Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Mathews County (Va.) Records, 1803-1945. Local government records collection, Mathews County 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 Mathews County.

Historical Information

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.

Scope and Content

Mathews County (Va.) Records, 1803-1945, consist of Board of Supervisors records, bonds/commissions/oaths, business records, clerk's records, jury records, circuit court records, county court records, election records, fiduciary records, health and medical records, land records, marriage records and vital statistics, military and pension records, organization records, overseers of the poor records, public buildings and grounds records, school records, township records, and wills. Please consult Archives Research Services for details.

Arrangement

Arranged by records series.

Related Material

Additional records for Mathews County can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. Consult "A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm."

Mathews County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Mathews County 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:

• Mathews County (Va.) Circuit Court.

Subjects:

• Public records -- Virginia -- Mathews County.

Geographical Names:

• Mathews County (Va.) -- History.

Genre and Form Terms:

• Boards (organizations) -- Virginia -- Mathews County.
• Bonds (legal records) -- Virginia -- Mathews County.
• Business records -- Virginia -- Mathews County.
• Civil court records -- Virginia -- Mathews County.
• Estate inventories -- Virginia -- Mathews County.
• Health and medical records -- Virginia -- Mathews County.
• Indexes (reference sources) -- Virginia -- Mathews County.
• Judicial records -- Virginia -- Mathews County.
• Land records -- Virginia -- Mathews County.
• Local government records -- Virginia -- Mathews County.
• Marriage records -- Virginia -- Mathews County.
• Military records -- Virginia -- Mathews County.
• Pensions (compensation) -- Virginia -- Mathews County.
• Plats (maps) -- Virginia -- Mathews County.
• School records -- Virginia -- Mathews County.
• Township records -- Virginia -- Mathews County.
• Voters' lists -- Virginia -- Mathews County.
• Wills -- Virginia -- Mathews County.

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