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A Guide to the Westmoreland County (Va.) Records, 1693-1959 Westmoreland County (Va.) Records 0007326996, 1042833-1176643 circa

A Guide to the Westmoreland County (Va.) Records, 1693-1959

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the Library of Virginia
Collection Number 0007326996, 1042833-1176643 circa


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Repository
Library of Virginia
Collection Number
0007326996, 1042833-1176643 circa
Title
Westmoreland County (Va.) Records, 1693-1959
Extent
53 boxes and volumes
Collector
Westmoreland County (Va.) Circuit Court
Location
Library of Virginia
Language
English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Westmoreland County (Va.) Records, 1693-1959. Local government records collection, Westmoreland County (Va.) Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.

Acquisition Information

A portion of these records came to the Library of Virginia in shipments of court papers from Westmoreland County under the accession numbers 33162f, 33503, 34602, 41894 and 41897.

Historical Information

Westmoreland County was named for the English county. It was formed from Northumberland County in 1653. The county seat is Montross.

Scope and Content

Westmoreland County (Va.) Records, 1693-1959, includes miscellaneous records from the following series: Board of Supervisors Records; Bonds,Commissions,Oaths; Court Records; Election Records; Fiduciary Records; Land Records; Miscellaneous Records; Military and Pension Records; Public Buildings and Grounds; Road and Bridge Records; School Records; Tax and Fiscal Records; Wills.

Related Material

Additional Westmoreland County 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.

Index Terms

    Corporate Names:

  • Westmoreland County (Va.) Circuit Court.

    • Subjects:

  • Public records--Virginia--Westmoreland County.

    • Genre and Form Terms:

  • Local government records--Virginia--Westmoreland County.

Adjunct Descriptive Data

Contents List

Barcode number 0007326996: Records, 1693-1832:

Court Records, Fiduciary Records, Tax and Fiscal Records, and Wills.

Barcode number 1042833: Court Records; Tax and Fiscal Records; Fiduciary Records, 1795-1804:

Court Records: Executions; Tax and Fiscal Records: List of Insolvents; Levy Papers; Fiduciary Records; Inventories and Accounts; Administrator's Accounts

Barcode number 1042947: Land Records; Miscellaneous Records; Fiduciary Records, 1772-1920:

Deeds, affidavits, mechanics' liens, guardian bonds, powers of attorney

Barcode number 1042948: Miscellaneous Records; Land Records; Court Records; Road and Bridge Records; Fiduciary Records; Tax and Fiscal Records, 1779-1959:

Crow and fox scalp certificates, abstracts of title Colonial Beach School; Judgments, Commonwealth Causes; Road Petitions; Guardian, Administrator and Executor Bonds; Sales of delinquent lands

Barcode numbers 1042967-1042968: Commissioner of Accounts Papers; Executor's and Administrator's Acounts, 1836-1843
Barcode numbers 1101726-1101766 circa: Index to Deeds and Wills, undated
Barcode number 1101782: Conditional Sales; Record of Capitation Tax Received by Clerk, 1881-1914
Barcode number 1101788: Liber (Deeds and Wills), 1747-1753
Barcode number 1101800: Deeds and Orders, 1795-1797
Barcode number 1120099: Bonds; Liquor Licenses, 1904-1914

Bonds,Oaths,Commissions: Bonds (Administrators, Guardians, Executors, Officials, Chancery Commissioners); Tax and Fiscal Records: Liquor Licenses

Barcode number 1164129: School Records; Court Records; Election Records, 1846-1861:

School Records: School Commissioners Reports, 1846-1861; Court Records: Summons to answer suggestions filed, 1856-1858; Election Records, 1850s. Accession 41894. Unprocessed.

Barcode number 1164131: Bonds,Commissions,Oaths; Tax and Fiscal Records; Land Records, 1820-1908 circa:

Bonds,Commissions,Oaths: appointments and qualifications of county officers before military officer; oaths of allegeiance, 1869-1870; Tax and Fiscal Records: pedlars receipts, 1820s-1850s; Land Records: Oyster Inspector Reports, 1907-1908; deed of trust appointments, substitutions, resignations in re: Colonial Beach Improvement Company, 1887. Accession 41894. Unprocessed

Barcode number 1164137: Records, 1861-1909:

Board of Supervisors Records; Election Records; Birth Records; Road and Bridge Records; Accession 41897.

Barcode number 1176631: Bonds, Commissions, Oaths; Court Records; Fiduciary Records, 1790-1924:

Bonds,Oaths,Commissions: officials' bonds, appointments and resignations (constable, sheriff, tobacco inspector, overseer of poor, tavern, surveyor, clerks, superintendent of schools, treasurer, coroner, justice of peace, etc.), militia appointments and resignations, apprentice indentures/bonds, etc., 1897-1924; Court Records: Injunction Bonds, 1802-1824; Fiduciary Records: Adminstrators and Executors Bonds, 1790s-early 1800s; 1872-1874. Unprocessed.

Barcode number 1176632: Military and Pension Records Records; Public Buildings and Grounds, 1806-1913:

Military and Pension Records: pension papers (Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War), 1806-1913, Lists of indigent families of soldiers, 1861-1865, militia fines and exemptions, 1861-1864, letter in re: military bounty land, 1816, public service claim, 1821, petition to make Civil War muster rolls official records, 1907) Public Buildings and Grounds: Architectural Drawings and Plans: clerk's office, 1822-1900, courthouse, 1824-1848, jail, 1811-1832, jail inspectors reports, 1810-1912, undated, portrait of Lord Chatham, 1821-1847, painting of George Washington, 1902, stone for Washington Monument in D.C., 1852, shade trees planted in public square, 1905, petition for a bell, undated.

Barcode number 1176643: Records, 1783-1912 circa:

Justice of the Peace Records, 1868; Election Records, 1797-1912 circa; Court Records: dockets, orders setting court dates, writs of ad quod damnum, 1783-1856; Board of Supervisors Records, 1873-1910, undated; Sheriff's Records, 1789-1822; School Records, 1873-1877, undated. Unprocessed.

Barcode number 1043053: Records, 1762-1850:

Military and Pension Records: Military Discharge of Charles Poore, 1762; Fiduciary Records: Inventory of James Degges, 1778, Inventory of James Washington, 1782, Guardian settlement of Elijah Moore, 1787; Road and Bridge Rcords: Report of road petition, 1780; Tax and Fiscal Records: Slave Patrol Accounts, 1780; Land Records: Survey and division of the estate of Willoughby Newton, 1823, 1846; Court Records: Exhibits and bonds, 1784-1850. Accession numbers 33162f, 33503, 34602

Barcode numbers 1176622-1176627: Fiduciary Records and Wills, 1700-1912 circa

Box 1 includes Will of Richard Lee (1795); lists of slaves emancipated by Robert Carter (1790s)

Barcode number 1176634: Coroner's appointment; slave patrol commissions and accounts, 1776-1857

Bonds,Oaths,Commissions: Coroner's Appointment, 1851; Slave patrol commissions, 1812-1857; Tax and Fiscal Records: Slave patrol accounts submitted for payment, 1776-1850