Northampton County Virginia Abstracts and Admin. of 1632-1802 REVISED EDITION
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- ISBN: 0897251636
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NORTHAMPTON CO., VA, Abstracts of the Wills and Administrations of, 1632-1802. By James Handley Marshall. 736 pp. Four Indexes including Name, Negroes and Indians, Place and Subject Indexes. Revised edition. Hard cover. 2000 (1994).
Northampton County on Virginia's historically prominent Eastern Shore was one of the earliest areas in Virginia to be settled by the English. Its court records are particularly valuable since they are the oldest continuous court records in America, surpassing anything in New England.
In this well researched and exquisitely detailed volume every item of conceivable genealogical, historical or geographical import within the will or administration has been abstracted and indexed, providing the reader with almost two continuous centuries of records. Because Northampton County was settled so early in America's history, these abstracts are significant for all 17th and 18th century Virginia research.
African-American genealogists will discover here a treasure trove of information, since slaveholders often named their slaves in their wills, sometimes providing information on family groupings, instructions regarding manumission dates, etc.
This is a classic source for the Eastern Shore of Virginia and early Virginia in general!
