PUBLIC "-//Library of Virginia//TEXT (US::Vi::vi03594::A Guide to the Nansemond County (Va.) Land Records, 1734-1962)//EN" "vi03594.xml" A Guide to the Nansemond County (Va.) Land Records, 1734-1962 Nansemond County (Va.) Land Records, 1734-1962 1141957-1141981, 1149974, 1150970, 1150971 Bari Helms Library of Virginia © 2012 By The Library of Virginia. All Rights Reserved.

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Machine-readable finding aid derived from being created directly into EAD, created by Bari Helms, 28 June 2012 Description is in English 2013-11-21 Converted to schema conforming EAD by dtd2schema.vh.xsl. A Guide to the Nansemond County (Va.) Land Records, 1734-1962 A Collection in the Library of Virginia 1141957-1141981, 1149974, 1150970, 1150971 Bari Helms

Library of Virginia 2012 Library of Virginia staff Library of Virginia Descriptive Summary The Library of Virginia Nansemond County (Va.) Land Records, 1734-1962 1141957-1141981, 1149974, 1150970, 1150971 State Records Center - Archives Annex, Library of Virginia 28 boxes and/or volumes English Suffolk (Va.) Circuit Court Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

Nansemond County (Va.) Land Records, 1734-1962, Local government records collection, Suffolk (City) Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.

Acquisition Information

These items came to the Library of Virginia in a shipment of court papers from Suffolk (City).

Historical Information

Nansemond County was created as Upper Norfolk County by 1640 and in 1642 was renamed Nansemond County for the Nansemond Indians, who lived in the area in the early seventeenth century. The county seat was Suffolk. The county became the independent city of Nansemond on 1 July 1972, and on 1 January 1974 Nansemond merged with the city of Suffolk. The entire area is now known as Suffolk.

Nansemond County court records were destroyed in three separate fires: the earliest consumed the house of the court clerk in April 1734 (where the records were kept at that time), the second was set by British troops in 1779, and the last occurred on 7 February 1866.

Scope and Content

Nansemond County (Va.) Land Records, 1734-1962, consist of Deeds, Oversized Deeds, and Plat Books.

Adjunct Descriptive Data Related Material

Additional Nansemond County Records can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. Consult "A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm."

Nansemond County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Nansemond County Records may be found in the Virginia Lost Records Localities Collection at the Library of Virginia. Search the Lost Records Localities Digital Collection available at Virginia Memory.

For more information and a listing of lost records localities see Lost Records research note.

Index Terms Corporate Names: Suffolk (Va.) Circuit Court. Subjects: Public records--Virginia--Nansemond County. Genre and Form Terms: Local government records--Virginia--Nansemond County.