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      <titleproper>A Guide to the Northumberland County (Va.) Circuit Court. Records, <date era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1740-1838</date></titleproper>
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      <unittitle label="Title">Northumberland County (Va.) Circuit Court. Records,
<unitdate type="inclusive" label="Date" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1740-1838
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      <unitid label="Accession number">41008
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      <physdesc label="Physical Characteristics">Miscellaneous reel 4611
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      <origination label="Collector">Robert Alonzo Brock
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        <p>Collection is open to research.
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        <p>Northumberland County (Va.) Circuit Court. Records, 1740-1838, Robert Alonzo Brock Collection, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
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        <p>The Robert Alonzo Brock Collection was filmed by The Huntington Library in cooperation with The Library of Virginia with funding provided by The Library of Virginia Foundation with the support of The Roller-
Bottimore Foundation and The Robins Foundation. Microfilm received 15 April 2004.
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      <p>Northumberland County was formed in 1645 from the district of Chickacoan, the early seventeenth century name for the region between the Potomac and the Rappahannock Rivers. It was probably named for the English
county.
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      <p>Records, 1740-1838, of Northumberland County Circuit Court consist of the affidavit of John S. Kesterson in which testifies about the relatives of Timothy Law (1838); an inquest (1772); a complaint filed in a
judgment suit (1740); and miscellaneous papers related to research on the Lee family.
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        <subject>Inquisitiones post mortem--Virginia--Northumberland County
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        <subject>Public records--Virginia--Northumberland County.
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        <geogname>Northumberland County (Va.)--History.
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        <genreform>Affidavits--Virginia--Northumberland County.
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        <genreform>Judicial records--Virginia--Northumberland County.
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        <genreform>Judgments--Virginia--Northumberland County.
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        <persname>Brock, R. A. (Robert Alonzo), 1839-1914, collector.
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