Fauquier County, Virginia Minute Book Abstracts 1775-1779 - Paperback

by Ruth Sparacio (Author), Sam Sparacio (Author)

This volume of the Fauquier County, Virginia series contains entries from Fauquier County Minute Book, 1764-1768 beginning on page 339 and ending on page 411 for courts held November 24, 1767 through July 26, 1768; and Fauquier County Minute Book, 1768-1773 beginning on page 1 and ending on page 129 for courts held August 22, 1768 through August 28, 1769.
Court minute books contain minutes of all matters brought before the court when it was in session and may contain important information not found anywhere else. A wide variety of information is found in court minute books including appointments of county and militia officers, records of legal disputes heard before the county court, appointments of guardians, apprenticeship of children by the overseers of the poor, naturalizations, road orders, and registrations of free Negroes.