Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Use Restrictions

Serve photostat copies instead of originals.

Preferred Citation

Charles City County (Va.) Bonds, 1764-1769. Local government records collection, Charles City County Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219.

Acquisition Information

The original bonds were removed from the courthouse during the Civil War and were deposited in historical societies in Massachusetts and Vermont. The first six bonds were given to the State Library by the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1905 under the accession numbers 19926-19931; the rest were bound together with some acts of the General Assembly by the Vermont Historical Society and were returned to Charles City County in 1975. The two lots have been combined in the photostats. The photostat volume came to the Library of Virginia under the accession number 28725.

Historical Information

Charles City County was named for Charles I of England and was one of the eight shires established in 1634.

Records have been destroyed at various times. The most damage occurred during the Civil War when the records were strewn through the woods in a rainstorm. A few pre-Civil War volumes such as deed books, will books, minute books, and order books exist.

Scope and Content

Charles City County (Va.) Bonds, 1762-1769, are photostatic copies of a variety of different kinds of bonds including ordinary bonds, executor bonds, guardian bonds, and officials bonds.

Related Material

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 .

Index Terms

Corporate Names:

• Charles City County (Va.) Circuit Court.

Subjects:

• Public records -- Virginia -- Charles City County.

Geographical Names:

• Charles City County (Va.) -- History -- 18th century.

Genre and Form Terms:

• Bonds -- Virginia -- Charles City County.

Adjunct Descriptive Data