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A Guide to the Lunenburg County (Va.) Court Records, 1825-1886 Lunenburg County (Va.) Court Records, 1825-1886 1202259

A Guide to the Lunenburg County (Va.) Court Records, 1825-1886

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Repository
The Library of Virginia
Barcode number
1202259
Title
previous hit Lunenburg  next hit previous hit County  next hit (Va.) Court Records, 1825-1886
Physical Characteristics
.11 cu. ft. (7 folders)
Collector
previous hit Lunenburg  next hit previous hit County  next hit (Va.) Circuit Court.
Location
Library of Virginia
Language
English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

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Use Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

previous hit Lunenburg  next hit previous hit County  next hit (Va.) Court Records, 1825-1886. Local government records collection, previous hit Lunenburg  next hit previous hit County  next hit 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 previous hit Lunenburg  next hit previous hit County .

Historical Information

previous hit Lunenburg  next hit previous hit County  next hit was named for George II, duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, a German possession of the Hanoverian kings of England. It was formed from Brunswick previous hit County  next hit in 1745.

Scope and Content

previous hit Lunenburg  next hit previous hit County  next hit (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 previous hit county  next hit and court business, 1867 and 1869. Subjects include setting up a military court in previous hit Lunenburg  next hit in lieu of the previous hit county  next hit 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 previous hit county  next hit 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 previous hit county  next hit, 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:

  • previous hit Lunenburg  next hit previous hit County  next hit (Va.). Circuit Court.

    • Subjects:

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

    • Geographical Names:

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

    • Genre and Form Terms:

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

    • Added Entry - Corporate Name:

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

Significant Places Associated With the Collection

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