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Northumberland County (Va.) Petition of Smithland Baptist Church, 1912. Local government records collection, Northumberland County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.
This item came to the Library of Virginia in a transfer of court papers from Northumberland County under the accession number 43283.
Northumberland County probably was named for the English county. It was formed about 1645 from the district of Chickacoan, the early-seventeenth-century name for the region between the Potomac and the Rappahannock rivers.
Northumberland County (Va.) Petition of Smithland Baptist Church, 1912 consists of a document from the congregation requesting the Circuit Court judge to appoint Thomas W. Clarke, J. C. Dawson, and J. H. Clarke as trustees of the church.
Additional Northumberland County Organization Records can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. Consult "A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm."