Mike Chesson narrated the Evacuation Fire in his *Richmond After the War* -
Warwick and other "burned counties" had sent their records to the General
Court building in Richmond for safekeeping, and the whole place went up when
the fires started to keep materiel at the docks and warehouses from falling
into Union hands spread.
   In addition to county records moved to Richmond for safekeeping, a huge
quantity of colonial records was also lost.  Conway Robinson's notes of
those records, taken in 1829, are printed as an appendix to the Second
Edition of the Minutes of the Council and General Court.


On 3/11/08, Wesley E. Pippenger <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I've run across several general references that court records from Warwick
> County, Virginia were destroyed during the Civil War.  What I would like
> to
> see is a definitive reference to an actual date, whether or not the
> records
> were virtually destroyed after a fire while solders were evacuating the
> area, whether the courthouse was torched, or something of the like.  Does
> anyone have a reference I could use?  Thanks.  Wes Pippenger.
>
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