Va-Histers,

The scanning of the Augusta County chancery causes began in February
2011 with that portion of records dated from 1867 to 1912 - we have now
posted images from 1867 to 1895. Case files dated from 1745 to 1866
required additional processing (arrangement, indexing, and conservation)
by LVA archival staff and will be scanned after the 1867 to 1912 portion
is complete. While I cannot provide an exact date on when the scanning
will begin on the second group, I can say that all Augusta scanning will
be completed by January 2013. As many researchers know, the pre-1913
Augusta chancery collection is by far the largest in Virginia so a two
year scanning project timeline is a actually a very quick turnaround.

Carl

Carl Childs 
Director, Local Records Services 
Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219
(804) 692-3739 (phone)
(804) 692-2277 (CCRP) (fax)
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When are we going to get some of the earlier suits?

Barbara Vines Little, CG, FNGS, FVGS

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On 11/2/2011 11:24 AM, Brooks, Vincent (LVA) wrote:
> The latest images from the Augusta County Chancery Causes digitization

> project are now available on the Chancery Records Index 
> <http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/default.asp#res>  . With this 
> addition, fifty boxes of Augusta County chancery covering the time 
> period from 1879 through 1895 may be viewed online.
>
> Following are a few suits of interest found in this latest addition.
> Augusta County Chancery Cause 1880-119 
> <http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=015-1880-119
> > is a contract dispute that centered on the construction of an 
> addition to Wesleyan Female Institute in Staunton. The case includes 
> numerous exhibits such as the 1877-1878 school bulletin (image# 
> 134-159), receipts for building materials (image# 195, 200) and two 
> drawings of the addition (image# 213, 215). Augusta County Chancery 
> Causes 1884-057 
> <http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=015-1884-057
> >
> and 1895-023
> <http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=015-1895-023
> > are property disputes in which the plaintiffs accuse the defendants 
> of doing harm to the value of their property. In the first suit, the 
> plaintiff argues that heat and fumes from the defendant's brick kiln 
> adversely affected the value of his property (image# 41). In the 
> second suit, the defendant built a slaughterhouse and stockyard near 
> the plaintiff's house (image# 491) polluting a stream and causing 
> insufferable smells and noises all of which depreciated the value of 
> the plaintiff's property.
>
> Most notably, this portion of the Augusta County Chancery Causes 
> includes suits that have their origins in the real estate boom and 
> bust period of 1890s western Virginia. Many of the suits contain plats

> of subdivisions and towns (Basic City, for example) that never came to

> be or were short-lived. See Augusta County Chancery Causes 1893-030 
> <http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=015-1893-030
> >
> (image# 103-104, 106), 1893-120
> <http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=015-1893-120
> >
> (image# 101), 1894-131
> <http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=015-1894-131
> >
> (image #139), and 1894-148
> <http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=015-1894-148
> >
> (image# 44).
>
> This scanning project is funded by the Circuit Court Records
> Preservation Program<http://www.lva.virginia.gov/agencies/ccrp/>   and
a
> $150,000 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records
> Commission<http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/>   (NHPRC).
>
> Happy researching!
>
>
>
> Vincent T. Brooks
>
> Senior Local Records Archivist
>
> The Library of Virginia: Archives of the Commonwealth
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> Richmond, VA  23219
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