Peter,
You should check the Library of Virginia's Lost Records Locality Digital
collection (first link below) for an image of Lightfoot's will and more
information on this enormously popular resource. I've also included a
link to the LVA Archivist's Out of the Box blog, which discusses that
project.
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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http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/collections_a_to_z
http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2010/08/10/two-new-di
gital-collections-added-at-lva/
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Subject: [VA-ROOTS] another question of citation
Fellow sloggers:
I recently encountered a mention of a will of John Lightfoot suggested
to have been recorded in James City County Court in October 1777. As
you can all expect, there was no citation of any sort as to the source
of this will or its location.
Interestingly, it did identify Lightfoot's children -- as they can be
discovered from other documentary sources, so it could be a credible
will and not someone's imagination.
Has anyone ever encountered this will, and if so, where?
I tried the indexes at LVa and the Virginia Historical Society with out
success.
He does not appear in Crozier's _Williamsburg Wills_ (from the Chancery
Court records).
I know there are other scattered remains of James City's "burned"
records lurking out there in family collections, etc., but so far I
can't this will.
Any thoughts on Lightfoot, or additional caches of JCC records would be
appreciated.
Peter
Peter V. Bergstrom, PhD
Independent Historian
Computer & Historical Consultant
336-286-6854
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