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Richmond County and the south side was called Essex County, courts to be held on the tenth of each month.
Records of deeds, wills and Court Orders from 1655 to the present time are in the Record Room of the Court House in Tappahannock, Essex County, Virginia. There is no Register of Marriages prior to 1853. Some marriage bonds dating back to 1804 have been recently recorded in the Marriage Register which began in 1853 and is known as book one.
The author in doing much research and in indexing old records found many marriages with record proof and began an Index To Marriages. By reading all deeds, wills, court orders and land trials she has secured a large number of marriages to which have been added marriages from the Marriage Register from 1853 to 1900, also the marriage bonds now recorded in this book. (I do not know who the author is, but the initials E. E. W. was at the bottom. DGJ).
WILLIAM & MARY COLLEGE, Williamsburg, VA 6-3-1973: From Robertson's History of VA. Co's., p 166 "When Goochland was formed it contained the area that is now Goochland, Albemarle, Cumberland, Amherst, Cheterfield, Buckingham, Fluvana, Powhatan, Nelson, and Appomattox. Albemarle was separated from Goochland in 1744; and Cumberland from Goochland 1748/49.
Virginia, the first permanent British colony, named by Sir Walter Raleigh in honor of Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen. Originally applied to the entire Atlantic Coast, entered the Union June 25, 1788. Has 40,815 square miles... "BUT", according to the County Judge, 1976 Orange Co., has records going back more then 225 years.
The City of Orange, is small, perched high on top of a small hill, main street on the highest point of the knob, is about 4 city blocks long (if we say) E to W, and about the same N to S, the rest of the city "FLOWS" down to the lower part.
The court house is on main street, about midway, highest, all buildings & streets "run off" from it. The court house parking lot is down hill in back, one climbs a stair steps to get above a concrete retaining wall about 8 feet high, then walks about 200 feet up a concrete walk along side buildings, there is a lot of complaining. Whoever laid out that city, never thought of the "AUTOMOBILE" & the icy snowy streets, huh?
8-30-1976, Goochland, Goochland Co., VA. sits right on the banks of the James River; the courthouse is on a hill overlooking the small town... we head for Palmyra, Fluvana Co., VA, the county is beautiful, green hills, tall trees, some turning color, very prosperous looking towns well cared for, brick homes, winding roads, up and down small rolling hills, double track railroads, cornfields about ready to schuck, cattle , raise lots of hay... mile after mile of wood board fence, some unpainted, most painted white, with 4x4 posts with 3-1 x6 boards, some with 4 nailed on horizontal... why, I got out and took pictures of them, we were enjoying it "SO MUCH" got all excited over the beautiful country, and suddenly noticed we were on Route #6-East and should have been on #6 west, and had to go back17 miles, arriving at the small town of Palmyra 6:30 pm right on the banks of the Reivanna River, to learn there was no motel there, had to go to Fork Union where the military academy is, they had a real nice motel, all so very friendly... I had my car washed, next morning there was a heavy dew and 46 degrees .. at Fluvana found a deed for Robert, Thomas & Benjamin P. Gillock, which will appear at another place .. from there we went to Louisa Co., on to Orange Co., Culpepper Co., Shenandoah Co.,
Folks, it is fun searching, "SOMETIMES", sometimes very discouraging.
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