Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Virginia. Land Office. Wills from Virginia Land Office Records, 1656-1868. Accession Land Office inventory entry no. 10, State government records collection, The Library of Virginia, Archives Branch, Richmond, VA 23219.

Acquisition Information

Accession LOI 10 transferred by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1948.

Scope and Content

These records contain copies of wills that were included as supplemental papers in several series of Land Office records but removed from the records and set up as a separate series. There are no cross references to the specific series from which the wills were removed. The wills are dated between 1656 and 1868; in many cases the copies were made significantly later than the original wills.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into the following series:

The items are arranged alphabetically.

Index Terms

Persons:

• Bell, James.
• Bentley, Thomas.
• Brent, Daniel Carroll
• Brinker, Henry.
• Brown, Michael.
• Carson, Charles S.
• Couch, Samuel.
• Crutchfield, John.
• Digges, Cole.
• Duff, Roger.
• Ellis, John.
• Evans, John.
• Farley, Thomas.
• Folsom, Israel.
• Fontaine, William, 1754-1810.
• Garnett, Henry.
• Hays, Andrew.
• Hays, James.
• Hughes, Ralph.
• Jenkins, Aaron.
• Johnson, Jeoffry.
• Johnson, Robert.
• Lee, Ann R.
• Lee, Henry.
• Legrand, Paulina.
• Malin, David.
• McClenachan, John.
• Morton, Hezekiah.
• Morton, Pattey.
• Nelson, Thomas.
• O'Donell, Thomas.
• O'Neal, Arthur.
• Peachey, Samuel.
• Peachey, William.
• Peck, John.
• Powell, Benjamin.
• Price, Leonard.
• Read, Edmund, d. 1802.
• Sanders, William.
• Simmons, Cary.
• Sparks, Henry.
• Stuart, Alexander.
• Thweatt, Thomas.
• Travis, Edward.
• Vele, Morris.
• Walker, Edward.
• Watson, Andrew.
• Woodlief, Francis E., (Eppes).

Corporate Names:

• Virginia. Land Office

Subjects:

• Wills -- Virginia.
• Wills. -- South Carolina. -- Charleston.

Genre and Form Terms:

• State government records.
• Wills -- Virgina -- Goochland County.
• Wills -- Virginia -- Augusta County.
• Wills -- Virginia -- Charlotte County.
• Wills -- Virginia -- Culpeper County.
• Wills -- Virginia -- Dinwiddie County.
• Wills -- Virginia -- Essex County.
• Wills -- Virginia -- Floyd County.
• Wills -- Virginia -- Frederick County.
• Wills -- Virginia -- Giles County.
• Wills -- Virginia -- Hampshire County.
• Wills -- Virginia -- Hanover County.
• Wills -- Virginia -- Hardy County.
• Wills -- Virginia -- Henrico County.
• Wills -- Virginia -- James City County.
• Wills -- Virginia -- Loudoun County.
• Wills -- Virginia -- Montgomery County.
• Wills -- Virginia -- Northumberland County.
• Wills -- Virginia -- Petersburg.
• Wills -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
• Wills -- Virginia -- Prince William County.
• Wills -- Virginia -- Richmond County.
• Wills -- Virginia -- Rockbridge County.
• Wills -- Virginia -- Smyth County.
• Wills -- Virginia -- Spotsylvania County.
• Wills -- Virginia -- Stafford County.
• Wills -- Virginia -- Washington County.
• Wills -- Virginia -- Westmoreland County.
• Wills -- Virginia -- Wythe County.