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Preferred Citation

Fairfax County (Va.) Deed from Robert Carter and Frances, his wife, to John Semple, 1762 Nov. 2, 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

Fairfax County was named for Thomas Fairfax, sixth baron Fairfax of Cameron, proprietor of the Northern Neck. It was formed from Prince William County in 1742.

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.) Deed from Robert Carter and Frances, his wife, to John Semple, 1762 Nov. 2. The deed documents the transfer of 3,500 acres of land and appurtenances from Robert Carter and Frances Carter to John Semple, a merchant, of Charles City County, Maryland.

Related Material

Additional Fairfax County Land 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 .

See The Chancery Records Index to find the chancery records of additional Virginia localities.

Index Terms

Persons:

• Carter, Robert, 1728-1804

Corporate Names:

• Fairfax County (Va.) Circuit Court.

Subjects:

• Merchants--Maryland--Charles County.
• Public records-- Virginia--Fairfax County.

Geographical Names:

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

Genre and Form Terms:

• Deeds-- Virginia--Fairfax County.
• Land records-- Virginia--Fairfax County.
• Local government records--Virginia--Fairfax County.

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