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

Gloucester County (Va.) Circuit Court. Records, 1782-1835, 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

Gloucester County was formed in 1651 from York County.

All records were destroyed by an 1820 fire, and most of the records created after 1820 were destroyed by fire in Richmond on 3 April 1865, where they had been moved for safekeeping during the Civil War.

Scope and Content

Records, 1782-1835, of Gloucester County consist of fiduciary records (1782-1835), a marriage record (1790), a will (1817), and claims against the Commonwealth (1820.)

Fiduciary records, 1782-1835, consist of an account of sales of property belonging to the estate of Robert West (1817), court orders certifying John Tabb as the administrator of John Ransone (1835) and Samuel P. Byrd as legal guardian of his children and the children of William L. Fauntlery (undated), and an administrator's bond granted to Sarah Thruston (1782.)

Marriage record, 1790, consists of a copy of a marriage contract between Francis Duvall and Mary Booth.

Copy of Samuel Munford's will, 1817.

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

• Gloucester County (Va.) Circuit Court.

Subject Terms

• Estate settlement costs--Virginia--Gloucester County.
• Guardian and ward--Virginia--Gloucester County.
• Marriage--Virginia--Gloucester County.
• Public records--Virginia--Gloucester County.

Geographic Terms

• Gloucester County (Va.)--History.

Record Type

• Claims--Virginia--Gloucester County.
• Marriage records--Virginia--Gloucester County.
• Performance bonds--Virginia--Gloucester County.
• Wills--Virginia--Gloucester 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.