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A Guide to the New Kent County (Va.) Township Records, 1870-1875 New Kent County (Va.) Township Records, 1870-1875 Barcode numbers 1045029, 1165223/ New Kent County (Va.) Reel 21

A Guide to the New Kent County (Va.) Township Records, 1870-1875

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the Library of Virginia
Collection numbers: Barcode numbers 1045029, 1165223/ previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit previous hit County  next hit (Va.) Reel 21


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Repository
The Library of Virginia
Collection numbers:
Barcode numbers 1045029, 1165223/ previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit previous hit County  next hit (Va.) Reel 21
Title
previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit previous hit County  next hit (Va.) Township Records, 1870-1875
Physical Characteristics
1 v. and 2 p.
Collector
previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit previous hit County  next hit (Va.) Circuit Court.
Location
State Records Center - Archives Annex, Library of Virginia
Language
English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Use Restrictions

For Cumberland Township Board Minutes, use microfilm, previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit previous hit County  next hit (Va.) Reel 21.

Preferred Citation

previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit previous hit County  next hit (Va.) Township Records, 1870-1875. Local government records collection, previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit previous hit County  next hit Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219.

Acquisition Information

These items came to the Library of Virginia in transfers of court papers from previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit previous hit County  next hit. Cumberland Township Board Minutes came to the Library of Virginia in a transfer of court papers from previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit previous hit County  next hit under the accession number 42127.

Historical Information

The 1870 Virginia Constitution required that each previous hit county  next hit in the state be divided into no less than three townships (see Article VII, section 2). Based on the previous hit New  next hit England administrative organization of a previous hit county  next hit, each township would elect the administration officials for the offices of supervisor, clerk, assessor, collector, commissioner of the roads, overseer of the poor, justice of the peace, and constable. The supervisors of each township would comprise the board of supervisors for the previous hit county  next hit, and would be responsible for auditing the previous hit county  next hit accounts, examining the assessors' books, regulating property valuation, and fixing the previous hit county  next hit levies. The Acts of Assembly provided that each township be divided into school and electoral districts (see Acts of Assembly 1869-1870, Chapter 39). A constitutional amendment in 1874 changed the townships into magisterial districts and each district elected one supervisor, three justices of the peace, one constable, and one overseer of the poor. The supervisors of the districts made up the previous hit county  next hit board of supervisors whose duties were identical as those set out in 1870. The published Acts of Assembly appended a list of township names by previous hit county  next hit following the acts for every year that townships existed in Virginia.

previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit previous hit County  next hit may have been named either for the English previous hit county  next hit of previous hit Kent  next hit or for previous hit Kent  next hit Island, in the upper waters of the Chesapeake Bay. William Claiborne, a native of previous hit Kent  next hit who had been driven from previous hit Kent  next hit Island by Lord Baltimore, was a prominent resident of the previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit area about 1654 when the previous hit county  next hit was formed from York previous hit County  next hit. Part of James City previous hit County  next hit was added in 1767. The previous hit county  next hit seat is previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit.

Records were destroyed when John Posey set fire to the courthouse on 15 July 1787. Many records were lost when the courthouse was partially destroyed by fire during Civil War hostilities in 1862. Additional records were burned in Richmond on 3 April 1865, where they had been moved for safekeeping during the Civil War.

Scope and Content

previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit previous hit County  next hit (Va.) Township Records, 1870-1875, consist of one volume and 2 pages of loose minutes relating to the administrative functions of the township boards of the previous hit county  next hit.

Statement of costs for dividing the previous hit county  next hit of previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit into townships, 1870, gives the names of the commissioners involved in the division and how much each of them were owed by the previous hit county  next hit for their services.

Cumberland Township Board Minutes, 1872-1875, is a volume consisting of minutes and accounts. Information recorded includes orders of stationery and books for use of township officials, establishment of tax and levy rates, division of the township into road districts, appointment of road overseers, establishment of rates allowed for road work, accounts allowed against the township board including name of person paid and what service was performed, appointment of election judges, reports by the township collector, reports from township clerk, reports from road overseers, and orders for election of road overseers.

Following the board minutes in the same volume is an alphabetical listing of chancery suits, 1882-1892. The list begins on p. 17 and is in alphabetical order by plaintiff.

Related Material

Additional previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit previous hit County  next hit Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia. Consult "A Guide to Virginia previous hit County  next hit and City Records on Microfilm."

previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit previous hit County  next hit is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit previous hit County  next hit 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 .

Index Terms

    Corporate Names:

  • previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit previous hit County  next hit (Va.). Circuit Court.

    • Subjects:

  • previous hit County  next hit government -- Records and correspondence -- Virginia -- previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit previous hit County  next hit.
  • Local finance -- Virginia -- previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit previous hit County  next hit.
  • Local government -- Virginia -- previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit previous hit County  next hit.
  • Public records -- Virginia -- previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit previous hit County  next hit.

    • Geographical Names:

  • previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit previous hit County  next hit (Va.) -- History -- 19th century.

    • Genre and Form Terms:

  • Accounts -- Virginia -- previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit previous hit County  next hit.
  • Chancery causes -- Virginia -- previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit previous hit County  next hit.
  • Judicial records -- Virginia -- previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit previous hit County  next hit.
  • Local government records -- Virginia -- previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit previous hit County  next hit.
  • Minute books -- Virginia -- previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit previous hit County  next hit.
  • Township records -- Virginia -- previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit previous hit County  next hit.

    • Added Entry - Corporate Name:

  • Township of Cumberland ( previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit previous hit County  next hit, VA)

Adjunct Descriptive Data

Significant Places Associated With the Collection

  • New Kent County (Va.) -- History -- 19th century.
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Contents List

Barcode number 1045029: Statement of costs for dividing the previous hit county  next hit of previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit into townships, 1870
Barcode number 1165223: Cumberland Township Board Minutes, 1872-1875.

Use microfilm, previous hit New  next hit previous hit Kent  next hit previous hit County (Va.) Reel 21.