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This collection forms part of the Robert Alonzo Brock Collection at The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Collection is open to research.
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Elizabeth City County (Va.) Circuit Court Receipt, 1737, Robert Alonzo Brock Collection, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
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.
Elizabeth City County was an original shire formed in 1634. It is now extinct having been incorporated into the City of Hampton in 1952.
Records were burned or destroyed during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. Additional records were burned in Richmond on 3 April 1865, where they had been moved for safekeeping during the Civil War. A few pre-Civil War volumes such as deed books, will books, and order books exist.
Receipt, 1737, for payment of quit rents by William Beverley.
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 .
Originals are located at the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California.