Henrico Parish Vestry Book

The Vestry Book of Henrico Parish, Virginia, 1730-'73: Comprising a History ... edited by Robert Alonzo Brock online at:

http://books.google.com/books?id=zH4FAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=henrico+parish+vestry+book&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gfy0T_ruEsSqiAKxzoCeAg&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=henrico%20parish%20vestry%20book&f=false

Petersburg Chancery Digital Project Now Complete

News from the Library of Virginia

"The Library of Virginia is pleased to announce the completion of the Petersburg chancery causes digital project. The scanning project was funded by the Circuit Court Records Preservation Program along with a $155,071 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The collection has been digitized from 1787 through 1912 and the images added to the Chancery Records Index. The most recently added suits cover the years 1889-1912."

http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2012/05/16/petersburg-chancery-digital-project-now-complete/

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.