There were different courts, but none were moved to follow the population.
The opposite is true, that when the burden of travel from distant
settlements in a county justified a separate court, this was the basis for
the General Assembly to create a new county by division of the old (or
sometimes several counties). This process is explained in detail from the
beginning of the Virginia colony to the last county formed in 1880 in "How
Justice Grew Virginia counties: An Abstract of Their Formation" by Martha
W. Hiden, , one of the Jamestown anniversary historical booklets published
by the University press of Virginia.

Richard E. Dixon


> [Original Message]
> From: ray ezell <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 12/11/2008 5:01:22 PM
> Subject: [VA-HIST] early county courthouses
>
> was it customery for very large early Virginia counties (e.g
> Listers

was it customery for very large early Virginia counties (e.g. Orange) to
hold the county court at remote locations in the county (ie. in areas that
would later be organized as a sister county).  can anyone provide examples.?

thanks
 Ray Ezell, RPA 
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