Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

Should you wish to quote from or reproduce images of any of the materials, you must write to the Librarian of the Huntington Library, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108, requesting formal permission to do so. Please note that you do not have to obtain permission if you are quoting fewer than fifty words, or if you are only citing the document. Images made with microfilm-reader printers are for research use only and may not be used for publication without permission.

Preferred Citation

Caroline County (Va.) Circuit Court. Records, 1741-1871, Robert Alonzo Brock Collection, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Acquisition Information

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.

Historical Information

Caroline County was formed in 1728 from Essex, King and Queen, and King William Counties. Additional parts of King and Queen County were added in 1742 and 1762.

Most loose records and deed books prior to 1836 and will books prior to 1853 were stolen, mutilated, and/or destroyed by Union troops who ransacked the courthouse in May 1864. A near-complete run of order books exists.

Scope and Content

Records, 1741-1871, of Caroline County consist of papers related to judgments (1741, 1803, 1871), a guardian's account (1801), an estate account (1805), a county claim (1850), and a copy of John Baylor's will (1808) that was used as an exhibit in the court case Pinkerton and others versus Baylor and others.

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 .

Access Terms

Corporate Name

• Caroline County (Va.) Circuit Court.

Subject Terms

• Estate settlement costs--Virginia--Caroline County.
• Guardian and ward--Virginia--Caroline County.
• Judgments--Virginia--Caroline County.
• Public records--Virginia--Caroline County.

Geographic Terms

• Caroline County (Va.)--History.

Record Type

• Claims--Virginia--Caroline County.
• Judicial records--Virginia--Caroline County.
• Wills--Virginia--Caroline County.

Added Entry - Personal Name

• Brock, R. A. (Robert Alonzo), 1839-1914, collector.

Adjunct Descriptive Data

Originals are located at the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California.