![[logo]](http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/logos/lva.jpg)
Library of Virginia
The Library of Virginia© 2021 By The Library of Virginia. All Rights Reserved.
Processed by: Library of Virginia staff
There are no restrictions.
There are no restrictions.
Powhatan County (Va.) Records, circa 1780-1923. Local government records collection, Powhatan County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219.
These boxes came to the Library of Virginia in a transfer of records from Powhatan County.
Powhatan County was named for the paramount chief of the Powhatan Indians in the tidewater of Virginia in the late 16th and early years of the 17th century. The county was formed from Cumberland County in 1777, and part of Chesterfield County was added on 16 March 1850.
Powhatan County (Va.) Records, circa 1780-1923, consist of the following series: Miscellaneous Records, Fiduciary Records, Bonds/Commissions/Oaths, Court Records (subfield series include Judgments, Criminal Records, Jury Records, Clerks' Records, Personal Documentation and Court Finance), Tax and Fiscal Records, Election Records, County Administrative Records (subfield series include Overseers of the Poor Records, Board of Supervisors Records, School Board Records and Sheriff's Records), Marriage Records and Vital Statistics, Business Records, Land Records, Wills, Organization Records and School Records.
Additional Powhatan County Records can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. Consult "A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm" found on the Library of Virginia's web site.
Miscellaneous Records: Power of Attorney; Estray Papers; Fiduciary Records: Executors' Accounts; Inventories; Appraisements; Estate Accounts; Administrators' Bonds; Bonds/Commissions/Oaths: Varous Bonds. Court Records: Judgments: Delivery Bonds; Requests for Judgment. Tax and Fiscal Records: List of Insovlents; County Levy Papers; Court Records: Commonwealth Causes. UNPROCESSED.
Fiduciary Records: Guardians' Accounts; Inventories and Appraisements; Administrators' Bonds; Accounts of Sales; Assignments of Dower; Division of Negroes; Tax and Fiscal Records: Lists of Insolvents; County Levy Papers; Lists of Taxable Property; Bonds/Commissions/Oaths: Various Bonds. Court Records: Papers Related to Judgments; Election Records: Poll of Election of Overseers of Poor; County Administrative Records: Overseers of the Poor Records: Accounts; Miscellaneous Records: Power of Attorney; Marriage Records and Vital Statistics: Marriage Agreements. UNPROCESSED.
Bonds/Commissions/Oaths: Various Bonds; Election Records: Petitions Concerning Precincts; Fiducuiary Records: Appraisements; Administrators' Reports; Estate Accounts. Court Records: Judgments; Lists of Subpeonas. County Administrative Records: Overseers of the Poor Records: Accounts. UNPROCESSED.
Election Records: Notices of Candidacy and Reports; Marriage Records and Vital Statistics: Certificates of Births and Deaths.
Bonds/Commissions/Oaths, 1895-1896, 1911-1923; County Administrative Records: Board of Supervisors Records: Minutes, 1911-1913; Business Records: Correspondence and Accounts Re: David E. Harris, 1876-1910 and Account of William S. Warrock to Isaac Mercer, 1859.
Land Records: Lodged Deeds and Agreements, Memo of Deeds, Order of Deed, Receipts for Deeds; County Administrative Records: Overseers of the Poor Records; Miscellaneous Records: Powers of Attorney.
Land Records: Unrecorded Deeds, Memo about Deeds; Fiduciary Records: Guardians' Accounts, Lodged Guardian Account, Bonds; Miscellaneous Records: Powers of Attorney; Wills: Lodged Wills and inventories.
Bonds/Commissions/Oaths; Fiduciary Records; Organization Records; County Administrative Records: Overseers of the Poor Records; Tax and Fiscal Records; Marriage Records and Vital Statistics. Partially Processed.
Court Records: Various Series; Tax and Fiscal Records: Commonwealth Claims; Bonds/Commissions/Oaths; Court Records: Jury Records. Unprocessed.
Tax and Fiscal Records (Commonwealth Claims), Organizational Records (Appointment of Trustees; Includes de Sale Charter); Clerk's Records (Reports; List of Merchants in Powhatan County, 1854-1855); School Records (Commissioners Reports, 1830-1835) County Administrative Records: School Board Records: Huguenot District School Board Order to Purchase Land for Corinth School, 1913); Miscellaneous Records (Powers of Attorney); Bonds/Commissions/Oaths (1830-1835). Unprocessed.
Court Records: Jury Records (Venire Facias, 1903-1907); Bonds, Commissions, Oaths; Tax and Fiscal Records (Petitions and Applications for Liquor Licenses; Delinquent Land Records); Fiduciary Records; Organizational Records (Petitions to Appoint Church Trustees, 1895); Sheriff's Records (Report of Prisoners in Jail, 1904-1911); Court Records: Personal Documentation-DO NOT SERVE (Adoption Records, 1898-1905; Certificate of Citizenship, 1907; Declarations of Intention to Become a Citizen, 1910); Clerks' Records (Memos, Costs; Lists of Writings Committed to Record.)
Election Records (1881), Bonds/Commissions/Oaths; Fiduciary Records (Accounts, Inventories, and Appraisements, 1787, Divisions, Assignments of Dower; Includes a Plat of Samuel Woodfin's Land, 1832 and Report of Laying off of Abraham Depp's land, 1832); Tax and Fiscal Records (Levy Claims, Ordinary License Bonds, 1794), Commonwealth Claims; Receipts (includes receipt for Otis Toomer's and George White's Pedlar's License Tax, 1816) ; County Administrative Records: Overseers of Poor Records: Report, 1816; Coury Records: Jury Records: Return, 1844; Clerk's Records (Order to Index Deeds and Wills, 1872.)
Tax and Fiscal Records: Commonwealth Claims; Bonds/Commissions/Oaths (1782); Court Records: Court Finance: Fee Bills; Court Records: Jury Records, Returns; Miscellaneous Records: Powers of Attorney; Court Records, Wrappers.