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Fairfax County (Va.) County Court Minute Book, 1749-1751

Fairfax County (Va.) Circuit Court.

Fairfax County (Va.) County Court Minute Book, 1749-1751, along with closely related court records such as order books, records all matters brought before the court when it was in session and may contain important information not found anywhere else. Generally minute books contain brief entries as they were the clerk of court's rough draft that would later be transcribed into an order book. A locality's loose papers are the raw materials from which this type of book was created. Like order books, a wide variety of information is found in its pages including: appointments of county officers, appointments of guardians and administrators, records of legal disputes heard before the court, recordation of deeds and wills, estate settlements, wolf bounties, licenses for ordinary keepers, road surveys, and matters related to the fiscal management of the court.

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