Barbara - I see there are 339 Augusta case files currently loaded that
date between 1746 and 1800.

Donald L. Wilson, Virginiana Librarian,
Ruth E. Lloyd Information Center
  for Genealogy and Local History (RELIC),
Prince William Public Library System,
Bull Run Regional Library,
8051 Ashton Avenue, Manassas, VA  20110-2892
703-792-4540   www.pwcgov.org/library/relic


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Subject: Re: Augusta County chancery causes

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
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