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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.","Types of Courts:","Wythe County was the site of a Superior Court of Chancery that held court in Wythe from 1812 to 1832. The Superior Courts of Chancery were created by an act of the General Assembly passed on 23 January 1802. In order to expedite the hearing of chancery suits, the High Court of Chancery was abolished and the state was divided into three chancery districts with a Superior Court of Chancery for each district. For this reason, these courts were sometimes called \"District Courts of Chancery.\" Suits heard in these courts were typically cases appealed from the local courts. A transcript of the suit from the local court was commonly filed with the appeal. Litigants could by-pass the local courts and file their suits in the chancery district court directly.","From 1802 to 1812, Wythe fell into the Staunton district which consisted of localities found in the western half of the Commonwealth. In 1812, the General Assembly created additional Superior Courts of Chancery which included the Superior Court of Chancery in Wythe. The Wythe district include the counties of: Giles, Grayson, Lee, Montgomery, Russell, Scott, Tazewell, Washington, and Wythe.","Locality History: Wythe County was named for George Wythe, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and chancellor of Virginia in 1789 when Wythe County was formed from Montgomery County. Part of Grayson County was added in 1825.","Digital images were generated by Backstage Library Works through the Library of Virginia's Circuit Court Records Preservation Program in 2024.","Field processors completed original indexing throughout the 1990s-2000s. During reprocessing by Local Records staff, indexing was completed to Library of Virginia Standards, this required the moving of chancery causes to different years; changing styles of suit for individual causes; and combining and/or separating causes when necessary. Local Records staff also located non-chancery cases during reprocessing (including judgements and commonwealth causes) which were removed from the chancery and filed separately by record type.","During reprocessing, Local Records staff removed paper folders that contained notations and cross-references to information contain in volumes stored Wythe County Circuit Court house. These notes were not destroyed but are not digitized.","Wythe Chancery causes, 1797-1830, were processed by M. Mason and V. Brooks. Causes, 1831-1865, were processed by M. Long from March 2022 to July 2023.","Wythe County (Va.) Chancery Causes 1797-1865 are the first half of the chancery records for the locality to be processed. There are plans for Local Records Staff to later process the 1866-1912 records.","Encoded by M. Mason:  August, 2024.","Additional Wythe County Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia web site. Consult A Guide to Virgnia County and City Records on Microfilm","Wythe County (Va.) Chancery Causes,1797-1865, 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.","For this set of causes, debt and contract suits are the most prevalent, and mostly concern disputes stemming from land transfers. Estate disputes are the next most documented cause of action. There are very few other causes of action represented.","Superior Chancery:","A majority of the 1812-1833 Chancery Causes are Superior Chancery cases. These causes while heard in Wythe County (Va.) additionally document the activities of individuals and businesses from Giles, Grayson, Lee, Montgomery, Russell, Scott, Tazewell, and Washington counties. Apart from Wythe County, Washington County is the locality most documented in these records.","Due to the prevalence of Superior Chancery, there are also variations in the causes themselves that may not fit the normal make-up of a chancery cause as there causes throughout this 1812-1833 span that have matters heard in both Superior Court of Chancery and the Superior Court of Law. General this occurred when an issue in chancery was sent by the judge to law side of the court for verdict before a final decree was entered in Chancery.","General Trends:","There is a substantial amount of information concerning enslaved Black men, women, and children. 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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.","For this set of causes, debt and contract suits are the most prevalent, and mostly concern disputes stemming from land transfers. Estate disputes are the next most documented cause of action. There are very few other causes of action represented.","Superior Chancery:","A majority of the 1812-1833 Chancery Causes are Superior Chancery cases. These causes while heard in Wythe County (Va.) additionally document the activities of individuals and businesses from Giles, Grayson, Lee, Montgomery, Russell, Scott, Tazewell, and Washington counties. 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The Wythe district include the counties of: Giles, Grayson, Lee, Montgomery, Russell, Scott, Tazewell, Washington, and Wythe.","Locality History: Wythe County was named for George Wythe, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and chancellor of Virginia in 1789 when Wythe County was formed from Montgomery County. Part of Grayson County was added in 1825.","Digital images were generated by Backstage Library Works through the Library of Virginia's Circuit Court Records Preservation Program in 2024.","Field processors completed original indexing throughout the 1990s-2000s. During reprocessing by Local Records staff, indexing was completed to Library of Virginia Standards, this required the moving of chancery causes to different years; changing styles of suit for individual causes; and combining and/or separating causes when necessary. Local Records staff also located non-chancery cases during reprocessing (including judgements and commonwealth causes) which were removed from the chancery and filed separately by record type.","During reprocessing, Local Records staff removed paper folders that contained notations and cross-references to information contain in volumes stored Wythe County Circuit Court house. These notes were not destroyed but are not digitized.","Wythe Chancery causes, 1797-1830, were processed by M. Mason and V. Brooks. Causes, 1831-1865, were processed by M. Long from March 2022 to July 2023.","Wythe County (Va.) Chancery Causes 1797-1865 are the first half of the chancery records for the locality to be processed. There are plans for Local Records Staff to later process the 1866-1912 records.","Encoded by M. Mason:  August, 2024.","Additional Wythe County Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia web site. 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