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Preferred Citation

Middlesex County (Va.) Court Records, 1821-1848. Local government records collection, Local Government Records Replevin Collection. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.

Acquisition Information

These items came to the Library of Virginia in 2004 in a transfer.

Historical Information

Middlesex County probably was named for the English county. It was formed from Lancaster County about 1669.

These records were replevined by the Library of Virginia following the trial entitled Commonwealth of Virginia vs. Larry I. Vass heard in Henrico County Circuit Court in November 1972.

Scope and Content

Middlesex County (Va.) Court Records, 1821-1848. The collection contains 17 documents removed from Middlesex County court records: a copy of a Gloucester County deed between Francis Whiting and Stanley Hudnall, 1821; a letter from a chancery cause with the surname Berry, 1839; a copy of a court order to record a deed, 1839; a notice to take the deposition of Carter Braxton and others for a Superior Court of Law and Chancery case Administrator of John Bassett vs. Richard Jones and wife and others, 1839; a copy, 1842, of a deed of manumission from Benjamin Hurd freeing his wife Betsy, and her two children Joshua and Moses, 1842, and three judgments in debt against the estate of Hurd, 1843; nine letters to the law firm McGill and Woodward pertaining to debts owed to a Baltimore firm, Magruder and Dalrymple, 1842-1845; a subpoena from the chancery cause Gatewood's Administrator vs. Montague and others, 1845; a judgment, Sarah Kerr vs. Executor of John R. Carlton, 1847; and a judgment, Larkin Hundley vs. Administrator of Parry, 1848.

Related Material

For additional information concerning the replevin of these items see Larry I. Vass Case records, 1781-1973, found at the Library of Virginia.

Additional Middlesex County court records can be found on microfilm and in the Chancery Records Index at the Library of Virginia. Consult "A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm" and The Chancery Records Index .

Index Terms

Corporate Names:

• Middlesex County (Va.) Circuit Court.

Subjects:

• Debt--Virginia--Middlesex County.
• Equity--Virginia--Middlesex County.
• Replevin--Virginia.
• Slavery--Emancipation--Virginia--Middlesex County.

Geographical Names:

• Middlesex County (Va.)--History--19th century.

Genre and Form Terms:

• Affidavits--Virginia--Middlesex County.
• Chancery causes--Virginia--Middlesex County.
• Deeds of manumission--Virginia--Middlesex County.
• Deeds--Virginia--Middlesex County.
• Free negro and slave records--Virginia--Middlesex County.
• Judicial records--Virginia--Middlesex County.
• Land records--Virginia--Middlesex County.
• Letters (correspondence)--Virginia--Middlesex County.
• Local government records--Virginia--Middlesex County.

Added Entry - Corporate Name:

• Middlesex County (Va.) Superior Court of Chancery.

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