Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

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.

Historical Information

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.

Scope and Content

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.

Arrangement

Organized by series.

Index Terms

Corporate Names:

• Lunenburg County (Va.). Circuit Court.

Subjects:

• Families of military personnel -- Virginia -- Lunenburg County.
• Freedmen -- Virginia -- Lunenburg County.
• Fugitive slaves -- Virginia -- Lunenburg County.
• Military courts -- Virginia -- Lunenburg County.
• Military pensions -- Virginia -- Lunenburg County.
• Military service, Voluntary -- Virginia -- Lunenburg County.
• Military supplies -- Virginia -- Lunenburg County.
• Poor -- Virginia -- Lunenburg County.
• Public welfare -- Virginia -- Lunenburg County.

Geographical Names:

• Lunenburg County (Va.) -- History -- 19th century.
• Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.

Genre and Form Terms:

• Accounts -- Virginia -- Lunenburg County.
• Free negro and slave records -- Virginia -- Lunenburg County.
• Free negro registrations -- Virginia -- Lunenburg County.
• Letters (correspondence) -- Virginia -- Lunenburg County.
• Local government records -- Virginia -- Lunenburg County.
• Pensions -- Virginia -- Lunenburg County.
• Reports -- Virginia -- Lunenburg County.
• Resolutions (administrative records) -- Virginia -- Lunenburg County.

Added Entry - Corporate Name:

• United States. Army. Military District, 1st.
• United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.