A Guide to the Mathews County (Va.) Records, 1792-1952
A Collection in
the Library of Virginia
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Preferred Citation
Mathews County (Va.) Records, 1792-1952. Local government records collection, Mathews County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219
Acquisition Information
A portion of this collection came to the Library of Virginia in shipments of court papers from Mathews County including a shipment under accession number 21813.
Historical Information
Mathews County was named for Thomas Mathews, of Norfolk, the Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1790 when the county was formed from Gloucester County.
Most records were burned in Richmond on 3 April 1865, where they had been moved for safekeeping during the Civil War.
Scope and Content
Mathews County (Va.) Records, 1792-1952, include various records from the following series: Bonds/Commissions/Oaths, Board of Supervisors' Records, Business Records, Court Records, Election Records, Fiduciary Records, Land Records, Marriage Records, Miscellaneous Records, Organization Records, Public Building and Grounds, Road and Bridge Records, School Records, and Tax and Fiscal Records, Town Administrative Records, and Wills.
Related Material
Additional Mathews County Records can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. Consult "A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm."
See the Lost Records Localities Digital Collection available at Virginia Memory.
For more information and a listing of lost records localities see Lost Records research note .
Contents List
Accounts; Oaths; Bonds; Commonwealth Causes
Glebe Interest; Miscellaneous Bonds; Dutton Bros. Vouchers, Mobjack Transp. Co. Minutes
Criminal Warrants; Warrant Executions; Recognizances; Warrants of Arrest; Commssions of Justices
Powers of Attorney; Petitions and Applications; Oyster Inspector Reports
Lists of Writings Admitted; Glebe Interest; Enumeration
Fiduciaries; License; Merchant Licenses; Liquor Law; Taxes Assessed; Personal Property Taxes; Reassessments of Lands
Plat of Jesse Miller, Plats of Oyster Area Mobjack Bay, Other Plats; Blueprints of Side Wheel Steamer
Plats and Oyster Plats; List of Voters; Register of Marriages
Personal Property and Land Book; Poll Books; Marriage Register
Clerk's Correspondence; Clerk's Fees; Commissioners' Reports; County Court Dockets; Court Finance; Criminal Pardons; Executions; Fragments; Jury Certificates
Estate papers; Administrator/Guardian/Executor Records; Orders; Settlements of Estates; Trustee appointments; Smallpox epidemic papers; Deeds; Bills of sale of enrolled vessels; Lists of Conveyances; Miscellaneous land records (petitions for wharf, reservation of title, petitions to open oyster beds, land purchase report and survey, application to purchase delinquent lands); Marriage License Authorizations; Applications for military pension; Lists of expenses incurred since the close of the war (Civil War); Act of Assembly; Glass plate negative of unknown woman; Mechanics liens; Powers of Attorney; Resolutions; Appointment of new trustees; Overseer of the Poor Records
Board of Supervisors Records; Application for certificate to practice law; Appointments of Officials; Oaths of Office; Officials' bonds; Officials' resignations; Petitions to appoint/remove oyster inspectors; Removal of officials; Treasurers bonds; Corporations/Partnership Contracts; Insurance Policies; Abstract of Minute Book; Attorney's memorandums; Bonds and Accounts; Chancery fees; Chancery warrants; Clerk's correspondence
Courthouse/jail inspections/repairs; School commissioners accounts; School commissioners reports; Township Records; Wills; Wrappers
Executions; Page from fee book; Index to unidentified docket book; Bonds/Commissions/Oaths; Election Records; Unidentified lawyer's notes
Deeds; Deeds and Contracts; Land Alterations; Processioners' Report; Militia District No. 1 Records; Justice of the Peace Commissions; Court Records; Petitions of Widows and Orphans for Support Under the State Law; List of Military Pensioners; Act of 1900 and 1902; Lists of Indigent Soldiers(Civil War); Applications for Military Pensions; Applications for Exemption From Military Duty (Civil War); Lane Diggs Camp Correspondence; United Confederate Veterans Correspondence; Sands Smith Correspondence
Surveyor of Road Appointments, Reports, Accounts; Road Cases Disposed Of; Road Surveys, Reports, and Petitions; Marriage Licenses to be Recorded; Marriage License; Notices of Candidacy
Correspondence to the Mathews Journal newspaper concerning World War I service, including History Commission Questionnaires; Mathews Baseball Club Correspondence
Improper Assessment of Land; Reassessments; Lists of Oyster Planters
Lists of Jurors; Orders; Adoptions; Declarations of Intent; Petitions to change court day; Special Commissions to take proof of lost records; Summons; Warrants; Election Records; Assignments of dower
Road Warrants; Jury Claims; Revenue Returns; Warrants; Receipts and Dispursements