Hanover County Chancery Wills and Notes - Softcover

Cocke, William Ronald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806308249 ISBN 13: 9780806308241

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2009

Synopsis

Hanover County, Virginia was erected from New Kent in 1720, which itself had been formed from York County in 1654. (In 1742 Hanover lost that portion now embraced by Louisa County.) Most of the records of the Hanover County Court were destroyed at the end of the Civil War, which is why those that did survive, the subject of this book, are of the utmost importance. Confining itself to Chancery Wills and Notes, this work consists of copies or abstracts of bills and petitions, wills and deeds, powers of attorney, administrators' accounts, depositions, receipts, and letters, bearing reference, in total, to some 7,000 persons. In the treatment and presentation of the Notes the object was to extract every detail of genealogical, biographical, and historical significance, and to arrange such matter alphabetically and chronologically in relation to families. In the treatment of the wills the aim was to provide either a comprehensive abridgement or an authentic verbatim copy. Possessing a complete name index, this is the starting point for genealogical research in Hanover County.

Edition details

• Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806308249
• ISBN 13: 9780806308241
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 226