Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

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Use Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

Mathews County (Va.) Land Records, 1817-1921, Local government records collection, Mathews County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.

Acquisition Information

Some of these items came to the Library of Virginia in shipments of court papers from Mathews County under accession numbers 22302 and 22735.

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.) Land Records, 1817-1921, consist of photostat copies of Plat Books and Indexes to Plat Books.

Related Material

Additional Mathews 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.

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:

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

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