Card Index to all Ohio County Courts’ Case Files and Loose Papers, Part 2: 1826-1836
Volume 9 continues the series of this exciting new group of Ohio County, Virginia/West Virginia Records – the “Card Index to Ohio County Courts’ original case files and loose papers” housed at the West Virginia and Regional History Collection at WVU. During the 1930s, another massive project was undertaken to collect and [partially] index all the surviving Ohio County, Virginia/West Virginia Records court case files and loose papers [about 500,000 items] from every court: County, Circuit, Superior, Circuit Superior, etc. from 1776-1930! An index card was made for each document showing the plaintiff and defendant (or personal entry), the offense (or subject), the envelope number [at WVU] containing the original papers and a brief description of what documents are included in the envelope. These cards have been entered into a database and are being published for the first time ever in this book. Volume 9 covers the period 1826-1836. Future volumes will complete the remaining years. By covering all the courts, we find criminal cases such as horse stealing and murder. There are also a number of Chancery court cases and files dealing with disputes over estates. There is more detail on more persons involved in ‘Road Orders’, Grand Juries, Witnesses, wolf scalp payments, militia officers and war service. Some Land Grants and Naturalization records appear. Numerous documents [such as bonds, notes in debt cases] are indexed that have original signatures that can be helpful in confirming your ancestor’s identity. What document did your ancestor leave behind?
Kenneth Fischer Craft, Jr.
2002, 8½x11, paper, index, 625 pp.
ISBN: 9780788420481
101-C2048
