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This collection forms part of the Robert Alonzo Brock Collection at The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Collection is open to research.
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Augusta County (Va.) Circuit Court. Records, 1779-1865, Robert Alonzo Brock Collection, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
The Robert Alonzo Brock Collection was filmed by The Huntington Library in cooperation with The Library of Virginia with funding provided by The Library of Virginia Foundation with the support of The Roller- Bottimore Foundation and The Robins Foundation. Microfilm received 15 April 2004.
Augusta County was formed in 1738 from Orange County. The county government was established 1745.
Records, 1779-1865, of Augusta County consist of a copy of William Christian's will (1779) and a court order (1865) giving the county's response to the governor of Virginia's request for one hundred slaves in the county to work for sixty days on the fortifications in Richmond. The court order list the reasons why the county wanted to be exempt from the requistion of slaves stating that one third of the county's slaves have escaped and one fourth had been impressed into Confederate military service.
Originals are located at the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California.