A Collection in the Library of Virginia
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Library of Virginia
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Northumberland County (Va.) Records, 1700-1879. Local government records collection, Northumberland 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 Northumberland County.
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.) Records, 1700-1879, consist of the following series: Business Records, Court Records, Fiduciary
Records, Land Records, Tax and Fiscal Records, and Wills