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Newport News, City of/Warwick County (Va.) Fiduciary Records, 1660-1940. Local government records collection, Newport News, City of/Warwick County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.
These items came to the Library of Virginia in a transfer of court records from Newport News, City of/Warwick County as part of accession 43558.
Newport News, City of/Warwick County was located in Warwick County, which is now extinct. The origin of the name is uncertain but the phrase "Newportes News" appeared in documents as early as 1619 and probably commemorated Christopher Newport, who made five voyages to Virginia between 1607 and 1619. Newport News was a small settlement until late in the nineteenth century, when it became the eastern terminus of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. The Old Dominion Land Company bought land there in 1880 and began laying out a new village in October. Newport News was incorporated as a city by act of the General Assembly in 1896 without ever having been incorporated as a town. On 1 July 1958 Newport News was enlarged by consolidation with the city of Warwick, which then became extinct.
Newport News, City of/Warwick County (Va.) Fiduciary Records, 1660-1940, include miscellaneous records filed in a local court by trustees, administrators, executors, guardians, and committees that related to the performance of their duties managing a person's estate. These records typically include the following; bonds, appraisements, audits, inventories, accounts, estate divisions, settlements, dowery records, etc. Information related to enslaved people are commonly found in these records.
This collection includes adminstrators' accounts, guardians' accounts, estate appraisements.
Additional Newport News, City of/Warwick County records can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. Consult A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm .