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A Guide to the Tazewell County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1800-1920 (bulk 1843-1915) Tazewell County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1800-1920 (bulk 1843-1915) Tazewell County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1800-001-1920-001

A Guide to the Tazewell County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1800-1920 (bulk 1843-1915)

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Chancery Records Index: Tazewell previous hit County  next hit (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1800-001-1920-001


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Chancery Records Index
Tazewell previous hit County  next hit (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1800-001-1920-001
Title
Tazewell previous hit County  next hit (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1800-1920 (bulk 1843-1915)
Physical Characteristics
Digital images
Collector
Tazewell previous hit County  next hit (Va.) Circuit Court
Location
Library of Virginia
Language
English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Use Restrictions

Patrons are to use digital images of Tazewell previous hit County  next hit (Va.) Chancery Causes found on the Chancery Records Index available electronically at the website of the Library of Virginia.

Preferred Citation

Tazewell previous hit County  next hit (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1800-1920 (bulk 1843-1915). (Cite style of suit and chancery index no.). Local Government Records Collection, Tazewell previous hit County  next hit Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Digital images were generated by Backstage Library Works through the Library of Virginia's Circuit Court Records Preservation Program.

Historical Information

Chancery Causes are cases of equity. According to Black's Law Dictionary they are "administered according to fairness as contrasted with the strictly formulated rules of common law." A judge, not a jury, determines the outcome of the case.

Tazewell previous hit County  next hit was originally named Alexandria previous hit County  next hit. It was formed from a portion of Fairfax previous hit County  next hit that Virginia in 1789 ceded to the federal government for use as the site of a new national capital. In 1801 the area officially became part of the District of Columbia, although Congress named it Alexandria previous hit County  next hit. By an act of 9 July 1846, Congress returned the previous hit county  next hit to Virginia, and the General Assembly extended the commonwealth's jurisdiction over the region effective 20 March 1847. By an act of assembly passed 16 March 1920, the previous hit county's  next hit name was changed to Tazewell, the name of the Custis family mansion (the home of Robert E. Lee), which is located in the previous hit county  next hit.

Scope and Content

Tazewell previous hit County  next hit (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1800-1920 (bulk 1843-1915), are indexed into the Chancery Records Index . Cases are identified by style of suit consisting of plaintiff and defendant names. Surnames of others involved in a suit, including secondary plaintiffs and defendants, witnesses, deponents and affiants, and family members with surnames different from the plaintiff or defendant are indexed. Chancery causes often involved the following: divisions of estates or land, disputes over wills, divorces, debt, and business disputes. Predominant documents found in chancery causes include bills (plaintiff's complaint), answers (defendant's response), decrees (court's decision), depositions, affidavits, correspondence, lists of heirs, deeds, wills, slave records, business records or vital statistics, among other items. Plats, if present, are noted, as are wills from localities with an incomplete record of wills or localities other than the one being indexed.

Chancery cases are useful when researching local history, genealogical information, and land or estate divisions. They are a valuable source of local, state, social, and legal history and serve as a primary source for understanding a locality's history.

Related Material

See the Chancery Records Index found on the Library of Virginia web site for the chancery records of other Virginia localities including previous hit city  next hit of Alexandria.

Additional post-1845 Tazewell previous hit County  next hit Chancery Causes will be available at a future date.

Index Terms

    Corporate Names:

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

    • Subjects:

  • African Americans--History.
  • Business enterprises--Virginia--Tazewell previous hit County  next hit.
  • Debt--Virginia--Tazewell previous hit County  next hit.
  • Divorce suits--Virginia--Tazewell previous hit County  next hit.
  • Equity--Virginia--Tazewell previous hit County  next hit.
  • Estates (Law)--Virginia--Tazewell previous hit County  next hit.
  • Land subdivision--Virginia--Tazewell previous hit County  next hit.

    • Geographical Names:

  • Tazewell previous hit County  next hit (Va.)--Genealogy.
  • Tazewell previous hit County  next hit (Va.)--History.

    • Genre and Form Terms:

  • Chancery causes--Virginia--Tazewell previous hit County  next hit.
  • Deeds--Virginia--Tazewell previous hit County  next hit.
  • Judicial records--Virginia--Tazewell previous hit County  next hit.
  • Land records--Virginia--Tazewell previous hit County  next hit.
  • Local government records--Virginia--Tazewell previous hit County  next hit.
  • Plats--Virginia--Tazewell previous hit County  next hit.
  • Wills--Virginia--Tazewell previous hit County  next hit.

Adjunct Descriptive Data

Significant Places Associated With the Collection

  • Tazewell County (Va.)--Genealogy.
  • Tazewell County (Va.)--History.
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Selected Suits of Interest

1841-003: Mathias Harman vs William McGuire, etc.:

A land dispute suit concerning property in Kentucky owned by Harman's father, Mathias Harman, Sr., who was one of the first settlers in western Virginia. The suit includes depositions concerning Harman's settlement of western Virginia.

1868-003: Granville Jones vs. Exr. of William Davis, etc.:

Dispute involves the value of town property in Tazewell Court House and Confederate money. Deponents recall the fear of citizens that Union forces were going to burn the town.

1876-027: John Peery and previous hit James Bailey vs R.W. Witten and others:

Peery and Bailey hired by trustees of M.E. Church South of Pisgah to build a church in late 1860's. Peery and Bailey suing because they did not receive full payment for their work. The trustees response to complaint was the reason they did not pay the balance owed to Peery and Bailey was because they did a poor job.

1903-043: Foote and Johnson, etc. vs Administrator of Robert Davidson Hufford

Estate dispute. Hufford was a physician who died in 1898 deeply in debt – 2500 dollars in 1898 money. Creditors sued Hufford's estate to recover what was owed them. The suit includes an account book that records the accounts of Hufford's patients. Entries in patient's record medical services rendered by Hufford including abortions.