A Guide to the Rockingham Public Library Collection of Rockingham County Legal Documents, 1767-1873: SC 0136
A Collection in
Special Collections
Collection Number SC
0136
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Processed by: Special Collections Staff, March 1994
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
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Use Restrictions
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Preferred Citation
[identification of item], [box #, folder #], Rockingham Public Library Collection of Rockingham County Legal Documents, 1767-1873, SC 0136, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va.
Acquisition Information
Received on deposit immediately after a February 3, 1994 contract with the Rockingham Library Association was signed. Existing organization and file headings were retained.
Processing Information
In order to streamline the process of applying collection numbers, Special Collections staff completed a large-scale renumbring campaigin in the spring of 2017. This collection was previously cataloged as SC 3060.
Bio/Historical Note
Contents relevant to Rockingham County and Harrisonburg from the earliest days of the county's formation.
Scope and Content
The Rockingham Public Library Collection of Rockingham County Legal Documents, 1767-1873, consists of one box comprised chiefly of legal documents from Rockingham County and Harrisonburg. Materials include court case documents, road and bridge records, complaints, and land causes.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into three series:
Series 1: Court Cases, 1767-1839
Series 2: Roads, Bridges, Mills, 1796-1851
Series 3: Miscellaneous, 1778-1873
Index Terms
- African Americans -- Virginia -- Rockingham County
- American loyalists -- Biography
- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
- Bridges -- Virginia -- History
- Briery Branch (Va.) Road
- Brocks Gap (Va.) Road
- Carthrae, John
- Chandler family
- Chrisman's Mill (Rockingham County, Va.)
- Coaching (Transportation) -- Virginia -- History
- Court records -- Virginia -- Rockingham County -- Sources
- Courts -- Virginia -- Sources
- Debt -- Virginia -- Rockingham County
- Dry River (Va.) Road
- Flour mills -- Virginia -- Rockingham County
- Great Road (Shenandoah River Valley, Va. and W. Va.)
- Harrison family
- Harrisonburg (Va.) -- History
- Justice, Administration of
- Mathias-Stover Mill (Rockingham County, Va.)
- Mills and mill-work -- Virginia -- Rockingham County
- Pirkey's Mill (Rockingham County, Va.)
- Poor -- Services for -- Virginia -- 19th century
- Post roads -- Virginia -- History
- Railroads -- Design and construction -- Virginia -- 19th century
- Railroads -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century
- Roads -- Rockingham County -- History
- Roads -- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) -- History
- Roads -- Virginia -- History
- Roads -- Virginia -- Maintenance and repair
- Rockingham County (Va.). Jail
- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) -- History
- Transportation -- Virginia -- History
- United States Highway 33
- Virginia -- History
- Virginia. Circuit Court (Rockingham County)
- Virginia. Circuit Court (Rockingham County) -- Sources
- Voting -- Virginia -- Rockingham County
- Wise-Dinkle Mill (Rockingham County, Va.)
- Zirkel & Byrd Mill (Rockingham County, Va.)
Subjects:
Container List
- Box:Folder 1 folder: 1
Chandler, Sr., Samuel vs. Nathan Chandler; Col. Arch Rutherford vs. Charles and David Chandler and Jacob Nicholas, 1814-1831
- Box:Folder 1 folder: 2
General court cases, 1767-1838Scope and Content
Armentrout, Nicholas vs. Mathias Stover, Ohio, 1818- 1832; Beard, Margaret vs. David Beard, 1824-1832; Harrison, Nath. & John Harrison vs. Archibald Looker, 1832; Basely, Haga, 1829; High, Jacob vs. Sally Knopp late Hupp admr. of John Hupp, 1810; Huling vs. Looker, 1820-1832; Looker, John vs. Henry Long, 1829-1831; Lindon [?], Thomas, Wm. Robertson vs. Wm. Dever, 1835- 1838; Peters vs. Pence, 1814-1839; Ragan, Daniel vs. M. Williams, 1821-1830; Scott, James vs. Jacob Hudlow, 1767-1822
- Box:Folder 1 folder: 3
McDowell, Miller vs. Wm. McMahon, 1810-1831
- Box:Folder 1 folder: 4
Rifle, Daniel vs. John Smoot, 1824-1832
- Box:Folder 1 folder: 5
Bridge, 1818
- Box:Folder 1 folder: 6
Briery Branch, 1823-1825
- Box:Folder 1 folder: 7
Brocks Gap- Peaked Mtn.-Keezletown Dove's Mill Road, 1824-1826
- Box:Folder 1 folder: 8
Dry River Road, 1799-1834
- Box:Folder 1 folder: 9
Grist mill, Wise-Dinkle, 1796-1851
- Box:Folder 1 folder: 10
Hands to work on roads, 1823-1824
- Box:Folder 1 folder: 11
Harrisonburg to Richmond, McGaheysville to Luray, Pirkey's Mill, 1822
- Box:Folder 1 folder: 12
Harrisonburg to Woodstock-Back Road, 1824-1826
- Box:Folder 1 folder: 13
Keezletown to New Market, 1825-1826
- Box:Folder 1 folder: 14
Lawyer Road, Port Republic Republic to Waynesboro, 1822-1826
- Box:Folder 1 folder: 15
Mathias Stover Mill-Fawcett, Keezletown, 1825
- Box:Folder 1 folder: 16
Mtn. Road, Chrisman's Mill, 1822-1825
- Box:Folder 1 folder: 17
Road related, 1822-1826
- Box:Folder 1 folder: 18
Road to Shenandoah County-Road past Henry Miller, 1823
- Box:Folder 1 folder: 19
Stage Road-Zirkle Byrd Mill, 1805-1822
- Box:Folder 1 folder: 20
African Americans, 1778-1851
- Box:Folder 1 folder: 21
Debts, 1787-1869
- Box:Folder 1 folder: 22
Estates complaints, 1792-1858
- Box:Folder 1 folder: 23
Estray livestock, 1826-1851
- Box:Folder 1 folder: 24
Land causes, 1796-1859
- Box:Folder 1 folder: 25
Miscellaneous (mostly summonses; also list of bonds, election results, grand jury), 1779-1873
- Box:Folder 1 folder: 26
Overseers of the Poor, 1802-1809
- Box:Folder 1 folder: 27
Railroads (Manassas Gap, Valley Branch of B&O), 1855-1892
- Box:Folder 1 folder: 28
Rockingham County seal receipt, Harrisonburg jail, 1779-1855
- Box:Folder OV
1 folder: 1
Taxes, 1783-1864
- Box:Folder 1 folder: 29
Tory: John Carthrae, 1787