The Library of Virginia (LVA) is pleased to announce that digital
imaging of the King & Queen and New Kent County chancery causes is now
complete. The images have been added to the Library's on-line Chancery
Records Index
<http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/local/chancery/index.htm>  and are
now available for searching through the LVA website. The King & Queen
County chancery collection covers the years 1818 through 1913 (bulk 1840
through 1913).  New Kent's chancery causes include records from 1848
through 1956.  These counties join the growing list of localities whose
chancery causes have been preserved and made available through the
Library's innovative Circuit Court Records Preservation Program, which
seeks to preserve the historic records of Virginia's Circuit Courts.
Please see the Chancery Records Index for a listing of additional
locality chancery collections that are available. 

 

Chancery causes are cases that are decided on the basis of equity and
fairness as opposed to the strictly formulated rules of common law
cases. Chancery cases are especially useful when researching local
history, genealogical information, and land or estate divisions. They
are a valuable source of local, state, social, and legal history and
serve as a primary source for understanding a locality's history.
Chancery causes often contain correspondence; property lists, including
slaves; lists of heirs; and vital statistics, along with many other
records. Some of the more common types of chancery causes involve
divisions of the estate of a person who died intestate (without a will);
divorces; settlements of dissolved business partnerships; and
resolutions of land disputes.

 

 

Vincent T. Brooks

Senior Local Records Archivist

The Library of Virginia

800 E. Broad St.

Richmond, VA  23219

804/225-4452 (voice)

804/692-2277 (fax)

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