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Preferred Citation

Nansemond County (Va.) Claim, 1804, 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

Nansemond County was formed from New Norfolk County in 1637. Previously named Upper Norfolk County until it was renamed Nansemond County in 1646. It was named for the Nansemond Indians, who lived in the area in the early seventeenth century. The county became the independent city of Nansemond in 1972. Now extinct, Nansemond merged with the city of Suffolk in 1974. The entire area is known as Suffolk.

Nansemond County court records were destroyed in three separate fires: the earliest consumed the house of the court clerk in April 1734 (where the records were kept at that time), the second was set by British troops in 1779, and the last occurred on 7 February 1866.

Scope and Content

Nansemond County (Va.) Claim, 1804, of Sheriff Stephen Wright who was owed money by the Commonwealth.

Related Material

Nansemond County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Nansemond County Records may be found in the Virginia Lost Records Localities Collection at the Library of Virginia. Search 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 Terms

• Suffolk (Va.) Circuit Court.

Subject Terms

• Public records--Virginia--Nansemond County.

Geographic Terms

• Nansemond County (Va.)--History--19th century.
• Suffolk (Va.)--History.

Genre and Form Terms

• Claims--Virginia--Nansemond County.

Added Entry - Personal Name

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

Added Entry - Corporate Name:

• Nansemond County (Va.) County Court.

Adjunct Descriptive Data

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