A Guide to the Accomack County (Va.) Records, 1697-1947 circa, undated
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the Library of Virginia
Barcode numbers: 1048660, 1122002, 1122030, 1122035, 1122037, 1176534, 1200398, 1204975, 1208486, 1208593
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Preferred Citation
Accomack County (Va.) Records, 1697-1947 circa, undated. Local government records collection, Accomack County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219.
Acquisition Information
These items came to the Library of Virginia in a transfer of court records from Accomack County. Barcode number 1200398 was transferred under accession number 44262.
Historical Information
Accomack County was named for the Accomac Indians, who lived on the Eastern Shore at the time of the first English settlement in Virginia. The word means "on-the-other-side-of-water place" or "across the water." It was one of the original eight shires, or counties, first enumerated in 1634 and spelled Accomac without the k. The county's name was changed to Northampton County in 1643. The present county was formed from Northampton about 1663. In October 1670, the General Assembly temporarily reunited Accomack and Northampton Counties as Northampton County. In November 1673, Accomack County was again separated from Northampton. In early records, the county's name was spelled many ways. In 1940 the General Assembly adopted the present spelling, Accomack. The county gained a small part of the southern end of Smith's Island from Somerset County, Maryland, in 1879, after the United States had approved boundary changes between Virginia and Maryland that had been agreed to in 1877. The county seat is Accomac.
A significant number of loose records from the 1700s suffered extreme water and pest damage. Volumes that record deeds, court orders, and wills exist.
Scope and Content
Accomack County (Va.) Records, 1697-1947 circa, consist of the following records series: Road and Bridge Records; Bonds, Commissions, Oaths; Tax and Fiscal Records; Military and Pension Records; Fiduciary Records; Clerks' Records; Election Records; Board of Supervisors Records; Overseers of the Poor Records; School Records; Marriage Records and Vital Statistics Miscellaneous Records; Court Records; Land Records; Wills; Commissioner of the Revenue Records; and Township Records.
Related Material
Additional Accomack County Records can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. Consult "A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm" found on the Library of Virginia's web site.
Accomack County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Accomack 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
- Accomack County (Va.) Circuit Court.
- Public records--Virginia-- Accomack County.
- Accomack County (Va.)--History.
- Local government records--Virginia-- Accomack County.
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Contents List
Road and Bridge Records; Bonds/Commissions/Oaths; Tax and Fiscal Records; Military and Pension Records; Fiduciary Records
Tax and Fiscal Records; Court Records: Clerks' Records; Election Records; Board of Supervisors Records; Overseers of the Poor Records; School Records; Bonds/Commissions/Oaths
Tax and Fiscal Records; Board of Supervisors Records; Election Records: Copies of property tax books for commissioners of elections, 1846-1849, Abstracts of votes, undated; Marriage Records and Vital Statistics: Death registers, 1868, 1870-1871, 1873; Miscellaneous Records: Register of sloop "Little Betsey", 1785
Court Records: Judgments, etc.; Land Records: Deeds, dower papers, etc.; Wills; Fiduciary Records: Inventories, appraisements, etc. Documents are extremely fragile.
School Records: Promotional material - Commercial College of Kentucky University, 1891; Military and Pension Records: Militia appointment, 1775; Miscellaneous Records: United States Telegraph 1834 November 4
Road and Bridge Records, Bonds/Commissions/Oaths, Tax and Fiscal Records, etc. (unprocessed)
Election Records: Lists of voters, 1865-1866; Tax and Fiscal Records: Copies of land books by parish, 1845; Commissioner of the Revenue Records, 1851, 1910; Board of Supervisors Records, 1876; Township Records: Pungoteague Township accounts, 1874 circa; Miscellaneous Records: Captain Southey Millener accounts, 1851 circa,
Bonds/Commissions/Oaths: Oaths of Allegiance, 1757-1758; Justice of the Peace Appointments, 1761-1762; Commission of Peace, 1745, 1772, 1777; Oyer and Terminer Commissions and Test Oath, 1740-1777; Miscellaneous Records: Census of Tobacco Plants, 1725, 1728-1729; Tax and Fiscal Records: Tithable Lists, 1728-1769 and undated; Tax list related to Revolutionary War debt, 1786 circa
Fiduciary Records: Executor and Administrator Bonds Book, 1727-1728, Executor Bonds Book, 1771, 1777, 1780; Orphans Bond Books, 1766, 1788-1790; Court Records: Clerks' Finance Records: Fee Book, 1807,
Court Records: Judgments, 1740, 1752, 1785; List of Actions, 1722-1723; Minute Book page, 1722; Fiduciary Records, 1697, 1786; Land Records, 1774; Miscellaneous Records: Request for wool, 1836; Overseers of the Poor Records, 1779, 1788-1789; Tax and Fiscal Records, 1782, 1809.
Fiduciary Records: District Court Inventories and Accounts of Sales (1789-1808); District Court and Superior Court Papers: militia records, judgments, criminal, tax and fiscal, jury records, county claims (1789-1850); Bonds/Commissions/Oaths: oyster bonds (1862) UNPROCESSED