A Guide to the Sussex County (Va.) Records, 1754-1940
A Collection in
the Library of Virginia
Barcode numbers: 1050540, 1050544, 1050545, 1050576, 1050592, 1050594, 1147429
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
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Use Restrictions
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Preferred Citation
Sussex County (Va.) Records, 1754-1940, Local government records collection, Sussex County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.
Acquisition Information
These items came to the Library of Virginia in a shipment of court papers from Sussex County.
Historical Information
Sussex County was named for the English county, and was formed from Surry County by a statute adopted in 1753. The county court first met on 30 May 1754. The county seat is Sussex.
Scope and Content
Sussex County (Va.) Records, 1754-1940, includes miscellaneous records from the following series: Fiduciary Records, Road and Bridge Records, Court Records, Marriage Records and Vital Statistics, County Administrative Records, Public Buildings and Grounds Records, Land Records, Tax and Fiscal Records, and Wills.
Related Material
Additional Sussex County Court Records can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. Consult "A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm."
Index Terms
- Sussex County (Va.) Circuit Court.
- Public records -- Virginia -- Sussex County.
- Sussex County (Va.) -- History.
- Local government records -- Virginia -- Sussex County.
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Contents List
Register of Guardians, Index, Issue Dockets, Memorial of Judgments, and Memorandum Books
Processioners books, petitions, reference dockets
rule docket, wills, surveyors ticket
Clerk's correspondence, marriage license
Court Records: Executions, Suits in Chancery, 1791 (damaged volume - front cover and first two pages of volume only), Clerks' Records: Clerks' Correspondence; Tax and Fiscal Records: Liquor Licenses Returned, Dog Tax Assessments (1873), Commonwealth claims; Board of Supervisors Records; Road and Bridge Records; Public Buildings and Records: Jail papers
license tax returns, receipts, accounts
Dockets, Index to deed grantees, state Capitation lists, receipts for dog license, personal property interrogatories, miscellaneous land records
Unrecorded Deeds, 1771-1849; Court Records: Chancery Causes: Parr v. Parr, 1846; Holloway v. Holloway's Guardian, 1849; Judgment, Cunningham & Co. v. Wall; Deeds (3), 1824; Will of Matthew Parham, 1776.