Library of Virginia
The Library of Virginia© 2011 By The Library of Virginia. All Rights Reserved.
Processed by: Library of Virginia staff
There are no restrictions.
There are no restrictions.
Mathews County (Va.) Judgments, 1861-1902. Local government records collection, Mathews County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
These items came to the Library of Virginia in shipments of court papers from Mathews County.
Mathews County was named for Thomas Mathews, of Norfolk, the Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1790 when the county was formed from Gloucester County.
Most records were burned in Richmond on 3 April 1865, where they had been moved for safekeeping during the Civil War.
Mathews County (Va.) Judgments, 1861-1902, contain civil cases in which justice was administered on the strictly formulated rules of common law. The majority of cases in this record series relate to matters of debt.
Chronological (Cases filed within each box by month and year they were resolved.)
Additional Mathews County Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia web site. Consult "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 .