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Preferred Citation:

Commissions of the Peace for Sussex County, Virginia, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information:

Acc. 2014.134 was received by Special Collections from the donor on 3/25/2014.

Processing Information:

Accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in October 2014.

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Scope and Contents

Contains three Commissions of the Peace of Sussex County, Virginia signed by Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia and William Nelson, Governor of Virginia. The documents were signed under the reign of King George II and King George III of England and contain the names of several men selected to be Justices of the Peace. Two of the documents contains the original seal.

Arrangement of Materials:

This collection is arranged chronologically.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Legal documents
• Sussex County (Va.)--History--18th century
• Sussex County (Va.)--Justices of the Peace