Accomack County (VA.) Board of Overseers of the Poor Record Book, 1820-1857 (bulk 1820-1846)

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Accomack County was formed from Northampton County about 1663. The county gained a small part of the southern end of Smith's Island from Somerset County, Maryland in 1879, after the United States had approved boundary changes between Virginia and Maryland settled in 1877. The county was named for the Accomac Indians, who lived on the Eastern Shore at the time of the first English settlement in Virginia. The word means "on-the-other-side-of-water place." Prior to 1853, wh...

Accomack County (Va.) Board of Overseers of the Poor

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