Lunenburg County (Va.) Court Records, 1825-1886

Access and use

Location of collection:
Library of Virginia
The Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Archives Reference Services
Phone: (804) 692-3888
Restrictions:

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Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

Lunenburg County (Va.) Court Records, 1825-1886. Local government records collection, Lunenburg County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219.

Summary

Creator:
Lunenburg County (Va.) Circuit Court.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Lunenburg County (Va.) Court Records, 1825-1886. Local government records collection, Lunenburg County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219.

Background

Scope and content:

Lunenburg County (Va.) Court Records, 1825-1886, consist of records arranged into the following series: court records, free negro and slave records, and military and pension records.

Court records consist of communications with the Freedmen's Bureau and Military District of Virginia officials about county and court business, 1867 and 1869. Subjects include setting up a military court in Lunenburg in lieu of the county court, payment for government horse shoeing, and a situation in which two African Americans had been murdered.

Free negro and slave records consist of the sale of runaway slave Jack (1825) and the registration of free negro Drury Cooper after the destruction or loss of his original papers (1855).

Military and pension records include reports about monies received to furnish and clothe volunteer county military companies (1861-1684) which mainly are accounts of items purchased and their cost, but also contains a lengthy 1862 report from the captain of the Pryor Rifle Company that gives a report of their military activities and details loss or damage to supplies. Also included are Reports of indigent families of soldiers from 1864 who would be supported by the county, and the Confederate pension application of Marion J. Moore from 1886 including affidavits supporting his service claims.

Biographical / historical:

Lunenburg County was named for George II, duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, a German possession of the Hanoverian kings of England. It was formed from Brunswick County in 1745.

Acquisition information:
These items came to the Library of Virginia in transfers of court papers from Lunenburg County.
Arrangement:

Organized by series.

Physical location:
Library of Virginia
Physical description:
.11 cu. ft. (7 folders)