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Washington Co VA (WCV) Minute Book 18, 1869-18702017, 8x10, vi, 260 pages. $37 Continuaton of the series. (July 1, 2017) 

A little about this Minute Book: 

It begins at court 22 Feb 1869 with the case Mongle et al. vs Ireson et al.: ...forfeited forthcoming bond, and ends with office judgments from the Nov Term of court, 1870, 526 pages later.  The last court session is dated 06 Dec 1870, with WCV MB 19 beginning with the court session of 26 Dec 1870; this MB presents with the following pagination irregularities:  pages 55 & 56 & part of 57 are either missing, not filmed or blank; and there are two extra page 197’s:  p. 197B & p. 197C; in addition, there are two further extra pages: p. 209 ¼ and p. 209 ½. Handwriting of clerk’s making entries is generally clear, excepting the typical “I”/”J”.  This MB contains court entries from both the Court of Quarterly Sessions of WCV as well as the Court of Monthly Sessions of WCV. There are also some entries “nunc pro tunc” (retrospectively).
 

Among perhaps the more important overall events demonstrated by this MB are:  (a) an increased realization of the great deficiency of the 1870 WCV census, already well-known from the “1871/1872 Labour Lists” (Saltville District), and the Personal Property Tax Lists, Deed and Will books covering this period.  This should well exceed the generally estimated “5% not enumerated/missed” in censuses, and involves many permanent residents as well as those rather numerous persons, likely due, in part, to the disruptions of the Civil War, “just passing through”, many of the latter category not locatable anywhere; (b) confirmation of especially hard times as expressed at court 30 Oct 1869 (p. 160), citing “great pecuniary distress in this Co in consequence of the scarcity of money and the shortness of the  crops—especially the corn Crop”, resulting in a delay in collection of revenue; (c) Yet another “weather disaster”, p. 381, 26 Jul 1870:  ...”unprecedented rains” during the preceding time had caused great damage to the roads of the county which were in dire need of repair; this was further confirmed at Court 25 Aug 1870 (pp. 413-4 & 417); (d) the proclamation of & resulting resolutions at court relating to the death of Gen. Robert Edward Lee, CSA (p. 454: 24 Oct 1870).

— Jack Hockett & Donald Helton
 

p.s. In press: Abstracts of Washington County Virginia Minute Books 19, 20, and 21; Personal Property Tax Lists of Washington Co VA 1871-1879 (both district); in progress: WCV MB 22 (80% finished abstractions).

Washington Co VA (WCV) Will Book (WB) 1, 1777-1792

This book (description and ordering information below) consists of almost complete text of the WB 1, annotations, bibliography, dictionary of terms, original (court book) index and every name index.  In addition, insofar as possible the 5 extra pages included in this WB have also been transcribed and placed at the end of this WB.

(WCV) WB (Will book) 24,Washington Co VA 1890-1894

Fully indexed and also annotated was previously published.  A little about this work follows as well as ordering info for anyone interested.
INTRODUCTION:  This Will Book 24 (WB) begins with the Inventory of the personal property of the estate of Noah M(ilton) Hill (Sr.), taken, 13 Sep 1889, delivered to court 24 Mar 1890 and admitted to record 14 Apr 1890, and WB 24 ends 400 pages later with the admission to record of the administration account of the estate of William L(eonard) Hutton, on 22 Jan 1894, the great majority of entries falling at times between these entries.  

Washington Co VA Will Book 24

This work has been annotated, primarily using information from our own publications (Hockett, Helton) as well as those of Mr. Tom Colley, from private contributors (see abbreviations list at beginning of the WB transcription), and other sources, as cited. We would like to additionally recommend for further and more extensive information on some of the annotations, to consult the excellent work: 1850 CENSUS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY VIRGINIA ANNOTATED. By Waverly W. Barbe and edited by Ms. Shelby Ireson Edwards. 2000. This publication is available from the Historical Society of Washington Country Virginia, Abingdon, VA. Other contributors such as Ms. M. Epps and Mr. Robert Ford, Ms. Donna Jean Ford, Ms. Mary Marble, et al. have been identified as needed (please refer to the abbreviations section). 1890- 1894 Jack Hockett, indexed by Donald Helton. 2016, 8x10, iv, 183 pages. See description above.

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