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Mathews County (Va.) Tax and Fiscal Records, 1854-1903. Local government records collection, Mathews County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.
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.) Tax and Fiscal Records, 1854-1903 consist of Commonwealth claims, 1866-1903; County bonds, 1894; County claims, 1859-1894; Delinquent land lists, 1871-1887; Delinquent tax lists, 1876; Licenses, 1866-1900; Liquor bonds, 1877-1881; Oyster law taxes, 1892, 1897; Requests for reassessments, 1888-1899; Sheriff's accounts, 1854-1869, 1902; Tax exemptions, 1890, 1897; and Treasurer's records, 1874, 1886-1895.
Arranged alphabetically by subject and then chronologically.
Additional Mathews County Tax and Fiscal Records can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. 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 .