Wills from Virginia Land Office records, A-Z, 1656-1868.

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Wills from Virginia Land Office records, A-Z, 1656-1868.

These records contain wills included as supplemental papers in several series of Land Office records but removed from the records and set up as a separate series. There are no cross references to the specific series from which the wills were removed. The wills are from the years 1656; 1679; 1690; 1726; 1750; 1752; 1758-1759; 1761-1763; 1767; 1770; 1772; 1774; 1784-1786; 1789; 1795-1796; 1800; 1803-1804; 1808; 1810-1811; 1815; 1817; 1819; 1831; 1834; 1845; 1848-1849; 1851; 1868.

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Library of Virginia

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