PUBLIC "-//Library of Virginia//TEXT (US::Vi::vi05021::A Guide to the Charles City County (Va.) Record Book, 1692-1700)//EN" "vi05021.xml" A Guide to the Charles City County (Va.) Record Book, 1692-1700 Charles City County (Va.) Record Book, 1692-1700 0007662022 Greg Crawford Library of Virginia © 2017 By The Library of Virginia. All Rights Reserved. Machine-readable finding aid created in EAD by Greg Crawford, 20 January 2017 Description is in English A Guide to the Charles City County (Va.) Record Book, 1692-1700 A Collection in the Library of Virginia 0007662022

Library of Virginia 2017 Library of Virginia staff Library of Virginia Descriptive Summary The Library of Virginia Charles City County (Va.) Record Book, 1692-1700 0007662022 Library of Virginia 1 v. English Charles City County (Va.) Circuit Court Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Patrons are to use digital images of Charles City County Record Book, 1692-1700 found on the Making History: Transcribe site available electronically at the website of the Library of Virginia.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Charles City County (Va.) Record Book, 1692-1700. Local Government Records Collection, Charles City County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

This item came to the Library of Virginia under accession 51907.

Biographical Information

Charles City County was named for King Charles I and was one of the original shires, or counties, first enumerated in 1634. The county seat is Charles City. Part of James City County was added to Charles City in 1721.

Records have been destroyed at various times. The most damage occurred during the Civil War when the records were strewn through the woods in a rainstorm. A few pre-Civil War volumes such as deed books, will books, minute books, and order books exist.

Portions of the Charles City County Record Book, 1692-1700, were taken from the Charles City courthouse in 1862 during the Peninsula Campaign of the Civil War and eventually returned to Virginia.

The Jamestowne Society funded all conservation costs and creation of a presentation archival clamshell box for the originals, July 2016.

The Friends of the Virginia State Archives funded microfilming and digitization, January 2017.

Conservation, stabilization and box constructed by ECS Conservation, HF Group and by Library of Virginia's Conservator, 2016.

 Scope and Content

Charles City County (Va.) Record Book, 1692-1700, records deeds, wills, estate inventories and other matters brought before the county court.

Adjunct Descriptive Data Related Material

See 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.

Additional Charles City County Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia web site. Consult A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.

 Index Terms Corporate Names: Charles City County (Va.) Circuit Court Subjects: African American -- History Geographical Names: Charles City County -- Virginia Genre and Form Terms: Deeds -- Virginia -- Charles City County. Local government records -- Virginia -- Charles City County. Wills -- Virginia -- Charles City County.