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The leather-bound book has a broken binder and the pages are yellowed, but it exhibits the flawless penmanship of John Fox, a Stafford County deputy court clerk who in 1791 was given the task of transcribing summarized court records covering 1749 to 1755."
 
Oh my god--how wonderful!  Unless you've tried to research in Stafford--especially in that period of the 1700s--you don't know what "catastrophic loss" means. Another early record turned up a number of years ago in the midwest--maybe Indiana?  I suspect a number of the record books got used for fuel...  Arrgh! How soon can I get my hands on it?  

 

> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 10:02:21 -0400
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> Subject: [VA-ROOTS] One of Virginia's treasures finally returns!
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> Jersey City library returns spoils of Civil War, a 220-year-old book of
> court records, to Virginia county
> http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2011/10/jersey_city_library_returns_s
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> Carl
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> Carl Childs
> Director, Local Records Services
> Deputy State Coordinator
> State Historical Records Advisory Board
> Library of Virginia: Archive of the Commonwealth
> 800 East Broad Street
> Richmond, Virginia 23219
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