News from the Library of Virginia e newsletter May 2012

http://www.lva.virginia.gov/news/newsletter/stories/2012_05-may.asp#warwick   Early Warwick County Court Records Returned to Virginia The Library of Virginia recently recovered seven documents that had been removed from the Warwick County (now city of Newport News) courthouse by a Massachusetts soldier during the Peninsula Campaign in April 1862. The court records, dated 1688–1751, include wills, a bond, and other legal documents and were discovered by Richard Trask, town archivist of Danvers, Massachusetts, among the Putnam family papers in the Danvers Archival Center at the Peabody Institute Library. The documents were returned to Carl Childs, director of the Library's Local Records Services Branch in a ceremony held in the Gordon Room of the Peabody Institute Library in Danvers on April 30.