New Kent County (Va.) Records, circa 1820-1936

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:

There are no restrictions.

Terms of access:

There are no restrictions.

Preferred citation:

New Kent County (Va.) Records, circa 1820-1936. Local government records collection, New Kent County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219.

Summary

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

New Kent County (Va.) Records, circa 1820-1936. Local government records collection, New Kent County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219.

Background

Scope and content:

New Kent County (Va.) Records, circa 1820-1936, consist of the following series: Court Records (subfield series include Jury Records), Bonds/Commissions/Oaths, Land Records, Wills, Miscelleanous Records, Tax and Fiscal Records, Justice of the Peace Records, Business Records and Election Records.

Court Records, Bonds/Commissions/Oaths, Land Records, Wills and Miscellaneous Records.

Tax and Fiscal Records: Accounts Against the Commonwealth, circa 1890-1900 , Court Records: County Court and Superior Court of Law, Justice of the Peace Records: Summons, 1859, 1870-1925; Witnesses, 1858-1884, 1893-1898; Attendance, 1853-1871; Jury Records, 1827-1922 (includes accession number 43653) and Grand Jury Presentments, circa 1820 -1925.

Business Records/Corporations/Partnerships; Election Records; Miscellaneous Records: Liens; Tax and Fiscal Records; Land Records: Unrecorded Deeds, 1893-1908.

Biographical / historical:

New Kent County may have been named for the English county of Kent or for Kent Island, in the upper waters of the Chesapeake Bay. The county was formed from York County in 1654. Part of James City County was added on 1 May 1767.

Records were destroyed when John Posey set fire to the courthouse on 15 July 1787. Many records were lost when the courthouse was partially destroyed by fire during the Civil War hostilities in 1862. Additional records were burned on 3 April 1865, in Richmond, where they had been moved for safekeeping during the Civil War.

Acquisition information:
These records came to the Library of Virginia in a transfer of court records from New Kent County under the accession numbers 42124,43653 and 45139.
Physical location:
Library of Virginia
Physical description:
3 boxes; 1 box found at Library of Virginia (1157988) and 2 boxes (0007346164,1045028) found at the State Records Center--Archives Annex, Library of Virginia.