Project Update~

 

Additional images from the Augusta County Chancery Causes are now
available on the Chancery Records Index
<http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/chancery/> . With this
addition, one hundred boxes of Augusta County chancery covering the time
period from 1867 to 1879 can be viewed online. More digital images will
follow as work on this undertaking continues. Following are a few suits
of interest found in this latest image posting:

 

Augusta County Chancery Cause 1876-058
<http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=015-1876-058>
includes a letter (image# 252-253) written from Orange County, Virginia,
by one of the plaintiffs when he was a soldier in the 25th Virginia
Infantry during the Civil War. The 25th Infantry saw action in most of
the eastern theater's major battles including Stonewall Jackson's Valley
Campaign and Gettysburg.  In Augusta County Chancery Cause 1876-072
<http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=015-1876-072>
(image# 20), a liquor manufacturer sued the city of Staunton claiming
the city had no right to tax its liquor. Augusta County Chancery Cause
1877-029
<http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=015-1877-029>
(image #11-15) involves a dispute between a group of freed slaves and
their former owner's executor. A genealogical chart of the Dull family
can be found in Augusta County Chancery Cause 1879-042
<http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=015-1879-042>
(image#1765).  These cases represent a portion of the over ten thousand
suits found in the Augusta County Chancery Causes collection documenting
the rich heritage of Augusta County and western Virginia.

 

This project has been made possible through a partnership between The
Library of Virginia's Circuit Court Records Preservation Program and
Augusta County Circuit Court Clerk's office and with generous support
from National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

 

 

Vincent T. Brooks

Senior Local Records Archivist

The Library of Virginia: Archives of the Commonwealth

800 E. Broad St.

Richmond, VA  23219

804/225-4452 (voice)

804/692-2277 (fax)

Website: http://www.lva.virginia.gov
<blocked::http://www.lva.virginia.gov/>  

Blog: Out of the Box
<http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/> 

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