Four works have been cited so often that I have abbreviated references to them throughout as follows:
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Hening |
William W. Hening, ed., The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia (Richmond, 1809–23). |
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RVC |
Susan M. Kingsbury, ed., The Records of the Virginia Company of London (Washington, 1906–35) |
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VMHB |
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography |
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WMQ |
William and Mary Quarterly |
I have also used the standard abbreviation for documents in the British Public Record Office, in which the initial letters indicate the group (C.O. for Colonial Office, T. for Treasury, H.C.A. for High Court of Admiralty, etc.). The first number, followed by a slash, indicates the class, the next number the piece, and the final number, preceded by f or ff., the folio number. I have examined most British documents in microfilm, some in the films made by the Virginia Colonial Records Survey, and some in films at the Library of Congress. For the C.O. 5 group, however, I have used the Library of Congress transcripts, made before the present numbering of the folios. Citations to the C.O. 5 series are therefore, in most cases, to the number of the document.
I have cited Virginia county court records by the name of the county and a volume number in Roman numerals. I have used the photostats and microfilms of these records in the Virginia State Library. The volumes as filmed are designated with various titles and sometimes with volume numbers, but the titles and numbers frequently bear no close relationship to the contents or to chronological order. For example, the Norfolk volumes labeled “Wills and Deeds” contain orders, and the Lancaster volume labeled “Orders, No. 1” is not the first extant order book of the county. For convenience I have arbitrarily assigned my own numbers to the volumes I have used, so far as possible placing them in chronological order. These are not all the extant volumes, for I have concentrated on the records of orders rather than on deeds and wills. The numbers I have assigned, it will be noted, do not necessarily correspond to the numbers on the volumes (some of which are numbered and some not).
The following list is of the volumes I have used and the numbers I have assigned them, together with the titles by which they are designated at the State Library. Two of the volumes, Northampton I and Northampton II have been published, and in these two cases my citations are to the published version. Some of the volumes were transcribed in the nineteenth or early twentieth century, and where the original is now illegible my citations are to the transcript.
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ACCOMACK I |
Deeds and Wills, 1663–66 |
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ACCOMACK II |
Deeds and Wills, 1664–71 |
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ACCOMACK III |
Orders, 1666–70 |
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ACCOMACK IV |
Orders and Wills, etc., 1671–73 |
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ACCOMACK V |
Wills, 1673–76 |
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ACCOMACK VI |
Wills and Deeds, 1676–90 |
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ACCOMACK VII |
Orders, 1676–78 |
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ACCOMACK VIII |
Wills, Deeds and Orders, 1678–82 |
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ACCOMACK IX |
Wills and Orders, 1682–97 |
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ACCOMACK X |
Orders, 1690–97 |
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ACCOMACK XI |
Wills, etc., 1692–1715 |
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ACCOMACK XII |
Orders, 1697–1703 |
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Henrico |
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HENRICO I |
Deeds and Wills, 1677–92 |
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HENRICO II |
Order Book, 1678–93 (Page references are to the transcript of this volume. The original is too faint to read in microfilm.) |
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Lancaster |
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LANCASTER I |
Deeds, Wills, and Settlements of Estates, No. 1, 1652–57 |
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LANCASTER II |
Deeds, Wills, and Settlements of Estates, 1654–1702 |
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LANCASTER III |
Orders, 1655–66 |
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LANCASTER IV |
Orders, No. 1, 1666–80 |
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LANCASTER V |
Orders, No. 2, 1680–86 |
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LANCASTER VI |
Orders, No. 3, 1686–96 |
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LANCASTER VII |
Orders, No. 4, 1696–1702 |
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LANCASTER VIII |
Orders, No. 5, 1702–12 |
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LANCASTER IX |
Orders, No. 6, 1712–21 |
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LANCASTER X |
Orders, No. 7, 1721–29 |
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LANCASTER XI |
Orders, No. 8, 1729–43 |
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LANCASTER XII |
Orders, No. 9, 1743–52 |
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NORFOLK I |
Deed Book A, 1637–46 |
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NORFOLK II |
Wills and Deeds B, 1646–51 |
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NORFOLK III |
Wills and Deeds C, 1651–56 |
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NORFOLK IV |
Wills and Deeds D, 1656–66 |
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NORFOLK V |
Wills and Deeds E, 1666–75 |
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NORFOLK VI |
Order Book, 1666–75 (in the same volume as Norfolk V, but beginning at the other end, with separate pagination) |
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NORFOLK VII |
Order Book, 1675–86 |
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NORFOLK VIII |
Deed Book 5, part 1, 1686–95 |
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NORFOLK IX |
Deed Book 5, part 2, 1686–95 (actually an order book) |
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NORFOLK X |
Deed Book 6, 1695–1703 |
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NORFOLK XI |
Order Book, 1742–46 |
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NORFOLK XII |
Order Book, 1746–50 |
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NORFOLK XIII |
Order Book, 1750–53 |
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NORFOLK XIV |
Order Book, 1753–55 |
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NORTHAMPTON I |
Orders, Wills, Deeds, etc., vol. I, 1632–40 (Susie M. Ames, ed., County Court Records of Accomack-Northampton, Virginia, 1632–1640. American Legal Records, VII. Washington, D.C., 1954.) |
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NORTHAMPTON II |
Orders, Deeds, Wills, etc., vol. II, 1640–45 (Susie M. Ames, ed., County Court Records of Accomack-Northampton, Virginia, 1640–1645. Charlottesville, 1973.) |
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NORTHAMPTON III |
Orders, Deeds, Wills, etc., 1645–51 |
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NORTHAMPTON IV |
Deeds, Wills, etc., 1651–54 |
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NORTHAMPTON V |
Deeds, Wills, etc., 1654–55 |
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NORTHAMPTON VI |
Orders, 1655–56 |
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NORTHAMPTON VII |
Deeds, Wills, etc., 1655–68 |
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NORTHAMPTON VIII |
Order Book, 1657–64 |
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NORTHAMPTON IX |
Deeds, Wills, etc., 1657–66 |
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NORTHAMPTON X |
Order Book, 1664–74 |
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NORTHAMPTON XI |
Deeds, etc., 1668–80 |
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NORTHAMPTON XII |
Order Book, Wills, etc., 1674–79 |
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NORTHAMPTON XIII |
Order Book, 1678–83 |
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NORTHUMBERLAND I |
Order Book, 1652–65 |
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NORTHUMBERLAND II |
Order Book, 1666–78 |
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NORTHUMBERLAND III |
Order Book, 1678–98 |
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NORTHUMBERLAND IV |
Order Book, 1699–1713 |
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NORTHUMBERLAND XII |
Order Book, 1753–56 |
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NORTHUMBERLAND XIII |
Order Book, 1756–58 |
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NORTHUMBERLAND XIV |
Order Book, 1758–62 |
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SURRY I |
Deeds, etc., No. 1, 1652–72 |
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SURRY II |
Deeds, Wills, etc., No. 2, 1671–84 |
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SURRY III |
Deeds, Wills, etc., No. 3, 1684–87 |
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SURRY IV |
Deeds, Wills, etc., No. 4, 1687–94 |
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SURRY V |
Deeds, Wills, etc., No. 5, 1699–1709 |
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SURRY VI |
Orders, 1671–91 |
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SURRY VII |
Orders, 1691–1713 |
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SURRY VIII |
Orders, 1713–18 |
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SURRY IX |
Orders, 1741–44 |
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SURRY X |
Orders, 1744–49 |
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SURRY XI |
Orders, 1749–51 |
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WESTMORELAND I |
Deeds, Wills, Patents, 1653–59 |
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WESTMORELAND II |
Deeds, Wills, etc., 1661–62 |
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WESTMORELAND III |
Orders, 1662–69 |
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WESTMORELAND IV |
Deeds, Patents, Wills, 1665–77 |
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WESTMORELAND V |
Orders, 1675–89 |
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WESTMORELAND VI |
Orders, 1690–98 |
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YORK I |
Deeds, Orders, Wills, etc., No. 1, 1633–94 |
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YORK II |
Wills and Deeds, No. 2, 1645–49 |
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YORK III |
Deeds, Orders, Wills, etc., No. 3, 1657–62 |
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YORK IV |
Deeds, Orders, Wills, etc., No. 4, 1665–72 |
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YORK V |
Deeds, Orders, Wills, etc., No. 5, 1672–76 |
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YORK VI |
Deeds, Orders, Wills, etc., No. 6, 1677–84 |
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YORK VII |
Deeds, Orders, Wills, etc., No. 7, 1684–87 |
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YORK VIII |
Deeds, Orders, Wills, etc., No. 8, 1687–91 |
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YORK IX |
Deeds, Orders, Wills, etc., No. 9, 1691–94 |
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YORK X |
Deeds, Orders, Wills, etc., No. 10, 1694–97 |
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YORK XI |
Deeds, Orders, Wills, etc., No. 11, 1698–1702 |