Hanover County Chancery Wills and Notes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780806308241)

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.

Author: William Ronald Cocke
ISBN-10: 0806308249
ISBN-13: 9780806308241
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2009
Pages: 226
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.57h x 5.48w x 0.53d