A Guide to Northumberland County (Va.) Organization Records, circa 1765-1935 Northumberland County (Va.) Organization Records, circa 1765-1935
1133933, 1180694, 1180696, 1180700, 1180745, 1180748, 1180756-1180759, 1180761-1180763, 1180766-1180768, 1180770, 1180771,
1180791-1180793, 1180801, and 1182759
A Collection in the Library of Virginia
Barcode number: 1133933, 1180694, 1180696, 1180700, 1180745, 1180748, 1180756-1180759, 1180761-1180763, 1180766-1180768, 1180770, 1180771,
1180791-1180793, 1180801, and 1182759
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Northumberland County (Va.) Organization Records, circa 1765-1935. Local government records collection, Northumberland County
Organization Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219.
Acquisition Information
These items came to the Library of Virginia in records transfers from Northumberland County under accession numbers 43283,
43487, and unknown.
Northumberland County was named probably for the English county. It was formed about 1645 from the district of Chickacoan,
the early-seventeenth-century name for the region between the Potomac and the Rappahannock Rivers. The date of the county's
formation is conjectural because the act of assembly creating it is no longer extant, but internal evidence shows that the
county was functioning in 1645.
The county suffered some losses in a fire in the clerk’s office on October 25, 1710. Volumes beginning in 1650 that record
deeds, court orders, and wills exist.
Northumberland County (Va.) Organization Records, circa 1765-1935, typically consist of appointments of trustees, minutes,
and miscellaneous records of religious organizations, fraternal organizations, independent associations, and cooperatives.
Additional Northumberland County Records may be found in the Virginia Lost Records Localities Collection at the Library of
Virginia. Search the Lost Records Localities Digital Collection .