Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Use Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

Richmond County (Va.) Organization Records, 1870-1918. Local government records collection, Richmond County Organization Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219.

Acquisition Information

These items came to the Library of Virginia in a transfer.

Historical Information

Richmond County may have been named for Richmond borough in Surrey, England, or for Charles Lennox, first duke of Richmond and a son of King Charles II. It was formed from Old Rappahannock County in 1692. The county seat is Warsaw.

Scope and Content

Richmond County (Va.) Organization Records, 1870-1918, consists of the following church records: accounts, 1870-1918 (incomplete); communion plates from Farnham and Lunenburg County, 1876, n.d.; church and vestry meetings, 1879-1922; resignations and appointments of rectors, 1870-1917; and miscellaneous: church history, 1906; church lot enclosures, 1908; lay delegates to church council, 1898-1904-1911; election, death and resignations of vestrymen, 1872, 1890, 1892, 1905; letter to vestry, 1877; blotters and envelope, 1905, n.d.

Some volumes were burned and mutilated through unknown causes. In addition, the will books prior to 1699 were missing as early as 1793, and order books for the period 1794–1816 are also missing. Numerous loose records prior to 1781 are missing as well.

Related Material

Additional Richmond 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.

Additional Richmond County Records may be found in the Virginia Lost Records Localities Collection at the Library of Virginia. Search the Lost Records Localities Digital Collection .

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

Index Terms

Corporate Names:

• Richmond County (Va.) Circuit Court.

Subjects:

• Public records--Virginia--Richmond County.

Geographical Names:

• Richmond County (Va.)--History.

Genre and Form Terms:

• Local government records--Virginia--Richmond County.

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