Middlesex County (Va.) Circuit Court. Records, 1686-1875
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Brock, R. A. (Robert Alonzo), 1839-1914
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Wirt County was named for William Wirt, who gained fame in Virgtinia as a lawyer and perhaps is best known for his role in the prosecution of Aaron burr for treason. It was created in 1848 from sections of Wood and Jackson Counties. Wirt County was one of the fifty western Virginia counties to form the state of West Virginia in 1863. From the guide to the Wirt County (W. Va.) plat and land survey, 1860, (The Library of Virginia) Northumberland County was formed in 1645 from ...
Middlesex County (Va.) Circuit Court
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Middlesex County was formed from Lancaster County circa 1669. In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Virginia, the term "tithable" referred to a person who paid (or for whom someone else paid) one of the taxes imposed by the General Assembly for the support of civil government in the colony. In colonial Virginia, a poll tax or capitation tax was assessed on free white males, African American slaves, and Native American servants (both male and female), all age sixteen or ...
