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Lunenburg County (Va.) Court Records, 1825-1886. Local government records collection, Lunenburg 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 Lunenburg County.
Lunenburg County was named for George II, duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, a German possession of the Hanoverian kings of England.
It was formed from Brunswick County in 1745.
Lunenburg County (Va.) Court Records, 1825-1886, consist of records arranged into the following series: court records, free
negro and slave records, and military and pension records.
Court records consist of communications with the Freedmen's Bureau and Military District of Virginia officials about county
and court business, 1867 and 1869. Subjects include setting up a military court in Lunenburg in lieu of the county court,
payment for government horse shoeing, and a situation in which two African Americans had been murdered.
Free negro and slave records consist of the sale of runaway slave Jack (1825) and the registration of free negro Drury Cooper
after the destruction or loss of his original papers (1855).
Military and pension records include reports about monies received to furnish and clothe volunteer county military companies
(1861-1684) which mainly are accounts of items purchased and their cost, but also contains a lengthy 1862 report from the
captain of the Pryor Rifle Company that gives a report of their military activities and details loss or damage to supplies.
Also included are Reports of indigent families of soldiers from 1864 who would be supported by the county, and the Confederate
pension application of Marion J. Moore from 1886 including affidavits supporting his service claims.