County court order books contain records of all matters brought before the court while in session. The information contained in these records may not appear elsewhere. The order books typically provide a synopsis of court cases in a relatively organized format. Records you may find include appointments of local officials and militia officers, records of legal disputes, appointments of guardians for minors, apprenticeships of minors authorized by overseers of the poor, naturalizations, road orders, and the Register of free Negroes. This volume contains entries from Richmond County, Virginia Order Book 1699-1701, (this Order Book does not carry a date but on another page there is a notation that there is recorded in the Book of Orders of Court begun January ye 3d, 1699).
In 1692, Richmond County was formed from the part of (Old) Rappahannock County north of the Rappahannock River when that county was divided and abolished; Essex County was created at that same time from the lands on the south side of the river.
Ruth Sparacio and Sam Sparacio
(1991), 2016, 8.5" x 11", paper, 118 pp.
ISBN: 9781680341614
101-S0161
