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Northampton County (Va.) Free and Enslaved Records, 1737-1860, consist of “Free Negro” Tax records, 1804, 1807, Judgments, 1855-1859, Patrol Records, 1806-1808, Tax and Fiscal Records, 1757, and additional records of various types, 1737-1860.

Northampton County (Va.) Judgments, 1655-1816, consist of civil suits in which justice was administered on the strictly formulated rules of common law. The majority of the cases relate to matters of debt.

Northampton County (Va.) Land records relating to Gingaskin Indian lands, 1795-1815, consist of three documents. The first is an investigation of persons including free negroes living on Gingaskin lands and their claims to title (1795); the second is a report of commissioners appointed to divide the lands of the Gingaskin tribe of Indians which gives names of the persons to whom the reservation was divided between (1814); and the third is a settlement with the Gingaskin Indians for costs associated with surveying their reservations for division amongst the remaining members (1815).

Marriage Register, 1706-1853, records marriages in the county from the early eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. This volume, compiled from marriage bonds and licenses, contains the following information: the date of the marriage bond or license, the full name of both parties, the race of the party (designated by FN for Free Negro or col. for colored) the wife's condition before the marriage, the husband's place of residence and the names of the wife's parents. There are notes found at the beginning of the volume from the compiler. X indicates marriages for which there are no bonds only licenses. XX indicates marriages for which there are no bonds or licenses but where listed in book found in clerk's office, "Marriage Records 1791-1854--Northampton County." The volume is arranged into two sections. The listings are based on the alphabetical letter of the husband's surname and then the wife's surname, A-Y. There is no chronological arrangement to the listings and no index to the volume. Free Negro or colored marriages are noted from 1791-1853. This register is also referred to as "A List of Marriage Bonds and Licenses, 1706-1853." This volume is also found on microfilm, Reel 62.

Northampton County (Va.) Records, 1671-1841, consist of the following records series: Court Records, Land Records, Fiduciary Records, Bonds/Commissions/Oaths, Health and Medical Records, Naturalization Records, Overseers of the Poor Records, Public Buildings and Grounds Records, Tax and Fiscal Records, and Miscellaneous Records.