Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Fairfax County (Va.) Certificate of Non-importation of Slaves, 1790. Local government records collection, Fairfax County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.

Acquisition Information

This item came to the Library of Virginia under the accession number 41714.

Historical Information

Fairfax County was formed in 1742 from Prince William County.

Original wills and deeds as well as many other loose papers were destroyed during the Civil War; deed books for twenty-six of the fifty-six years between 1763 and 1819 are missing. Numerous pre-Civil War minute books are missing as well.

Scope and Content

Fairfax County (Va.) Certificate of Non-importation of Slaves, 1790. Consists of a certificate documenting Benjamin Offut's oath affirming that he did not import, after 1778, from Africa or the West Indies the five slaves he brought with him when he moved to Virginia.

Related Material

Additional Fairfax County Free Negro and Slave Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia. See A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm

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 .

Index Terms

Corporate Names:

• Fairfax County (Va.)--Circuit Court.

Subjects:

• Slavery--Virginia--Fairfax County.

Geographical Names:

• Fairfax County (Va.)--History--18th century.

Genre and Form Terms:

• Certificates--Virginia--Fairfax County.
• Free Negro and Slave records--Virginia--Fairfax County.
• Local government records--Virginia--Fairfax County.

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