Wills and Administrations of Elizabeth City County, Virginia, 1688-1800, with Other Genealogical and Historical Items

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Wills and Administrations of Elizabeth City County, Virginia, 1688-1800, with Other Genealogical and Historical Items is written by Blanche Adams Chapman and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0806309091 (ISBN 10) and 9780806309095 (ISBN 13).

Owing to an unfortunate error in Clayton Torrence's Virginia Wills and Administrations it is widely believed that the early probate records of Elizabeth City County do not exist. This present volume is in large part a correction of that error, and indeed the bulk of it is devoted to abstracts of the county's wills and administrations for the period 1688 to 1800. As an aid to research in the county (now the independent city of Hampton), this work further includes such items as an index to land patents, the quit rent rolls for 1704, tithables of 1782, soldiers of 1776, marriage records, and lists of burgesses, justices, sheriffs, clerks, surveyors, and much else besides.