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Powhatan County (Va.) Records, 1797-1902. Local government records collection, Powhatan County Court Records. The Library
of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219.
Acquisition Information
These items came to the Library of Virginia in transfer of court papers from Powhatan County.
Powhatan County was named for the paramount chief of the Powhatan Indians in the tidewater of Virginia in the late sixteenth
and early years of the seventeenth century. It was formed from Cumberland County in 1777, and part of Chesterfield County
was added in 1850. The county seat is Powhatan.
Powhatan County (Va.) Records, 1797-1902, consists of records from the following series: Bonds/Commissions/Oaths, Court Records,
Fiduciary Records, Overseers of the Poor Records, Tax snd Fiscal Records, and Wills. The documents record names of slaves
and free African Americans. Also included are Naturalization Records dated 1902.