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        <titleproper>A Guide to the Powhatan County (Va.) Records, <date era="ce" calendar="gregorian">circa 1780-1923</date></titleproper>
        <subtitle id="sort">Powhatan County (Va.) Records, circa 1780-1923
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      <titleproper>A Guide to the Powhatan County (Va.) Records, <date era="ce" calendar="gregorian">circa 1780-1923</date></titleproper>
      <subtitle>A Collection in <lb/>the Library of Virginia
<num type="Barcode numbers:">1049877-1188885
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      <author>Callie Lou Freed
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      <head>Descriptive Summary
</head>
      <repository label="Repository" encodinganalog="852$a">The Library of Virginia
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      <unittitle label="Title" encodinganalog="245$a">Powhatan County (Va.) Records,
<unitdate type="inclusive" label="Date" encodinganalog="245$f" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">circa 1780-1923
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      <unitid label="Barcode numbers" encodinganalog="099$a">1049877-1188885
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      <physloc label="Location">Library of Virginia
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      <physdesc label="Physical Characteristics" encodinganalog="300$a">13 boxes--11 found at State Records Center--Archives Annex, Library of Virginia and 2 (1119390-1119391)found at Library of Virginia.
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        <language langcode="eng">English
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      <origination label="Collector" encodinganalog="110$a">Powhatan County (Va.) Circuit Court.
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        <p>There are no restrictions.
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        <head>Preferred Citation
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        <p>Powhatan County (Va.) Records, circa 1780-1923. Local government records collection, Powhatan County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219.
</p>
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        <head>Acquisition Information
</head>
  <p>These boxes came to the Library of Virginia in a transfer of records from Powhatan County.
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      <head>Historical Information
</head>
      <p>Powhatan County was named for the paramount chief of the Powhatan Indians in the tidewater of Virginia in the late 16th and early years of the 17th century. The county was formed from Cumberland County in 1777, and part of Chesterfield County was added on 16 March 1850. 
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      <p>Powhatan County (Va.) Records, circa 1780-1923, consist of the following series: Miscellaneous Records, Fiduciary Records, Bonds/Commissions/Oaths, Court Records (subfield series include Judgments, Criminal Records, Jury Records, Clerks' Records, Personal Documentation and Court Finance), Tax and Fiscal Records, Election Records, County Administrative Records (subfield series include Overseers of the Poor Records, Board of Supervisors Records, School Board Records and Sheriff's Records), Marriage Records and Vital Statistics, Business Records, Land Records, Wills, Organization Records and School Records. 
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        <head>Related Material
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        <p>Additional Powhatan County Records can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia.  Consult <extref xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/local/">"A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm"</extref> found on the Library of Virginia's web site.
</p>
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        <head>Corporate Names:</head>
        <corpname encodinganalog="610$a">Powhatan County (Va.) Circuit Court.</corpname>
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        <head>Subjects:</head>
        <subject source="lcsh" encodinganalog="650$a">Public records--Virginia--Powhatan County.</subject>
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      <controlaccess>
        <head>Geographical Names:</head>
        <geogname source="lcsh" encodinganalog="651$a">Powhatan County (Va.)--History.</geogname>
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        <genreform source="aat" encodinganalog="655$a">Local government records--Virginia--Powhatan County.</genreform>
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        <did>
          <unittitle label="Barcode number 1049877">Records,  
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">circa 1805-1809
</unitdate></unittitle>
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<scopecontent>
          <p>Miscellaneous Records: Power of Attorney; Estray Papers; Fiduciary Records: Executors' Accounts; Inventories; Appraisements; Estate Accounts; Administrators' Bonds; Bonds/Commissions/Oaths: Varous Bonds. Court Records: Judgments: Delivery Bonds; Requests for Judgment. Tax and Fiscal Records: List of Insovlents; County Levy Papers; Court Records: Commonwealth Causes. UNPROCESSED.
</p>
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      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle label="Barcode number 1049879">Records, 
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1809-1829
</unitdate></unittitle>
        </did>
<scopecontent>
          <p>Fiduciary Records: Guardians' Accounts; Inventories and Appraisements; Administrators' Bonds; Accounts of Sales; Assignments of Dower; Division of Negroes; Tax and Fiscal Records: Lists of Insolvents; County Levy Papers; Lists of Taxable Property; Bonds/Commissions/Oaths: Various Bonds. Court Records: Papers Related to Judgments; Election Records: Poll of Election of Overseers of Poor; County Administrative Records: Overseers of the Poor Records: Accounts; Miscellaneous Records: Power of Attorney; Marriage Records and Vital Statistics: Marriage Agreements. UNPROCESSED.
</p>
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        <did>
          <unittitle label="Barcode number 1049880">Records, 
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1828-1866
</unitdate></unittitle>
        </did>
<scopecontent>
          <p>Bonds/Commissions/Oaths: Various Bonds; Election Records: Petitions Concerning Precincts; Fiducuiary Records: Appraisements; Administrators' Reports; Estate Accounts. Court Records: Judgments; Lists of Subpeonas. County Administrative Records: Overseers of the Poor Records: Accounts. UNPROCESSED.
</p>
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        <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle label="Barcode number 1049954">Records, 
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1869-1923
</unitdate></unittitle>
        </did>
<scopecontent>
          <p>Election Records: Notices of Candidacy and Reports; Marriage Records and Vital Statistics: Certificates of Births and Deaths.
</p>
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 <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle label="Barcode number 1049982">Records, 
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1859-1923
</unitdate></unittitle>
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          <p>Bonds/Commissions/Oaths, 1895-1896, 1911-1923; County Administrative Records: Board of Supervisors Records: Minutes, 1911-1913; Business Records: Correspondence and Accounts Re: David E. Harris, 1876-1910 and Account of William S. Warrock to Isaac Mercer, 1859.
</p>
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<c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle label="Barcode number 1119390">Records,  
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1792-1835
</unitdate></unittitle>
        </did>
<scopecontent>
          <p>Land Records: Lodged Deeds and Agreements, Memo of Deeds, Order of Deed, Receipts for Deeds; County Administrative Records: Overseers of the Poor Records; Miscellaneous Records: Powers of Attorney.
</p>
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      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle label="Barcode number 1119391">Records, 
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1836-1852
</unitdate></unittitle>
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<scopecontent>
          <p>Land Records: Unrecorded Deeds, Memo about Deeds; Fiduciary Records: Guardians' Accounts, Lodged Guardian Account, Bonds; Miscellaneous Records: Powers of Attorney; Wills: Lodged Wills and inventories.
</p>
        </scopecontent>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle label="Barcode number 1178743">Records, 
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">circa 1780-1850
</unitdate></unittitle>
        </did>
<scopecontent>
          <p>Bonds/Commissions/Oaths; Fiduciary Records; Organization Records; County Administrative Records: Overseers of the Poor Records; Tax and Fiscal Records; Marriage Records and Vital Statistics. Partially Processed.
</p>
        </scopecontent>
        </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle label="Barcode number 1186825">Records, 
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">circa 1895-1900
</unitdate></unittitle>
        </did>
<scopecontent>
          <p>Court Records: Various Series; Tax and Fiscal Records: Commonwealth Claims; Bonds/Commissions/Oaths; Court Records: Jury Records. Unprocessed.
</p>
        </scopecontent>
      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle label="Barcode number 1186829">Records, 
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">circa 1830-1913
</unitdate></unittitle>
        </did>
<scopecontent>
          <p>Tax and Fiscal Records (Commonwealth Claims), Organizational Records (Appointment of Trustees; Includes de Sale Charter); Clerk's Records (Reports; List of Merchants in Powhatan County, 1854-1855); School Records (Commissioners Reports, 1830-1835) County Administrative Records: School Board Records: Huguenot District School Board Order to Purchase Land for Corinth School, 1913); Miscellaneous Records (Powers of Attorney); Bonds/Commissions/Oaths (1830-1835). Unprocessed.
</p>
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      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle label="Barcode number 1186859">Records, 
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">1895-1911 [CONTAINS ADOPTION RECORDS--DO NOT SERVE]
</unitdate></unittitle>
        </did>
<scopecontent>
          <p>Court Records: Jury Records (Venire Facias, 1903-1907); Bonds, Commissions, Oaths; Tax and Fiscal Records (Petitions and Applications for Liquor Licenses; Delinquent Land Records); Fiduciary Records; Organizational Records (Petitions to Appoint Church Trustees, 1895); Sheriff's Records (Report of Prisoners in Jail, 1904-1911); Court Records: Personal Documentation-DO NOT SERVE (Adoption Records, 1898-1905; Certificate of Citizenship, 1907; Declarations of Intention to Become a Citizen, 1910); Clerks' Records (Memos, Costs; Lists of Writings Committed to Record.)
</p>
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   <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle label="Barcode number 1188799">Records, 
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">circa 1787-1900
</unitdate></unittitle>
        </did>
<scopecontent>
          <p>Election Records (1881), Bonds/Commissions/Oaths; Fiduciary Records (Accounts, Inventories, and Appraisements, 1787, Divisions, Assignments of Dower; Includes a Plat of Samuel Woodfin's Land, 1832 and Report of Laying off of Abraham Depp's land, 1832); Tax and Fiscal Records (Levy Claims, Ordinary License Bonds, 1794), Commonwealth Claims; Receipts (includes receipt for Otis Toomer's and George White's Pedlar's License Tax, 1816) ; County Administrative Records: Overseers of Poor Records: Report, 1816; Coury Records: Jury Records: Return, 1844; Clerk's Records (Order to Index Deeds and Wills, 1872.)
</p>
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      </c01>
      <c01 level="item">
        <did>
          <unittitle label="Barcode number 1188885">Records, 
<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">circa 1782-1900
</unitdate></unittitle>
        </did>
        <scopecontent>
          <p>Tax and Fiscal Records: Commonwealth Claims; Bonds/Commissions/Oaths (1782); Court Records: Court Finance: Fee Bills; Court Records: Jury Records, Returns; Miscellaneous Records: Powers of Attorney; Court Records, Wrappers.
</p>
       </scopecontent>
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