Caroline County, Virginia Court Records: Probate and Other Records from the Court Order and Minute Books 1781-1799

Transcribed by Kimberly Curtis Campbell.

This second volume will try to fill in the "records gap" by using the Court Order and Minute Books from 1781 through 1799. Did your ancestor serve in the Militia? Check out the County Militia section. There are also Chapters on Civil matters, Guardian Bonds, Manumissions, the Tobacco Warehouses, the Courthouse and Prison upkeep, Processioning, Overseers of the Poor, Overseers of the Road, Sheriffs and other Officers, the Justices and more.

Includes Transcriptions of the following:

    Court Order Book 1781-1785
        Begins March 1781 and continues through April 1785.
    Court Order Book 1785-1787
        Begins May 1785 and continues through March 1787.
    Court Order Book 1787-1789
        Begins April 1787 and continues through May 1789.
    Court Minute Book 1787-1791
        Begins 1787, the abstracted information from this book begins June 1789 and continues through September 1791.
    The Record Books containing the orders for October 1791 through May
        1794 are among the missing records of Caroline County.
    Court Minute Book 1794 - 1796
        Begins June 1794 and continues through December 1796
    Court Order Book 1799-1802
        The abstracted information begins with September 1799 and ends December 1799.