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Preferred Citation

Buchanan County (Va.) Circuit Court Common Law Execution Book, Volume 3, 1899-1919. Local government records collection, Buchanan County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.

Acquisition Information

This item came to the Library of Virginia in shipments of court papers from Buchanan County.

Historical Information

Buchanan County was named for the United States president James Buchanan and was formed from Tazewell and Russell Counties in 1858.

Records were destroyed by fire in 1885; records created after that date suffered extreme damage in a flood in 1977.

Scope and Content

Buchanan County (Va.) Circuit Court Common Law Execution Book, Volume 3, 1899-1919. It contains accounts of money collected by the sheriff for executions resulting from suits heard in the Circuit Court of Common Law. The money was collected for the satisfaction of the court decisions in the suits.

Related Material

Additional Buchanan County Court Records can be found on microiflm at the Library of Virginia. Consult "A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm"

See 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:

• Buchanan County (Va.) Circuit Court

Subjects:

• Public records--Virginia--Buchanan County

Geographical Names:

• Buchanan County (Va.)--History

Genre and Form Terms:

• Local government records--Virginia--Buchanan County

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