Wills and Administrations of Elizabeth City County, Virginia, 1688-1800, with Other Genealogical and Historical Items

Wills and Administrations of Elizabeth City County, Virginia, 1688-1800, with Other Genealogical and Historical Items PDF Author: Blanche Adams Chapman
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806309091
Category : Elizabeth City County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Book Description
Owing to an unfortunate error in Clayton Torrence's Virginia Wills and Administrations it is widely believed that the early probate records of Elizabeth City County do not exist. This present volume is in large part a correction of that error, and indeed the bulk of it is devoted to abstracts of the county's wills and administrations for the period 1688 to 1800. As an aid to research in the county (now the independent city of Hampton), this work further includes such items as an index to land patents, the quit rent rolls for 1704, tithables of 1782, soldiers of 1776, marriage records, and lists of burgesses, justices, sheriffs, clerks, surveyors, and much else besides.