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

Elizabeth City County (Va.) Circuit Court Receipt, 1737, 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

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.

Scope and Content

Receipt, 1737, for payment of quit rents by William Beverley.

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

• Hampton (Va.) Circuit Court.

Subject Terms

• Public records--Virginia--Elizabeth City County.
• Rent--Taxation--Virginia--Elizabeth City County.

Geographic Terms

• Elizabeth City County (Va.)--History--18th century.
• Hampton (Va.)--History.

Record Type

• Receipts--Virginia--Elizabeth City County.

Added Entry - Personal Name

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

Added Entry - Corporate Name:

• Elizabeth City County (Va.) Circuit Court.

Adjunct Descriptive Data

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