wife committed adultery, allegedly occuring during the Civil War. Richard was posted at Anderson Prison in Georgia and appears to have been a resident of Libby Prison until March 1865. The witnesses were questioned about his conduct when he returned home and Sallie's conduct when he was away.\n","John N. Brickhouse owed the Virginia Military Institute $164.98 for goods that were sold and delivered to him. Brickhouse and his executors had not paid the debt, so the Virginia Military Institute sued his estate in Northampton County, the location of Brickhouse's land. \n","John H. E. Smith left clear instructions in his will in regards to his burial. The will starts with instructions of how he wants to be buried and instructions of how and where to build the vault for his body.   Smith wanted to be buried in a metallic coffin, in a vault built entirely above ground on the highest point of land he owned. He had other instructions about his burial plot.","Ibby Jane Smith died in 1880 at the age of either 16 or 17. She was a pensioner of the United States as the heir of her father Seth Smith, alias Scott. Smith served in the Civil War as a member of the \"Colored Troops,\" but died in May of 1865. Since Seth and Leah, Ibby's mother, lived together while they were enslaved, Leah's family claimed that Ibby was illegitimate while Seth's family claimed that she was legitimate. The deposition of Jacob Fitchett tells how Leah brought Ibby Jane to the Freedman's Bureau at Town Fields in order to report her birth, making her his legitimate daughter. \n","The suit examines the difficulties of both previously enslaved people and their free children in post-War Virginia, especially in regards to \"legitimacy.\" As only \"legitimate\" children and spouses could inherit property, this case reveals the legal gray area many people of color inhabited due to the laws surrounding slavery and the family. Laws enacted to preserve control over Black bodies by the white population continued to inhibit people of color even after slavery had long since ended. \n","In a deposition included in this divorce suit, Henry Cypress was asked if he remembered when the couple had separated. He stated that \"they separated about Irish Potato planting time, February or March, of 1898. I remember only by the time Shelly Banks was frozen to death during the bid February Blizzard.\" Cypress also stated he \"was a member of an investigating committee of my church when Severn Spady was disciplined on account of the separation.\"\n"," The Capeville District's former school building was on one-fourth acre of land which was too small for the students, so the School Board bought a two and a half acre lot. The first petition asked to have the title of the land certified and recorded. The second petition was a request to sell the one-fourth acre of land they no longer needed. 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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\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLocality History:\u003c/emph\u003e Northampton County was named probably for the English county, of which Obedience Robins, a prominent early resident of the Eastern Shore, was a native. The county, which originally included all of the peninsula south of Maryland and which was one of the eight shires, or counties, first enumerated in 1634, was first called Accomack. The General Assembly changed the name to Northampton County in 1643. Accomack County was created from Northampton County about 1663, but in October 1670, the General Assembly temporarily reunited the two counties as Northampton County. In November 1673, Accomack County was again separated from Northampton. The county seat is Eastville.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Historical Information\n"],"bioghist_tesim":["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:  Northampton County was named probably for the English county, of which Obedience Robins, a prominent early resident of the Eastern Shore, was a native. The county, which originally included all of the peninsula south of Maryland and which was one of the eight shires, or counties, first enumerated in 1634, was first called Accomack. The General Assembly changed the name to Northampton County in 1643. Accomack County was created from Northampton County about 1663, but in October 1670, the General Assembly temporarily reunited the two counties as Northampton County. In November 1673, Accomack County was again separated from Northampton. The county seat is Eastville.\n"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eNorthampton County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1721-1912. (Cite style of suit and chancery index no.). Local Government Records Collection, Northampton County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Northampton County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1721-1912. (Cite style of suit and chancery index no.). Local Government Records Collection, Northampton County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.\n"],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eNorthampton Chancery was processed in two separate batches; first, the pre-1813 records were processed by Library of Virginia staff in 2007 and then Library of Virginia staff completed processing the 1813-1912 records in 2014.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDigital images were generated by Crowley Micrographics in 2008 and Backstage Library Works in 2014 through the Library of Virginia's Circuit Court Records Preservation Program.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncoded by G. Crawford: 2008; Updated by J. Taylor: October 2023.\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information\n"],"processinfo_tesim":["Northampton Chancery was processed in two separate batches; first, the pre-1813 records were processed by Library of Virginia staff in 2007 and then Library of Virginia staff completed processing the 1813-1912 records in 2014.","Digital images were generated by Crowley Micrographics in 2008 and Backstage Library Works in 2014 through the Library of Virginia's Circuit Court Records Preservation Program.\n","Encoded by G. Crawford: 2008; Updated by J. Taylor: October 2023."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAdditional Northampton County Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia.  Consult \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/local/results_all.asp?CountyID=VA197\"\u003e\"A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.\"\u003c/extref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditional unindexed post-1912 Chancery Causes may be found at the Northampton County Courthouse.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material\n"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Additional Northampton County Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia.  Consult  \"A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.\"","Additional unindexed post-1912 Chancery Causes may be found at the Northampton County Courthouse.\n"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eNorthampton County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1721-1912, 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\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDue to Northampton County's location on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, a recurrent theme across several chancery causes is naval warfare's impact upon citizens of Northampton. Examples include men impressed into the British Navy during the Revolutionary War and War of 1812, as well as enslaved men fleeing to the British Navy during the Revolutionary War. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e These records also contain a fairly substantial amount of information concerning enslaved Black men, women, and children. While there are several suits concerning the freedom of enslaved individuals, these cases largely represent the perspective of white enslavers and their disputes involving the sale, hiring, financial responsibilities, and legality of ownership of Black individuals. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e There are several cases 1831-1832, that relate to members of the Gingaskin Indian Tribe [Accomac Indian Tribe] and specifically document attempts to hold on to their land after white officials and inhabitants terminated their reservation and later took Gingaskin land after the Southampton Rebellion [Nat Turner's Rebellion]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe suit was centered on the mental capacity of Hannah Preeson in the years before her death. Hannah was described as being afflicted by epilepsy and convulsions and at question was whether she had been capable of managing her estate. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the suit, an infant child suffered from a sore leg and died. The physician was accused of malpractice. References were made to salivation treatment.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArthur Robins was the father of Joshua, the plaintiff as well as  Arthur, the defendant. His will was placed in a drawer prior to his death. Anna Robins, his widow, went to find the will after his death, only to find it missing. Arthur, the eldest son, planned to claim his father's entire estate according to the Law of Primogeniture.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis suit concerned the property of Isaac Simkins. Isaac had been missing since 1796. His brothers and sisters wanted to divide his property. According to the depositions of Isaac's brother, Arthur Simkins as well as the deposition of James Travis, Isaac was impressed to serve on board of a British Man of War in June 1796. Arthur Simkins, Isaac's brother, heard that Isaac died shortly after he was impressed in to the British Navy.\n\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Read died in Accomack County; he was survived by Sally Read, his widow, and Margaret L. Read, his daughter. Margaret was worried that Sally would sell Moses and Mary, two enslaved people to some \"Southern Negro purchaser\" who would remove them from Virginia. Margaret wanted an injunction to prevent Sally from selling Moses and Mary.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e After Nathaniel Darby's death, the people Darby enslaved were left to Harriot B. Parker and Mary Parramore, his nieces. Included in the will were Hamtpon, Caleb, Benjamin, and Cato, four enslaved men who had fled to the British during the Revolutionary War. Their names had never been removed from Darby's will.   \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Yetman, Elizabeth Yetman's husband, was from Great Britain. He was the master of the schooner the \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/title\u003e. He sailed the ship to the Port of Charleston in August 1818. On the return trip in September 1818, there was a gale of wind experienced in the part of the American Coast where the schooner would have been sailing. The \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/title\u003e was missing and believed to have been sunk by the gale.      \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam R. Custis and Thomas Copper of Accomack County hired John C. Milburn to repair the Accomack County Jail and Jailor's house. Milburn was to be paid when he finished the job, however Milburn left the job site and did not return. Copper paid laborers wages for 8 to 10 days while they waited for Mr. Milburn to return. The materials that were purchased for the job were wasted. Custis wanted to be reimbursed for the money that was lost during Milburn's absence.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Williams, the widow of John Williams, had two enslaved people included in her dower who were carried away by the British in the War of 1812. Under the Treaty of Ghent she was allowed 280 dollars for one and 390 dollars for the other. She was to receive 402 dollars, which was then in the hands of Thomas Spady. Samuel S. Williams and the other plaintiffs were afraid Margaret would squander the money if Thomas Spady gave it to her. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  Edmund James sold Thomas James a schooner named \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSusan\u003c/title\u003e or \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSukey\u003c/title\u003e. Thomas James claimed the schooner had rotten boards when he bought it and Edmund James was to pay for its repairs. The deposition of Thomas Dowty talked about how the schooner was blown on shore and he offered to get the boat off the shore. He describes the boat as being a pretty good boat that some timbers were good and some timbers were rotten.  Stephen Kellam said he heard the schooner leaked. Victor Ewing was paid to make repairs on the vessel by Edmund James said unseaworthy and gives a description of the vessel after it was blown ashore by the gale.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese suits concerned plots of land in Indian Town, Va., which belonged to the Gingaskin Indian Tribe. The Gingaskin Indian Tribe formerly held reservation land in Northampton County, however the General Assembly passed a law in 1813 to eliminate the reservation and divided the land between official members of the Gingaskin Indian Tribe. While three-fourths of individual Gingaskin owners held onto their land after 1813, most of those people were forced out after Nat Turner's insurrection in 1831 due to the fears of white inhabitants of further uprisings. See also \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=lva/vi04050.xml\"\u003eNorthampton County (Va.) Land records relating to Gingaskin Indian lands, 1795-1815 \u003c/extref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Nancy White emancipated Daniel, Mary Senior, Abram (Abraham), and Leah, all enslaved individuals, in her will. They were given leave to settle outside Virginia. George Senior, Mary's son was freed in the 1852 suit and all of Leah's children were freed in the 1854 suit. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge seeks to prevent Thomas Hatton Kellam from selling him in the Southern Market. Sabra (or Sabrah), George's grandmother, was freed according to the 1800 will of Walter Hatton upon reaching the age of 31. Saraba' heirs were to be freed at age 31 as well. George wass not yet 31 years old at the time of the court case. The decree said that George could not be sold, but he could be hired out in any part of the Commonwealth until he became 31 years old and freed. According to the bill of complaint, Thomas C. Bunting and William J. Goffigon were \"engaged in supplying the Southern market in part, with persons of Color in the character of slaves.\" George was in the custody of the Jailor of Northampton County \"awaiting as he is informed and believes transportation to some slave market beyond the limits of the County of Accomac and the Commonwealth of Virginia.\"   \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard Winder married Sallie M. Custis in 1851; however, he left their home in Accomack County in November 1861. Sallie stated that the Federal Forces were \"making an invasion of the County of Accomack\" when he left in 1861. Richard left her at home with two young children, a large farm and a population of enslaved people. She also accused her husband of adultery. Richard wanted a divorce because he believed his wife committed adultery, allegedly occuring during the Civil War. Richard was posted at Anderson Prison in Georgia and appears to have been a resident of Libby Prison until March 1865. The witnesses were questioned about his conduct when he returned home and Sallie's conduct when he was away.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn N. Brickhouse owed the Virginia Military Institute $164.98 for goods that were sold and delivered to him. Brickhouse and his executors had not paid the debt, so the Virginia Military Institute sued his estate in Northampton County, the location of Brickhouse's land. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. E. Smith left clear instructions in his will in regards to his burial. The will starts with instructions of how he wants to be buried and instructions of how and where to build the vault for his body.   Smith wanted to be buried in a metallic coffin, in a vault built entirely above ground on the highest point of land he owned. He had other instructions about his burial plot.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIbby Jane Smith died in 1880 at the age of either 16 or 17. She was a pensioner of the United States as the heir of her father Seth Smith, alias Scott. Smith served in the Civil War as a member of the \"Colored Troops,\" but died in May of 1865. Since Seth and Leah, Ibby's mother, lived together while they were enslaved, Leah's family claimed that Ibby was illegitimate while Seth's family claimed that she was legitimate. The deposition of Jacob Fitchett tells how Leah brought Ibby Jane to the Freedman's Bureau at Town Fields in order to report her birth, making her his legitimate daughter. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe suit examines the difficulties of both previously enslaved people and their free children in post-War Virginia, especially in regards to \"legitimacy.\" As only \"legitimate\" children and spouses could inherit property, this case reveals the legal gray area many people of color inhabited due to the laws surrounding slavery and the family. Laws enacted to preserve control over Black bodies by the white population continued to inhibit people of color even after slavery had long since ended. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn a deposition included in this divorce suit, Henry Cypress was asked if he remembered when the couple had separated. He stated that \"they separated about Irish Potato planting time, February or March, of 1898. I remember only by the time Shelly Banks was frozen to death during the bid February Blizzard.\" Cypress also stated he \"was a member of an investigating committee of my church when Severn Spady was disciplined on account of the separation.\"\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e The Capeville District's former school building was on one-fourth acre of land which was too small for the students, so the School Board bought a two and a half acre lot. The first petition asked to have the title of the land certified and recorded. The second petition was a request to sell the one-fourth acre of land they no longer needed. The land the School Board purchased was to be used for a new High School for white students.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Northampton County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1721-1912, 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","Due to Northampton County's location on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, a recurrent theme across several chancery causes is naval warfare's impact upon citizens of Northampton. Examples include men impressed into the British Navy during the Revolutionary War and War of 1812, as well as enslaved men fleeing to the British Navy during the Revolutionary War. "," These records also contain a fairly substantial amount of information concerning enslaved Black men, women, and children. While there are several suits concerning the freedom of enslaved individuals, these cases largely represent the perspective of white enslavers and their disputes involving the sale, hiring, financial responsibilities, and legality of ownership of Black individuals. "," There are several cases 1831-1832, that relate to members of the Gingaskin Indian Tribe [Accomac Indian Tribe] and specifically document attempts to hold on to their land after white officials and inhabitants terminated their reservation and later took Gingaskin land after the Southampton Rebellion [Nat Turner's Rebellion]","The suit was centered on the mental capacity of Hannah Preeson in the years before her death. Hannah was described as being afflicted by epilepsy and convulsions and at question was whether she had been capable of managing her estate. \n","In the suit, an infant child suffered from a sore leg and died. The physician was accused of malpractice. References were made to salivation treatment.\n","Arthur Robins was the father of Joshua, the plaintiff as well as  Arthur, the defendant. His will was placed in a drawer prior to his death. Anna Robins, his widow, went to find the will after his death, only to find it missing. Arthur, the eldest son, planned to claim his father's entire estate according to the Law of Primogeniture.\n","This suit concerned the property of Isaac Simkins. Isaac had been missing since 1796. His brothers and sisters wanted to divide his property. According to the depositions of Isaac's brother, Arthur Simkins as well as the deposition of James Travis, Isaac was impressed to serve on board of a British Man of War in June 1796. Arthur Simkins, Isaac's brother, heard that Isaac died shortly after he was impressed in to the British Navy.\n\n","John H. Read died in Accomack County; he was survived by Sally Read, his widow, and Margaret L. Read, his daughter. Margaret was worried that Sally would sell Moses and Mary, two enslaved people to some \"Southern Negro purchaser\" who would remove them from Virginia. Margaret wanted an injunction to prevent Sally from selling Moses and Mary.\n"," After Nathaniel Darby's death, the people Darby enslaved were left to Harriot B. Parker and Mary Parramore, his nieces. Included in the will were Hamtpon, Caleb, Benjamin, and Cato, four enslaved men who had fled to the British during the Revolutionary War. Their names had never been removed from Darby's will.   \n","John Yetman, Elizabeth Yetman's husband, was from Great Britain. He was the master of the schooner the  Mary Ann . He sailed the ship to the Port of Charleston in August 1818. On the return trip in September 1818, there was a gale of wind experienced in the part of the American Coast where the schooner would have been sailing. The  Mary Ann  was missing and believed to have been sunk by the gale.      \n","William R. Custis and Thomas Copper of Accomack County hired John C. Milburn to repair the Accomack County Jail and Jailor's house. Milburn was to be paid when he finished the job, however Milburn left the job site and did not return. Copper paid laborers wages for 8 to 10 days while they waited for Mr. Milburn to return. The materials that were purchased for the job were wasted. Custis wanted to be reimbursed for the money that was lost during Milburn's absence.\n","Margaret Williams, the widow of John Williams, had two enslaved people included in her dower who were carried away by the British in the War of 1812. Under the Treaty of Ghent she was allowed 280 dollars for one and 390 dollars for the other. She was to receive 402 dollars, which was then in the hands of Thomas Spady. Samuel S. Williams and the other plaintiffs were afraid Margaret would squander the money if Thomas Spady gave it to her. \n","  Edmund James sold Thomas James a schooner named  Susan  or  Sukey . Thomas James claimed the schooner had rotten boards when he bought it and Edmund James was to pay for its repairs. The deposition of Thomas Dowty talked about how the schooner was blown on shore and he offered to get the boat off the shore. He describes the boat as being a pretty good boat that some timbers were good and some timbers were rotten.  Stephen Kellam said he heard the schooner leaked. Victor Ewing was paid to make repairs on the vessel by Edmund James said unseaworthy and gives a description of the vessel after it was blown ashore by the gale.\n","These suits concerned plots of land in Indian Town, Va., which belonged to the Gingaskin Indian Tribe. The Gingaskin Indian Tribe formerly held reservation land in Northampton County, however the General Assembly passed a law in 1813 to eliminate the reservation and divided the land between official members of the Gingaskin Indian Tribe. While three-fourths of individual Gingaskin owners held onto their land after 1813, most of those people were forced out after Nat Turner's insurrection in 1831 due to the fears of white inhabitants of further uprisings. See also  Northampton County (Va.) Land records relating to Gingaskin Indian lands, 1795-1815 "," Nancy White emancipated Daniel, Mary Senior, Abram (Abraham), and Leah, all enslaved individuals, in her will. They were given leave to settle outside Virginia. George Senior, Mary's son was freed in the 1852 suit and all of Leah's children were freed in the 1854 suit. \n","George seeks to prevent Thomas Hatton Kellam from selling him in the Southern Market. Sabra (or Sabrah), George's grandmother, was freed according to the 1800 will of Walter Hatton upon reaching the age of 31. Saraba' heirs were to be freed at age 31 as well. George wass not yet 31 years old at the time of the court case. The decree said that George could not be sold, but he could be hired out in any part of the Commonwealth until he became 31 years old and freed. According to the bill of complaint, Thomas C. Bunting and William J. Goffigon were \"engaged in supplying the Southern market in part, with persons of Color in the character of slaves.\" George was in the custody of the Jailor of Northampton County \"awaiting as he is informed and believes transportation to some slave market beyond the limits of the County of Accomac and the Commonwealth of Virginia.\"   \n","Richard Winder married Sallie M. Custis in 1851; however, he left their home in Accomack County in November 1861. Sallie stated that the Federal Forces were \"making an invasion of the County of Accomack\" when he left in 1861. Richard left her at home with two young children, a large farm and a population of enslaved people. She also accused her husband of adultery. Richard wanted a divorce because he believed his wife committed adultery, allegedly occuring during the Civil War. Richard was posted at Anderson Prison in Georgia and appears to have been a resident of Libby Prison until March 1865. The witnesses were questioned about his conduct when he returned home and Sallie's conduct when he was away.\n","John N. Brickhouse owed the Virginia Military Institute $164.98 for goods that were sold and delivered to him. Brickhouse and his executors had not paid the debt, so the Virginia Military Institute sued his estate in Northampton County, the location of Brickhouse's land. \n","John H. E. Smith left clear instructions in his will in regards to his burial. The will starts with instructions of how he wants to be buried and instructions of how and where to build the vault for his body.   Smith wanted to be buried in a metallic coffin, in a vault built entirely above ground on the highest point of land he owned. He had other instructions about his burial plot.","Ibby Jane Smith died in 1880 at the age of either 16 or 17. She was a pensioner of the United States as the heir of her father Seth Smith, alias Scott. Smith served in the Civil War as a member of the \"Colored Troops,\" but died in May of 1865. Since Seth and Leah, Ibby's mother, lived together while they were enslaved, Leah's family claimed that Ibby was illegitimate while Seth's family claimed that she was legitimate. The deposition of Jacob Fitchett tells how Leah brought Ibby Jane to the Freedman's Bureau at Town Fields in order to report her birth, making her his legitimate daughter. \n","The suit examines the difficulties of both previously enslaved people and their free children in post-War Virginia, especially in regards to \"legitimacy.\" As only \"legitimate\" children and spouses could inherit property, this case reveals the legal gray area many people of color inhabited due to the laws surrounding slavery and the family. Laws enacted to preserve control over Black bodies by the white population continued to inhibit people of color even after slavery had long since ended. \n","In a deposition included in this divorce suit, Henry Cypress was asked if he remembered when the couple had separated. He stated that \"they separated about Irish Potato planting time, February or March, of 1898. I remember only by the time Shelly Banks was frozen to death during the bid February Blizzard.\" Cypress also stated he \"was a member of an investigating committee of my church when Severn Spady was disciplined on account of the separation.\"\n"," The Capeville District's former school building was on one-fourth acre of land which was too small for the students, so the School Board bought a two and a half acre lot. The first petition asked to have the title of the land certified and recorded. The second petition was a request to sell the one-fourth acre of land they no longer needed. 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Chancery Causes, \n1721-1912"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Northampton County (Va.) Chancery Causes, \n1721-1912"],"text":["Northampton County (Va.) Chancery Causes, \n1721-1912","Digital images; 50.57 cubic feet (110 boxes)","Northampton County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1721-1912, use digital images found on the  Chancery Records Index  available electronically at the website of the Library of Virginia.\n","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","Arrangement of documents within each folder are as follows: Bill, Answer, and Final Decree (if found.)\n","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:  Northampton County was named probably for the English county, of which Obedience Robins, a prominent early resident of the Eastern Shore, was a native. The county, which originally included all of the peninsula south of Maryland and which was one of the eight shires, or counties, first enumerated in 1634, was first called Accomack. The General Assembly changed the name to Northampton County in 1643. Accomack County was created from Northampton County about 1663, but in October 1670, the General Assembly temporarily reunited the two counties as Northampton County. In November 1673, Accomack County was again separated from Northampton. The county seat is Eastville.\n","Northampton Chancery was processed in two separate batches; first, the pre-1813 records were processed by Library of Virginia staff in 2007 and then Library of Virginia staff completed processing the 1813-1912 records in 2014.","Digital images were generated by Crowley Micrographics in 2008 and Backstage Library Works in 2014 through the Library of Virginia's Circuit Court Records Preservation Program.\n","Encoded by G. Crawford: 2008; Updated by J. Taylor: October 2023.","Additional Northampton County Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia.  Consult  \"A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.\"","Additional unindexed post-1912 Chancery Causes may be found at the Northampton County Courthouse.\n","Northampton County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1721-1912, 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","Due to Northampton County's location on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, a recurrent theme across several chancery causes is naval warfare's impact upon citizens of Northampton. Examples include men impressed into the British Navy during the Revolutionary War and War of 1812, as well as enslaved men fleeing to the British Navy during the Revolutionary War. "," These records also contain a fairly substantial amount of information concerning enslaved Black men, women, and children. While there are several suits concerning the freedom of enslaved individuals, these cases largely represent the perspective of white enslavers and their disputes involving the sale, hiring, financial responsibilities, and legality of ownership of Black individuals. "," There are several cases 1831-1832, that relate to members of the Gingaskin Indian Tribe [Accomac Indian Tribe] and specifically document attempts to hold on to their land after white officials and inhabitants terminated their reservation and later took Gingaskin land after the Southampton Rebellion [Nat Turner's Rebellion]","The suit was centered on the mental capacity of Hannah Preeson in the years before her death. Hannah was described as being afflicted by epilepsy and convulsions and at question was whether she had been capable of managing her estate. \n","In the suit, an infant child suffered from a sore leg and died. The physician was accused of malpractice. References were made to salivation treatment.\n","Arthur Robins was the father of Joshua, the plaintiff as well as  Arthur, the defendant. His will was placed in a drawer prior to his death. Anna Robins, his widow, went to find the will after his death, only to find it missing. Arthur, the eldest son, planned to claim his father's entire estate according to the Law of Primogeniture.\n","This suit concerned the property of Isaac Simkins. Isaac had been missing since 1796. His brothers and sisters wanted to divide his property. According to the depositions of Isaac's brother, Arthur Simkins as well as the deposition of James Travis, Isaac was impressed to serve on board of a British Man of War in June 1796. Arthur Simkins, Isaac's brother, heard that Isaac died shortly after he was impressed in to the British Navy.\n\n","John H. Read died in Accomack County; he was survived by Sally Read, his widow, and Margaret L. Read, his daughter. Margaret was worried that Sally would sell Moses and Mary, two enslaved people to some \"Southern Negro purchaser\" who would remove them from Virginia. Margaret wanted an injunction to prevent Sally from selling Moses and Mary.\n"," After Nathaniel Darby's death, the people Darby enslaved were left to Harriot B. Parker and Mary Parramore, his nieces. Included in the will were Hamtpon, Caleb, Benjamin, and Cato, four enslaved men who had fled to the British during the Revolutionary War. Their names had never been removed from Darby's will.   \n","John Yetman, Elizabeth Yetman's husband, was from Great Britain. He was the master of the schooner the  Mary Ann . He sailed the ship to the Port of Charleston in August 1818. On the return trip in September 1818, there was a gale of wind experienced in the part of the American Coast where the schooner would have been sailing. The  Mary Ann  was missing and believed to have been sunk by the gale.      \n","William R. Custis and Thomas Copper of Accomack County hired John C. Milburn to repair the Accomack County Jail and Jailor's house. Milburn was to be paid when he finished the job, however Milburn left the job site and did not return. Copper paid laborers wages for 8 to 10 days while they waited for Mr. Milburn to return. The materials that were purchased for the job were wasted. Custis wanted to be reimbursed for the money that was lost during Milburn's absence.\n","Margaret Williams, the widow of John Williams, had two enslaved people included in her dower who were carried away by the British in the War of 1812. Under the Treaty of Ghent she was allowed 280 dollars for one and 390 dollars for the other. She was to receive 402 dollars, which was then in the hands of Thomas Spady. Samuel S. Williams and the other plaintiffs were afraid Margaret would squander the money if Thomas Spady gave it to her. \n","  Edmund James sold Thomas James a schooner named  Susan  or  Sukey . Thomas James claimed the schooner had rotten boards when he bought it and Edmund James was to pay for its repairs. The deposition of Thomas Dowty talked about how the schooner was blown on shore and he offered to get the boat off the shore. He describes the boat as being a pretty good boat that some timbers were good and some timbers were rotten.  Stephen Kellam said he heard the schooner leaked. Victor Ewing was paid to make repairs on the vessel by Edmund James said unseaworthy and gives a description of the vessel after it was blown ashore by the gale.\n","These suits concerned plots of land in Indian Town, Va., which belonged to the Gingaskin Indian Tribe. The Gingaskin Indian Tribe formerly held reservation land in Northampton County, however the General Assembly passed a law in 1813 to eliminate the reservation and divided the land between official members of the Gingaskin Indian Tribe. While three-fourths of individual Gingaskin owners held onto their land after 1813, most of those people were forced out after Nat Turner's insurrection in 1831 due to the fears of white inhabitants of further uprisings. See also  Northampton County (Va.) Land records relating to Gingaskin Indian lands, 1795-1815 "," Nancy White emancipated Daniel, Mary Senior, Abram (Abraham), and Leah, all enslaved individuals, in her will. They were given leave to settle outside Virginia. George Senior, Mary's son was freed in the 1852 suit and all of Leah's children were freed in the 1854 suit. \n","George seeks to prevent Thomas Hatton Kellam from selling him in the Southern Market. Sabra (or Sabrah), George's grandmother, was freed according to the 1800 will of Walter Hatton upon reaching the age of 31. Saraba' heirs were to be freed at age 31 as well. George wass not yet 31 years old at the time of the court case. The decree said that George could not be sold, but he could be hired out in any part of the Commonwealth until he became 31 years old and freed. According to the bill of complaint, Thomas C. Bunting and William J. Goffigon were \"engaged in supplying the Southern market in part, with persons of Color in the character of slaves.\" George was in the custody of the Jailor of Northampton County \"awaiting as he is informed and believes transportation to some slave market beyond the limits of the County of Accomac and the Commonwealth of Virginia.\"   \n","Richard Winder married Sallie M. Custis in 1851; however, he left their home in Accomack County in November 1861. Sallie stated that the Federal Forces were \"making an invasion of the County of Accomack\" when he left in 1861. Richard left her at home with two young children, a large farm and a population of enslaved people. She also accused her husband of adultery. Richard wanted a divorce because he believed his wife committed adultery, allegedly occuring during the Civil War. Richard was posted at Anderson Prison in Georgia and appears to have been a resident of Libby Prison until March 1865. The witnesses were questioned about his conduct when he returned home and Sallie's conduct when he was away.\n","John N. Brickhouse owed the Virginia Military Institute $164.98 for goods that were sold and delivered to him. Brickhouse and his executors had not paid the debt, so the Virginia Military Institute sued his estate in Northampton County, the location of Brickhouse's land. \n","John H. E. Smith left clear instructions in his will in regards to his burial. The will starts with instructions of how he wants to be buried and instructions of how and where to build the vault for his body.   Smith wanted to be buried in a metallic coffin, in a vault built entirely above ground on the highest point of land he owned. He had other instructions about his burial plot.","Ibby Jane Smith died in 1880 at the age of either 16 or 17. She was a pensioner of the United States as the heir of her father Seth Smith, alias Scott. Smith served in the Civil War as a member of the \"Colored Troops,\" but died in May of 1865. Since Seth and Leah, Ibby's mother, lived together while they were enslaved, Leah's family claimed that Ibby was illegitimate while Seth's family claimed that she was legitimate. The deposition of Jacob Fitchett tells how Leah brought Ibby Jane to the Freedman's Bureau at Town Fields in order to report her birth, making her his legitimate daughter. \n","The suit examines the difficulties of both previously enslaved people and their free children in post-War Virginia, especially in regards to \"legitimacy.\" As only \"legitimate\" children and spouses could inherit property, this case reveals the legal gray area many people of color inhabited due to the laws surrounding slavery and the family. Laws enacted to preserve control over Black bodies by the white population continued to inhibit people of color even after slavery had long since ended. \n","In a deposition included in this divorce suit, Henry Cypress was asked if he remembered when the couple had separated. He stated that \"they separated about Irish Potato planting time, February or March, of 1898. I remember only by the time Shelly Banks was frozen to death during the bid February Blizzard.\" Cypress also stated he \"was a member of an investigating committee of my church when Severn Spady was disciplined on account of the separation.\"\n"," The Capeville District's former school building was on one-fourth acre of land which was too small for the students, so the School Board bought a two and a half acre lot. The first petition asked to have the title of the land certified and recorded. The second petition was a request to sell the one-fourth acre of land they no longer needed. The land the School Board purchased was to be used for a new High School for white students.\n","There are no restrictions.\n","Library of Virginia\n","English\n"],"collection_title_tesim":["Northampton County (Va.) Chancery Causes, \n1721-1912"],"collection_ssim":["Northampton County (Va.) Chancery Causes, \n1721-1912"],"repository_ssm":["Library of Virginia"],"repository_ssim":["Library of Virginia"],"creator_ssm":["Northampton County (Va.) Circuit Court\n"],"creator_ssim":["Northampton County (Va.) Circuit Court\n"],"acqinfo_ssim":["These records came to the Library of Virginia in a transfer of court papers from Northampton County in 1999 under accession number 36506. Additional records were transferred to the Library of Virginia in 2008 under accession number 44020 and in 2009 under the accession number 44548.\n"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["Digital images; 50.57 cubic feet (110 boxes)"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eNorthampton County (Va.) 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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\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLocality History:\u003c/emph\u003e Northampton County was named probably for the English county, of which Obedience Robins, a prominent early resident of the Eastern Shore, was a native. The county, which originally included all of the peninsula south of Maryland and which was one of the eight shires, or counties, first enumerated in 1634, was first called Accomack. The General Assembly changed the name to Northampton County in 1643. Accomack County was created from Northampton County about 1663, but in October 1670, the General Assembly temporarily reunited the two counties as Northampton County. In November 1673, Accomack County was again separated from Northampton. The county seat is Eastville.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Historical Information\n"],"bioghist_tesim":["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:  Northampton County was named probably for the English county, of which Obedience Robins, a prominent early resident of the Eastern Shore, was a native. The county, which originally included all of the peninsula south of Maryland and which was one of the eight shires, or counties, first enumerated in 1634, was first called Accomack. The General Assembly changed the name to Northampton County in 1643. Accomack County was created from Northampton County about 1663, but in October 1670, the General Assembly temporarily reunited the two counties as Northampton County. In November 1673, Accomack County was again separated from Northampton. The county seat is Eastville.\n"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eNorthampton County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1721-1912. (Cite style of suit and chancery index no.). Local Government Records Collection, Northampton County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Northampton County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1721-1912. (Cite style of suit and chancery index no.). Local Government Records Collection, Northampton County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.\n"],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eNorthampton Chancery was processed in two separate batches; first, the pre-1813 records were processed by Library of Virginia staff in 2007 and then Library of Virginia staff completed processing the 1813-1912 records in 2014.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDigital images were generated by Crowley Micrographics in 2008 and Backstage Library Works in 2014 through the Library of Virginia's Circuit Court Records Preservation Program.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncoded by G. Crawford: 2008; Updated by J. 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Consult \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/local/results_all.asp?CountyID=VA197\"\u003e\"A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.\"\u003c/extref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditional unindexed post-1912 Chancery Causes may be found at the Northampton County Courthouse.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material\n"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Additional Northampton County Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia.  Consult  \"A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.\"","Additional unindexed post-1912 Chancery Causes may be found at the Northampton County Courthouse.\n"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eNorthampton County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1721-1912, 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\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDue to Northampton County's location on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, a recurrent theme across several chancery causes is naval warfare's impact upon citizens of Northampton. Examples include men impressed into the British Navy during the Revolutionary War and War of 1812, as well as enslaved men fleeing to the British Navy during the Revolutionary War. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e These records also contain a fairly substantial amount of information concerning enslaved Black men, women, and children. While there are several suits concerning the freedom of enslaved individuals, these cases largely represent the perspective of white enslavers and their disputes involving the sale, hiring, financial responsibilities, and legality of ownership of Black individuals. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e There are several cases 1831-1832, that relate to members of the Gingaskin Indian Tribe [Accomac Indian Tribe] and specifically document attempts to hold on to their land after white officials and inhabitants terminated their reservation and later took Gingaskin land after the Southampton Rebellion [Nat Turner's Rebellion]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe suit was centered on the mental capacity of Hannah Preeson in the years before her death. Hannah was described as being afflicted by epilepsy and convulsions and at question was whether she had been capable of managing her estate. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the suit, an infant child suffered from a sore leg and died. The physician was accused of malpractice. References were made to salivation treatment.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArthur Robins was the father of Joshua, the plaintiff as well as  Arthur, the defendant. His will was placed in a drawer prior to his death. Anna Robins, his widow, went to find the will after his death, only to find it missing. Arthur, the eldest son, planned to claim his father's entire estate according to the Law of Primogeniture.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis suit concerned the property of Isaac Simkins. Isaac had been missing since 1796. His brothers and sisters wanted to divide his property. According to the depositions of Isaac's brother, Arthur Simkins as well as the deposition of James Travis, Isaac was impressed to serve on board of a British Man of War in June 1796. Arthur Simkins, Isaac's brother, heard that Isaac died shortly after he was impressed in to the British Navy.\n\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Read died in Accomack County; he was survived by Sally Read, his widow, and Margaret L. Read, his daughter. Margaret was worried that Sally would sell Moses and Mary, two enslaved people to some \"Southern Negro purchaser\" who would remove them from Virginia. Margaret wanted an injunction to prevent Sally from selling Moses and Mary.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e After Nathaniel Darby's death, the people Darby enslaved were left to Harriot B. Parker and Mary Parramore, his nieces. Included in the will were Hamtpon, Caleb, Benjamin, and Cato, four enslaved men who had fled to the British during the Revolutionary War. Their names had never been removed from Darby's will.   \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Yetman, Elizabeth Yetman's husband, was from Great Britain. He was the master of the schooner the \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/title\u003e. He sailed the ship to the Port of Charleston in August 1818. On the return trip in September 1818, there was a gale of wind experienced in the part of the American Coast where the schooner would have been sailing. The \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/title\u003e was missing and believed to have been sunk by the gale.      \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam R. Custis and Thomas Copper of Accomack County hired John C. Milburn to repair the Accomack County Jail and Jailor's house. Milburn was to be paid when he finished the job, however Milburn left the job site and did not return. Copper paid laborers wages for 8 to 10 days while they waited for Mr. Milburn to return. The materials that were purchased for the job were wasted. Custis wanted to be reimbursed for the money that was lost during Milburn's absence.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Williams, the widow of John Williams, had two enslaved people included in her dower who were carried away by the British in the War of 1812. Under the Treaty of Ghent she was allowed 280 dollars for one and 390 dollars for the other. She was to receive 402 dollars, which was then in the hands of Thomas Spady. Samuel S. Williams and the other plaintiffs were afraid Margaret would squander the money if Thomas Spady gave it to her. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  Edmund James sold Thomas James a schooner named \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSusan\u003c/title\u003e or \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSukey\u003c/title\u003e. Thomas James claimed the schooner had rotten boards when he bought it and Edmund James was to pay for its repairs. The deposition of Thomas Dowty talked about how the schooner was blown on shore and he offered to get the boat off the shore. He describes the boat as being a pretty good boat that some timbers were good and some timbers were rotten.  Stephen Kellam said he heard the schooner leaked. Victor Ewing was paid to make repairs on the vessel by Edmund James said unseaworthy and gives a description of the vessel after it was blown ashore by the gale.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese suits concerned plots of land in Indian Town, Va., which belonged to the Gingaskin Indian Tribe. The Gingaskin Indian Tribe formerly held reservation land in Northampton County, however the General Assembly passed a law in 1813 to eliminate the reservation and divided the land between official members of the Gingaskin Indian Tribe. While three-fourths of individual Gingaskin owners held onto their land after 1813, most of those people were forced out after Nat Turner's insurrection in 1831 due to the fears of white inhabitants of further uprisings. See also \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=lva/vi04050.xml\"\u003eNorthampton County (Va.) Land records relating to Gingaskin Indian lands, 1795-1815 \u003c/extref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Nancy White emancipated Daniel, Mary Senior, Abram (Abraham), and Leah, all enslaved individuals, in her will. They were given leave to settle outside Virginia. George Senior, Mary's son was freed in the 1852 suit and all of Leah's children were freed in the 1854 suit. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge seeks to prevent Thomas Hatton Kellam from selling him in the Southern Market. Sabra (or Sabrah), George's grandmother, was freed according to the 1800 will of Walter Hatton upon reaching the age of 31. Saraba' heirs were to be freed at age 31 as well. George wass not yet 31 years old at the time of the court case. The decree said that George could not be sold, but he could be hired out in any part of the Commonwealth until he became 31 years old and freed. According to the bill of complaint, Thomas C. Bunting and William J. Goffigon were \"engaged in supplying the Southern market in part, with persons of Color in the character of slaves.\" George was in the custody of the Jailor of Northampton County \"awaiting as he is informed and believes transportation to some slave market beyond the limits of the County of Accomac and the Commonwealth of Virginia.\"   \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard Winder married Sallie M. Custis in 1851; however, he left their home in Accomack County in November 1861. Sallie stated that the Federal Forces were \"making an invasion of the County of Accomack\" when he left in 1861. Richard left her at home with two young children, a large farm and a population of enslaved people. She also accused her husband of adultery. Richard wanted a divorce because he believed his wife committed adultery, allegedly occuring during the Civil War. Richard was posted at Anderson Prison in Georgia and appears to have been a resident of Libby Prison until March 1865. The witnesses were questioned about his conduct when he returned home and Sallie's conduct when he was away.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn N. Brickhouse owed the Virginia Military Institute $164.98 for goods that were sold and delivered to him. Brickhouse and his executors had not paid the debt, so the Virginia Military Institute sued his estate in Northampton County, the location of Brickhouse's land. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. E. Smith left clear instructions in his will in regards to his burial. The will starts with instructions of how he wants to be buried and instructions of how and where to build the vault for his body.   Smith wanted to be buried in a metallic coffin, in a vault built entirely above ground on the highest point of land he owned. He had other instructions about his burial plot.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIbby Jane Smith died in 1880 at the age of either 16 or 17. She was a pensioner of the United States as the heir of her father Seth Smith, alias Scott. Smith served in the Civil War as a member of the \"Colored Troops,\" but died in May of 1865. Since Seth and Leah, Ibby's mother, lived together while they were enslaved, Leah's family claimed that Ibby was illegitimate while Seth's family claimed that she was legitimate. The deposition of Jacob Fitchett tells how Leah brought Ibby Jane to the Freedman's Bureau at Town Fields in order to report her birth, making her his legitimate daughter. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe suit examines the difficulties of both previously enslaved people and their free children in post-War Virginia, especially in regards to \"legitimacy.\" As only \"legitimate\" children and spouses could inherit property, this case reveals the legal gray area many people of color inhabited due to the laws surrounding slavery and the family. Laws enacted to preserve control over Black bodies by the white population continued to inhibit people of color even after slavery had long since ended. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn a deposition included in this divorce suit, Henry Cypress was asked if he remembered when the couple had separated. He stated that \"they separated about Irish Potato planting time, February or March, of 1898. I remember only by the time Shelly Banks was frozen to death during the bid February Blizzard.\" Cypress also stated he \"was a member of an investigating committee of my church when Severn Spady was disciplined on account of the separation.\"\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e The Capeville District's former school building was on one-fourth acre of land which was too small for the students, so the School Board bought a two and a half acre lot. The first petition asked to have the title of the land certified and recorded. The second petition was a request to sell the one-fourth acre of land they no longer needed. The land the School Board purchased was to be used for a new High School for white students.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Northampton County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1721-1912, 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","Due to Northampton County's location on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, a recurrent theme across several chancery causes is naval warfare's impact upon citizens of Northampton. Examples include men impressed into the British Navy during the Revolutionary War and War of 1812, as well as enslaved men fleeing to the British Navy during the Revolutionary War. "," These records also contain a fairly substantial amount of information concerning enslaved Black men, women, and children. While there are several suits concerning the freedom of enslaved individuals, these cases largely represent the perspective of white enslavers and their disputes involving the sale, hiring, financial responsibilities, and legality of ownership of Black individuals. "," There are several cases 1831-1832, that relate to members of the Gingaskin Indian Tribe [Accomac Indian Tribe] and specifically document attempts to hold on to their land after white officials and inhabitants terminated their reservation and later took Gingaskin land after the Southampton Rebellion [Nat Turner's Rebellion]","The suit was centered on the mental capacity of Hannah Preeson in the years before her death. Hannah was described as being afflicted by epilepsy and convulsions and at question was whether she had been capable of managing her estate. \n","In the suit, an infant child suffered from a sore leg and died. The physician was accused of malpractice. References were made to salivation treatment.\n","Arthur Robins was the father of Joshua, the plaintiff as well as  Arthur, the defendant. His will was placed in a drawer prior to his death. Anna Robins, his widow, went to find the will after his death, only to find it missing. Arthur, the eldest son, planned to claim his father's entire estate according to the Law of Primogeniture.\n","This suit concerned the property of Isaac Simkins. Isaac had been missing since 1796. His brothers and sisters wanted to divide his property. According to the depositions of Isaac's brother, Arthur Simkins as well as the deposition of James Travis, Isaac was impressed to serve on board of a British Man of War in June 1796. Arthur Simkins, Isaac's brother, heard that Isaac died shortly after he was impressed in to the British Navy.\n\n","John H. Read died in Accomack County; he was survived by Sally Read, his widow, and Margaret L. Read, his daughter. Margaret was worried that Sally would sell Moses and Mary, two enslaved people to some \"Southern Negro purchaser\" who would remove them from Virginia. Margaret wanted an injunction to prevent Sally from selling Moses and Mary.\n"," After Nathaniel Darby's death, the people Darby enslaved were left to Harriot B. Parker and Mary Parramore, his nieces. Included in the will were Hamtpon, Caleb, Benjamin, and Cato, four enslaved men who had fled to the British during the Revolutionary War. Their names had never been removed from Darby's will.   \n","John Yetman, Elizabeth Yetman's husband, was from Great Britain. He was the master of the schooner the  Mary Ann . He sailed the ship to the Port of Charleston in August 1818. On the return trip in September 1818, there was a gale of wind experienced in the part of the American Coast where the schooner would have been sailing. The  Mary Ann  was missing and believed to have been sunk by the gale.      \n","William R. Custis and Thomas Copper of Accomack County hired John C. Milburn to repair the Accomack County Jail and Jailor's house. Milburn was to be paid when he finished the job, however Milburn left the job site and did not return. Copper paid laborers wages for 8 to 10 days while they waited for Mr. Milburn to return. The materials that were purchased for the job were wasted. Custis wanted to be reimbursed for the money that was lost during Milburn's absence.\n","Margaret Williams, the widow of John Williams, had two enslaved people included in her dower who were carried away by the British in the War of 1812. Under the Treaty of Ghent she was allowed 280 dollars for one and 390 dollars for the other. She was to receive 402 dollars, which was then in the hands of Thomas Spady. Samuel S. Williams and the other plaintiffs were afraid Margaret would squander the money if Thomas Spady gave it to her. \n","  Edmund James sold Thomas James a schooner named  Susan  or  Sukey . Thomas James claimed the schooner had rotten boards when he bought it and Edmund James was to pay for its repairs. The deposition of Thomas Dowty talked about how the schooner was blown on shore and he offered to get the boat off the shore. He describes the boat as being a pretty good boat that some timbers were good and some timbers were rotten.  Stephen Kellam said he heard the schooner leaked. Victor Ewing was paid to make repairs on the vessel by Edmund James said unseaworthy and gives a description of the vessel after it was blown ashore by the gale.\n","These suits concerned plots of land in Indian Town, Va., which belonged to the Gingaskin Indian Tribe. The Gingaskin Indian Tribe formerly held reservation land in Northampton County, however the General Assembly passed a law in 1813 to eliminate the reservation and divided the land between official members of the Gingaskin Indian Tribe. While three-fourths of individual Gingaskin owners held onto their land after 1813, most of those people were forced out after Nat Turner's insurrection in 1831 due to the fears of white inhabitants of further uprisings. See also  Northampton County (Va.) Land records relating to Gingaskin Indian lands, 1795-1815 "," Nancy White emancipated Daniel, Mary Senior, Abram (Abraham), and Leah, all enslaved individuals, in her will. They were given leave to settle outside Virginia. George Senior, Mary's son was freed in the 1852 suit and all of Leah's children were freed in the 1854 suit. \n","George seeks to prevent Thomas Hatton Kellam from selling him in the Southern Market. Sabra (or Sabrah), George's grandmother, was freed according to the 1800 will of Walter Hatton upon reaching the age of 31. Saraba' heirs were to be freed at age 31 as well. George wass not yet 31 years old at the time of the court case. The decree said that George could not be sold, but he could be hired out in any part of the Commonwealth until he became 31 years old and freed. According to the bill of complaint, Thomas C. Bunting and William J. Goffigon were \"engaged in supplying the Southern market in part, with persons of Color in the character of slaves.\" George was in the custody of the Jailor of Northampton County \"awaiting as he is informed and believes transportation to some slave market beyond the limits of the County of Accomac and the Commonwealth of Virginia.\"   \n","Richard Winder married Sallie M. Custis in 1851; however, he left their home in Accomack County in November 1861. Sallie stated that the Federal Forces were \"making an invasion of the County of Accomack\" when he left in 1861. Richard left her at home with two young children, a large farm and a population of enslaved people. She also accused her husband of adultery. Richard wanted a divorce because he believed his wife committed adultery, allegedly occuring during the Civil War. Richard was posted at Anderson Prison in Georgia and appears to have been a resident of Libby Prison until March 1865. The witnesses were questioned about his conduct when he returned home and Sallie's conduct when he was away.\n","John N. Brickhouse owed the Virginia Military Institute $164.98 for goods that were sold and delivered to him. Brickhouse and his executors had not paid the debt, so the Virginia Military Institute sued his estate in Northampton County, the location of Brickhouse's land. \n","John H. E. Smith left clear instructions in his will in regards to his burial. The will starts with instructions of how he wants to be buried and instructions of how and where to build the vault for his body.   Smith wanted to be buried in a metallic coffin, in a vault built entirely above ground on the highest point of land he owned. He had other instructions about his burial plot.","Ibby Jane Smith died in 1880 at the age of either 16 or 17. She was a pensioner of the United States as the heir of her father Seth Smith, alias Scott. Smith served in the Civil War as a member of the \"Colored Troops,\" but died in May of 1865. Since Seth and Leah, Ibby's mother, lived together while they were enslaved, Leah's family claimed that Ibby was illegitimate while Seth's family claimed that she was legitimate. The deposition of Jacob Fitchett tells how Leah brought Ibby Jane to the Freedman's Bureau at Town Fields in order to report her birth, making her his legitimate daughter. \n","The suit examines the difficulties of both previously enslaved people and their free children in post-War Virginia, especially in regards to \"legitimacy.\" As only \"legitimate\" children and spouses could inherit property, this case reveals the legal gray area many people of color inhabited due to the laws surrounding slavery and the family. Laws enacted to preserve control over Black bodies by the white population continued to inhibit people of color even after slavery had long since ended. \n","In a deposition included in this divorce suit, Henry Cypress was asked if he remembered when the couple had separated. He stated that \"they separated about Irish Potato planting time, February or March, of 1898. I remember only by the time Shelly Banks was frozen to death during the bid February Blizzard.\" Cypress also stated he \"was a member of an investigating committee of my church when Severn Spady was disciplined on account of the separation.\"\n"," The Capeville District's former school building was on one-fourth acre of land which was too small for the students, so the School Board bought a two and a half acre lot. The first petition asked to have the title of the land certified and recorded. The second petition was a request to sell the one-fourth acre of land they no longer needed. 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Coroners' Inquisitions, 1728-1868, are available on the Virginia Untold: the African American Narrative web site. Please use digital images.","This collection is arranged into the following series:\n","Series I: Coroners Inquisitions, 1728-1868, chronological by date coroner filed inquisition in the local court.","Chronological by date coroner filed inquisition in the local court.\n","Context for Record Type:  \nA carry over from the British system, the separate office of coroner appeared in Virginia about 1660. The judicial duty of the office was to hold inquisitions in cases when persons met a sudden, violent, unnatural or suspicious death, or death without medical attendance. The law did not encourage the Coroner to be a medical professional until the 20th century, and only stipulated that the local court be responsible for the appointment. Although not reliant on profession, this system of affluent white men making the decisions largely ensured that only other white men served in this position for much of its history\n","Prior to the Civil War, the coroner would summon a jury of twelve white men, usually prominent citizens of that locality, to assist him in determining cause of death. The jury viewed the body of the deceased and heard the testimony of witnesses which did include both white and Black perspectives. This witness testimony was recorded and after seeing and hearing the evidence, and unlike other judicial proceedings, enslaved people could provide depositions in coroner's inquisitions, but still, an all-white jury delivered in writing to the coroner their conclusion concerning cause of death referred to as the inquisition. These causes of death would be determined by a white perspective and Black individuals were only consulted; they were never in a position to make decisions. After the Civil War, the process remained the same but the racial distinctions stipulating jury eligibility no longer remained. However, as appointments still continued and juror eligibility reserved for those \"entitled to vote and hold office,\" the authority and influence in the hands of white citizens remained throughout the late 19th and early 20th century.","In 1877, an act of the General Assembly changed the number of jurors to six, and by 1926, only the coroner determined cause of death but they could require physicians to assist them with determining cause of death. Then in 1946, the General Assembly abolished the Coroner's office/ office of Coroner's Physician altogether, appointed instead a Chief Medical Examiner, and by 1950 transitioned to a statewide Office of the Chief Medical Examiner which now lives within the Department of Health.","If a criminal act was determined to be the cause of death, the coroner delivered the guilty person to the sheriff and the inquests would be used as evidence in the criminal trial. In this case, coroner's inquisitions were filed with the trial papers. If there was not a trial, coroner's inquisitions were filed separately and are more likely to appear in this collection as a standalone set of documents.","Locality History: Northampton County was named probably for the English county, of which Obedience Robins, a prominent early resident of the Eastern Shore, was a native. The county, which originally included all of the peninsula south of Maryland and which was one of the eight shires, or counties, first enumerated in 1634, was first called Accomack. The General Assembly changed the name to Northampton County in 1643. Accomack County was created from Northampton County about 1663, but in October 1670, the General Assembly temporarily reunited the two counties as Northampton County. In November 1673, Accomack County was again separated from Northampton. The county seat is Eastville.\n","Northampton County Coroners' Inquisitions were processed and indexed in 2014 for the purpose of inclusion in Virginia Untold. In April 2026, the indexing was updated by M. Long for consistency with the main Coroners' Inquisitions Digital Collection.","Encoded by G. Crawford, August 2014; updated by M. Long, April 2026.","Records related to enslaved and free Black and Multiracial individuals of Northampton County and other localities are available through  Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative   on the Library of Virginia website.","Additional Northampton County court records can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. Consult  \"A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.\"","Materials in the Library of Virginia's collections contain historical terms, phrases, and images that are offensive to modern readers. These include demeaning and dehumanizing references to race, ethnicity, and nationality; enslaved or free status; physical and mental ability; religion; sex; and sexual orientation and gender identity.","Coroners' Inquisitions contain graphic and in some cases violent or otherwise disturbing descriptions of death.","Northampton County (Va.) 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These causes of death would be determined by a white perspective and Black individuals were only consulted; they were never in a position to make decisions. After the Civil War, the process remained the same but the racial distinctions stipulating jury eligibility no longer remained. However, as appointments still continued and juror eligibility reserved for those \"entitled to vote and hold office,\" the authority and influence in the hands of white citizens remained throughout the late 19th and early 20th century.","In 1877, an act of the General Assembly changed the number of jurors to six, and by 1926, only the coroner determined cause of death but they could require physicians to assist them with determining cause of death. Then in 1946, the General Assembly abolished the Coroner's office/ office of Coroner's Physician altogether, appointed instead a Chief Medical Examiner, and by 1950 transitioned to a statewide Office of the Chief Medical Examiner which now lives within the Department of Health.","If a criminal act was determined to be the cause of death, the coroner delivered the guilty person to the sheriff and the inquests would be used as evidence in the criminal trial. In this case, coroner's inquisitions were filed with the trial papers. If there was not a trial, coroner's inquisitions were filed separately and are more likely to appear in this collection as a standalone set of documents.","Locality History: Northampton County was named probably for the English county, of which Obedience Robins, a prominent early resident of the Eastern Shore, was a native. 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Long, April 2026.","Records related to enslaved and free Black and Multiracial individuals of Northampton County and other localities are available through  Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative   on the Library of Virginia website.","Additional Northampton County court records can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. Consult  \"A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.\"","Materials in the Library of Virginia's collections contain historical terms, phrases, and images that are offensive to modern readers. These include demeaning and dehumanizing references to race, ethnicity, and nationality; enslaved or free status; physical and mental ability; religion; sex; and sexual orientation and gender identity.","Coroners' Inquisitions contain graphic and in some cases violent or otherwise disturbing descriptions of death.","Northampton County (Va.) 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This witness testimony was recorded and after seeing and hearing the evidence, and unlike other judicial proceedings, enslaved people could provide depositions in coroner's inquisitions, but still, an all-white jury delivered in writing to the coroner their conclusion concerning cause of death referred to as the inquisition. These causes of death would be determined by a white perspective and Black individuals were only consulted; they were never in a position to make decisions. After the Civil War, the process remained the same but the racial distinctions stipulating jury eligibility no longer remained. 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In November 1673, Accomack County was again separated from Northampton. The county seat is Eastville. ","Declarations for Revolutionary War Pensions, 1832-1833 were removed from the Northampton County Court papers and processed by Library of Virginia staff, and were later reprocessed and indexed as a distinct unit by M. Long.\n","Encoded by G. Crawford: August 2014; updated by M. Long: December 2023.\n","See also the  Northampton County (Va.) Military and Pension Records, 1729-1952 (bulk 1729-1885)  at the Library of Virginia.","Additional Northampton County Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia. Consult   \"A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.\"","Northampton County (Va.) Declarations for Revolutionary War Pensions, 1832-1833 primarily record the declarations of individuals seeking to obtain Revolutionary War pensions provided by various acts of Congress. 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Accomack County was created from Northampton County about 1663, but in October 1670, the General Assembly temporarily reunited the two counties as Northampton County. In November 1673, Accomack County was again separated from Northampton. The county seat is Eastville.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Historical Information\n"],"bioghist_tesim":["Context for Record Type:   Keeping large bodies of militia in the field required an elaborate system of support based on the purchase of goods and services from civilians, in addition to the usual pay and allowances to officers and soldiers. The result was the creation of a large number of records concerning the state's disbursements to both soldiers and civilians. Many claims for payment went unsatisfied until 1821. Locality military and pension records consist largely of pay and muster rolls, accounts and vouchers concerning supplies, claims for reimbursement for services rendered, and military pension applications. Pension applications summarize the applicant's service record and may include medical evaluations; information about income and property; and, in the case of widows, the date and place of marriages.","During the Revolutionary War, commissioners were appointed in each county to impress supplies and non-military services (such as driving cattle or wagons) for the war effort. Officials provided certificates or receipts so that individual suppliers could be reimbursed by the state government. Beginning in 1782, claims for reimbursement could be submitted to county courts. These \"publick claims,\" known as court booklets and lists, exist for almost all Virginia counties. Between 1777 and 1785, the Virginia General Assembly passed several laws authorizing pensions for disabled soldiers and for widows of soldiers who died while on active duty.","Throughout the Civil War, the principal responsibility for Virginia's indigent soldiers' families lay with the locality. The Virginia State Convention in 1861 gave the responsibility entirely to counties and incorporated towns and authorized whatever actions had already been taken. Acts of Assembly in 1862 and 1863 expanded the localities' powers to provide for their needy, and in 1863 some minimal state assistance was added in. The Virginia General Assembly passed several Confederate pension acts beginning in 1888. The initial act provided pensions to Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines disabled in action and to the widows of those killed in action. A 1900 act broadened the coverage to include veterans disabled by \"infirmities of age\" and widows whose husbands died after the war. African Americans who had served \"faithfully\" as servants, cooks, laborers, hostlers, or teamsters for the Confederate army were eligible for pensions beginning in 1924. District of Columbia residents became eligible in 1926; previously, all pension applicants were required to be residents of Virginia.","Locality History:    Northampton County was named probably for the English county, of which Obedience Robins, a prominent early resident of the Eastern Shore, was a native. The county, which originally included all of the peninsula south of Maryland and which was one of the eight shires, or counties, first enumerated in 1634, was first called Accomack. The General Assembly changed the name to Northampton County in 1643. Accomack County was created from Northampton County about 1663, but in October 1670, the General Assembly temporarily reunited the two counties as Northampton County. In November 1673, Accomack County was again separated from Northampton. The county seat is Eastville.\n"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eNorthampton County (Va.) Military and Pension Records, 1729-1952 (bulk 1729-1885). 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Long: February 2025.\n"],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSee also the \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=lva/vi04761.xml\"\u003eNorthampton County (Va.) Declarations for Revolutionary War Pensions, 1832-1833\n\u003c/extref\u003e at the Library of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditional Northampton County Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia. Consult  \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/local/local_rec/index.htm\"\u003e\"A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.\"\u003c/extref\u003e \n\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material\n"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["See also the  Northampton County (Va.) Declarations for Revolutionary War Pensions, 1832-1833\n  at the Library of Virginia.","Additional Northampton County Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia. Consult   \"A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.\""],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e Northampton County (Va.) Military and Pension Records, 1729-1952 (bulk 1729-1885), consist of military service records, accounts and vouchers, and claims for reimbursement by civilians and service members. These include:\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCounty militia papers, 1729-1813, includes lists of officers, oaths of office, appointments, resignations, fines, court orders, and accounts. 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Of particular note was a 1729 fine levied at a Multiracial man named Jacob Chapley for failing to appear for muster and a 1769 court martial order for military supplies to be purchased for men who were to poor to own their own weapons.","French and Indian War issues papers, 1755, consists of a document calling for the enlistment of men to fight the French on the Ohio River.","Pension papers, 1834-1885, consists of records related to veterans and their families seeking reimbursement, service rewards, or other support promised by the government in recognition of their time in the military. Most papers include regiment, commanding officer names, and other details about wartime service. 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