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Preferred Citation

Nansemond County (Va.) Copy, circa 1710, of a Land Grant to Jeremiah Arline, 1695 Apr. 21, Robert Alonzo Brock Collection, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Acquisition Information

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.

Historical Information

Nansemond County was named for the Nansemond Indians, who lived in the area in the early seventeenth century. The word nansemond means fishing point or angle. When first established in 1637, the county was known as Upper Norfolk, but the name Nansemond was adopted in 1646. The county became the independent city of Nansemond in July 1972, and merged with the city of Suffolk in 1974. The entire area is now known as Suffolk.

Nansemond County court records were destroyed in three separate fires: the earliest consumed the house of the court clerk in April 1734 (where the records were kept at that time), the second was set by British troops in 1779, and the last occurred on 7 February 1866.

Scope and Content

Nansemond County (Va.) Copy, circa 1710, of a Land Grant to Jeremiah Arline, 1695 Apr. 21.

Related Material

Additional Nansemond County Land Records can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. Consult "A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm."

Nansemond County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Nansemond County Records may be found in the Virginia Lost Records Localities Collection at the Library of Virginia. Search the Lost Records Localities Digital Collection available at Virginia Memory.

For more information and a listing of lost records localities see Lost Records research note .

Index Terms

Corporate Names:

• Suffolk (Va.) Circuit Court.

Subjects:

• Public records--Virginia--Nansemond County.

Geographical Names:

• Nansemond County (Va.)--History--17th century.
• Suffolk (Va.)--History.

Genre and Form Terms:

• Land grants--Virginia--Nansemond County.
• Land records-- Virginia--Nansemond County.
• Local government records--Virginia--Nansemond County.

Added Entry - Corporate Name:

• Nansemond County (Va.) County Court.

Adjunct Descriptive Data

Originals are located at the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California.