New Kent County (Va.) Birth Records, 1871-1886

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New Kent County (Va.) Birth Records, 1871-1886

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New Kent County may have been named either for the English county of Kent or for Kent Island, in the upper waters of the Chesapeake Bay. William Claiborne, a native of Kent who had been driven from Kent Island by Lord Baltimore, was a prominent resident of the New Kent area about 1654 when the county was formed from York County. Part of James City County was added in 1767. The county seat is New Kent. Records were destroyed when John Posey set fire to the courthouse on 1...