Westmoreland County Microfilm

Date of Formation: 1653
Formed From: Northumberland County. Part of King George County was added in 1777.

Lost Records Note:

Many loose papers were burned during the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.

[Bonds/Commissions/Oaths] [Business Records/Corporations/Partnerships]
[Court Records] [Fiduciary Records] [Free Negro and Slave Records] [Land Records]
[Marriage Records and Vital Statistics] [Wills] [Miscellaneous Records]

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Local Records Categories and Contents
Reel
No.
 Bonds/Commissions/Oaths
109 ILLBond Book (includes Officials' and Fiduciary Bonds), 1980 - 1982, index, 226 p.
Reel
No.
 Business Records/Corporations/Partnerships
106 ILLCharter Book, 1, 1883 - 1926, index, 222 p.
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No.
 Court Records
  County Court
101 ILLMinute Book, 1762 - 1787, unpaged.
102 ILLMinute Book, 1770 - 1772, unpaged.
109 ILLMinute Book, 1796 - 1798
103 ILLMinute Book, 1810 - 1817, unpaged.
   FOR A FEW ORDERS, 1653 - 1659, SEE DEEDS, WILLS, PATENTS, 1653 - 1659 (REEL 1)
   FOR A FEW ORDERS, 1661 - 1662, SEE DEEDS, WILLS, ETC., 1661 - 1662 (REEL 1)
51 ILLOrders, 1662 - 1664 c, 43 fo.
51 ILLOrders, 1675 - 1689 c, p. 41-706
52 ILLOrder Book, 1690 - 1698 c, [xix] index, 263 fo.
53 ILLOrder Book, 1698 - 1705 c, [x] index, 273 fo.
54 ILLOrders, 1705 - 1721 c, [xxvi] index, 405 fo.
55 ILLOrders, 1721 - 1731 c, [xxxi], 400 fo.
56 ILLOrders, 1731 - 1739 c, [xxxi] index, 316 fo.
57 ILLOrders, 1739 - 1743 c, 212 fo.
57 ILLOrders, 1743 - 1747 c, [xxviii] index, 210 fo.
58 ILLOrders, 1747 - 1750 c, [xix] index, [1], 207 fo.
58 ILLOrder Book, 1750 - 1752 c, [xxiii] index, 166 fo.
59 ILLOrders, 1752 - 1755 c, Unpaged index, 305 fo.
59 ILLOrders, 1755 - 1758 c, Unpaged index, 223 fo.
60 ILLOrders, 1758 - 1761 c, [xxi] index, 219 fo.
60 ILLOrders, 1761 - 1764 c, Unpaged index, 130 fo.
61 ILLOrders, 1776 - 1786 c, [xlviii] index, 366 p.
61 ILLOrders, 1787 - 1790 c, [xxii] index, 366 p.
62 ILLOrders, 1790 - 1795 c, [1], [xliii] index, 508 p.
   FOR ORDERS, 1795 - 1797, SEE DEEDS [& WILLS] NO. 19, 1794 - 1799 (REEL 15)
63 ILLOrders, 1797 - 1799 c, [xxx] index, 281 p.
63 ILLOrders, 1799 - 1801 c, [xxxiv] index, 407 p.
64 ILLOrders, 1801 - 1804, [xxx] index, 495 p.
64 ILLOrders, 1804 - 1807 c, [1], [xlvi] index, 506 p.
65 ILLOrders, 1807 - 1810 c, [lxxxvi] index, 557 p.
65 ILLOrders, 1810 - 1813 c, [xxiv] index, 380 p.
66 ILLOrder Book, 1814 - 1818 c, [xlviii] index, 430 p.
66 ILLOrder Book, 1819 - 1823, Unpaged index, 619 p.
67 ILLOrder Book, 1823 - 1827, [xlii] index, [5], 377 p.
68 ILLOrder Book, 1827 - 1831, [xliii] index, [2], 384 p.
68 ILLOrders, 1831 - 1835, [1], [xlii] index, [1], 368 p.
69 ILLOrders, 1836 - 1844, [xliv] index, [1], 438 p.
69 ILLOrder Book, 1844 - 1854, Unpaged index, [2], 492 p.
70 ILLOrders, 1854 - 1860, [xxxvii] index, 469 p.
70 ILLOrder Book, 1860 - 1867, Unpaged index, 372 p.
  SEE ALSO Land Records
  Superior Court of Law
71 ILLCourt Orders, 1809 - 1823, [1], [xxiii] index, 438 p.
73 ILLCourt Records, 1809 - 1831, 83 p.
71 ILLOrder Book, 1823 - 1830, [1], [xxiii] index, 444 p.
  Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery
73 ILLChancery Order Book, 1831 - 1856, [xxv] index, [1], 414 p.
73 ILLCourt Records, 1831, [ii] index, 16 [3] p.
72 ILLCourt Orders, 1831 - 1839, [xxiii] index, 408 p.
73 ILLCourt Records, 1809 - 1831, 83 p.
  Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery and Circuit Court
72 ILLCourt Orders, 1839 - 1857, [xxxiv] index, 527 p.
  Circuit Court
114 ILLGeneral Index to Criminal Cases, 1977 - 1982, A-Z, Defendants, 199 p.
73 ILLChancery Order Book, 1831 - 1856, [xxv] index, [1], 414 p.
73 ILLChancery Order Book, 1851 - 1873, Unpaged index, 207 p.
107 ILLChancery Order Book, 1864 - 1875, 424 p., index
107 ILLChancery Order Book, 1875 - 1886, 400 p., index
108 ILLChancery Order Book, 1886 - 1905, index, 497 p.
108 ILLChancery Order Book, 1905 - 1915, index, 400 p.
101 ILLChancery Order Book, 1905 - 1915, index, 400 p.
103 ILLChancery Order Book, 1915 - 1924, index, 398 p.
102 ILLCommon Law Order Book, 1919 - 1928, index, 403 p.
132 ILLCommon Law Order Book, 10, 1965 - 1968, index, 478 p.
72 ILLCourt Orders, 1839 - 1857, [xxxiv] index, 527 p.
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No.
 Fiduciary Records
76 ILLFiduciary Book, 1742 - 1789 c, [iv] index, 11-164 fo.
50 ILLGeneral Index to Fiduciary Accounts Etc., Vol. 1, 1723 - 1917
29 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 1, 1723 - 1746 c, Unpaged index, 340 fo., [1] p.
30 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 2, 1746 - 1752 c, Unpaged index, 218 fo.
31 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 3, 1752 - 1756 c, [xviii] index, 86 fo.
32 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 4, 1756 - 1767 c, [xiii] index, 235 p.
33 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 5, 1767 - 1776 c, [xxiii] index, [1], 330 p.
34 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 6, 1776 - 1790 c, [xi] index, 541 p.
35 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 7, 1790 - 1798 c, [1], unpaged index, 504 p.
36 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 8, 1799 - 1806 c, [xxi] index, [4], 628 p. includes Estate Accounts
37 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 9, 1806 - 1815, [xii] index, 501 p.
38 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 10, 1815 - 1820, [xii] index, 506 p.
39 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 11, 1820 - 1825, [x] index, 516 p.
40 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 12, 1825 - 1826, [xviii] index, 546 p.
41 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 13, 1827 - 1829, [xvii] index, 533 p.
42 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 14, 1829 - 1832, [1], [vi] index, 463 p.
42 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 15, 1832 - 1833], [vi] index, 342 p.
43 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 16, 1833 - 1835, [ix] index, 481 p.
44 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 17, 1835 - 1838, [xi] index, 452 p.
44 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 18, 1838 - 1840, [xviii] index, 394 p. (Target incorrectly reads: 1835 - 1840)
45 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 19, 1841 - 1845, [xix] index, 571 p.
46 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 20, 1845 - 1850, [xx] index, 736 p.
47 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 21, 1850 - 1856, [xi] index, 729 p.
48 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 22, 1856 - 1858, p. 395-415 (index), 393 (3 pages of index repeated at end)
49 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 23, 1858 - 1862, Unpaged index, p. 2-553
110 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 24, 1862 - 1863, index, 91 p.
49 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 24, 1862 - 1863, Unpaged index, 91 p.
110 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 25, 1863 - 1867, index, 452 p.
49 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 25, 1863 - 1867, Unpaged index, 452 p.
110 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 26, 1867 - 1871, 460 p., index
111 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 27, 1871 - 1874, index, 395 p.
111 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 28, 1874 - 1878, 390 p., index
111 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 29, 1878 - 1883, index, pp. 1-297
112 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 29, 1882 - 1884, pp. 276-383 (continued)
112 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 30, 1884 - 1899, index, 473 p.
112 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 31, 1899 - 1910, index, pp. 1-483
113 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 31, 1909 - 1910, pp. 461-500 (continued)
113 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 32, 1910 - 1917, index, 504 p. (loose papers found at end of volume.)
113 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 33, 1917 - 1922, index, pp. 1-231
104 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 36, 1942 - 1944 (includes Administrators' Accounts, Appraisements, Executors' Accounts, and Trustees' Accounts), index, 114 p.
105 ILLRecords & Inventories, No. 54, 1967-1968 (includes Administrators' Accounts, Appraisements, Committees' Accounts, Executors' Accounts, Guardians' Accounts, and Trustees' Accounts), index, 119 p.
  SEE ALSO Bonds/Commissions/Oaths AND Wills
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No.
 Free Negro and Slave Records
100 ILLFree Negro Register, 1819-1826, index, 12 p.
100 ILLFree Negro Register, 1828-1849 (includes Estrays, 1833-1836, and List of Fines, 1831), index, 69 p.
75 ILLFree Negro Register, 1828-1849 (includes Estrays), 1833-1836, and List of Fines, 1831), index, 69 p.
100 ILLFree Negro Register, 1850-1861, index, 87 p.
Reel
No.
 Land Records
ILLDeeds, Wills, Patents, 1653 - 1659 c, 139 fo. (Contains a few Orders) Not indexed in General Index to Deeds or Gen. Index to Wills
ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 1, 1653 - 1671 c, [1], [xxiii] index, 409 [1] p.
ILLDeeds, Wills, Etc., 1661 - 1662 c, 79 fo. (Contains a few Orders) Not indexed in General Index to Deeds or in Gen. Index to Wills
ILLDeeds, Patents, Etc., 1665 - 1677 c, 17-368 [2] fo. (Contains Wills) Not indexed in General Index to Deeds or Gen. Index to Wills
ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 2, 1691 - 1699 c, [viii] index, 193 fo.
ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 3, 1701 - 1707 c, [1], [xviii] index, 451 p.
ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 4, 1707 - 1709 c, [xii] index, 253 p.
ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 5, 1712 - 1716 c, [xx] index, 634 p.
ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 6, 1716 - 1720 c, [1], [xxiii] index, 639 p.
ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 7, 1720 - 1722 c, [xxi] index, 359 p.
ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 8, 1723 - 1738, [xxvi] index, 556 p. Film of transcript. Includes deeds and wills from 1723 - 1732 (Part I)
ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 8, 1723 - 1738, [xxx] index, 590 p. Film of transcript. Includes deeds and wills from 1732 - 1738 (Part 2)
ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 8, 1723 - 1738, Pt. 1 c, [xxv] index, 1-168 fo. Film of original.
ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 8, 1723 - 1738, Pt. 2 c, 169 - 344 fo. (1 page duplicate index at end) Film of original.
ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 9, 1738 - 1744 c, [xii] index, 35 fo., 36-348 p.
ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 10, 1744 - 1748 c, [xi] index, 426 p.
10 ILLDeeds & Wills, Liber S, 1747 - 1753 c, [xxi] index, 434 p. Film of original.
11 ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 11, 1747 - 1753 c, [xix] index, 491 [1] p. Film of transcript of Liber S.
11 ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 12, 1753 - 1756 c, [vi] index, 337 p.
12 ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 13, 1756 - 1761 c, [xiii] index, 327 p.
12 ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 14, 1761 - 1768 c, p. 572-577 (index), 571 p.
13 ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 15, 1768 - 1773 c, [xxii] index, 298 p.
13 ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 16, 1773 - 1786, index, [1], [xi] duplicate index, 403 p. Volume actually dates from 1774-1786. This volume and No. 17 have different arrangements. There are some items found in one book and not the other.
14 ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 17, 1773 - 1787, index, 351 p.
14 ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 18, 1787 - 1794 c, [xiv] index, 376 p.
15 ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 19, 1794 - 1799 and Orders, 1795-1797 c, [xii] index, 395 p. (Deeds & Wills, 1794 - 1799); [xxvi] index, 196 p. (Orders, 1795 - 1797, follows p. 395)
16 ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 20, 1799 - 1803 c, [x] index, 516 [1] p.
17 ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 21, 1804 - 1808, [xii] index, 558 p.
17 ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 22, 1809 - 1813, [xxii] index, 388 p.
18 ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 23, 1814 - 1819, [1], [xii] index, 503 p.
18 a Deeds & Wills, No. 24, 1819 - 1823, [xiii] index, 547 p.
19 ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 25, 1824 - 1828, [xiii] index, 518 p.
20 ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 26, 1828 - 1831, [viii] index, 534 p.
21 ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 27, 1831 - 1833, [xv] index, 530 p.
21 ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 28, 1833 - 1835, [xiii] index, 462 p.
22 ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 29, 1835 - 1838, [xv] index, 448 p.
22 ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 30, 1838 - 1841, [xii] index, 382 p.
23 ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 31, 1841 - 1845, [xxiii] index, 575 p.
23 a Deeds & Wills, No. 32, 1845 - 1848, [x] index, 477 p.
24 ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 33, 1848 - 1851, [xxi] index, 456 p.
24 ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 34, 1851 - 1853, [xii] index, 370 p.
25 ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 35, 1853 - 1859, [xv] index, 707 p.
26 ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 36, 1859 - 1863, Unpaged index, 446 p.
26 ILLDeeds & Wills, No. 37, 1863 - 1868, p. 661-672 (index), 657 p.
115 ILLDeeds & Wills, 38, 1868 - 1871, 480 p., index
115 ILLDeeds & Wills, 39, 1871 - 1874, index, 499 p.
116 ILLDeeds & Wills, 40, 1874 - 1876, 397 p., index
116 ILLDeeds & Wills, 41, 1876 - 1880, index, 500 p.
117 ILLDeeds & Wills, 42, 1880 - 1882, 390 p., index
117 ILLDeeds & Wills, 43, 1882 - 1883, 398 p., index
118 ILLDeeds & Wills, 44, 1883 - 1884, 480 p.
118 ILLDeeds & Wills, 45, 1884 - 1885, 480 p.
119 ILLDeeds & Wills, 46, 1885 - 1887, 480 p.
119 ILLDeeds & Wills, 47, 1887 - 1888, 480 p.
120 ILLDeeds & Wills, 48, 1888 - 1889, 500 p.
120 ILLDeeds & Wills, 49, 1889 - 1891, 501 p.
121 ILLDeeds & Wills, 50, 1891 - 1892, 500 p.
121 ILLDeeds & Wills, 51, 1892 - 1893, 500 p.
122 ILLDeeds & Wills, 52, 1893 - 1894, 480 p.
122 ILLDeeds & Wills, 53, 1894 - 1896, 500 p.
123 ILLDeeds & Wills, 54, 1896, 495 p., index
123 ILLDeeds & Wills, 55, 1896 - 1898, 504 p.
124 ILLDeeds & Wills, 56, 1898 - 1899, 500 p.
124 ILLDeeds & Wills, 57, 1899 - 1900, 500 p., index
125 ILLDeeds & Wills, 58, 1900 - 1901, 500 p., index
125 ILLDeeds & Wills, 59, 1901 - 1902, 504 p., index
114 ILLDeeds, 1706 - 1804, #1-71
28 aILLDeeds, 1706 - 1804, index.
126 ILLGeneral Index to Deeds, 1653 - 1964, A-B
127 ILLGeneral Index to Deeds, 1653 - 1964, B-D (continued)
128 ILLGeneral Index to Deeds, 1653 - 1964, E-J
129 ILLGeneral Index to Deeds, 1653 - 1964, J-M (continued)
130 ILLGeneral Index to Deeds, 1653 - 1964, N-S
131 ILLGeneral Index to Deeds, 1653 - 1964, S-Z (continued)
27 ILLGeneral Index to Deeds 1, 1653 - 1831 (Does not index Deeds, Wills, Patents, 1653 - 1659; Deeds, Wills, Etc., 1661 - 1662, or, Deeds, Patents, Etc., 1665 - 1677)
27 ILLGeneral Index to Deeds 2, 1831 - 1898
126 ILLIndex to Subdivision Plat Books, 1-2, undated
76 ILLLand Causes, 1827 - 1837, 66 p.
105 ILLOyster Plat Books 1-4, 1896 - 1906, paged.
132 ILLRecord Book, 1711 - 1794, 53 p. (includes Wills, Deeds of Gift, Deeds, Letters, Powers of Attorney, Affidavits and Depositions)
  SEE ALSO Wills
Reel
No.
 Marriage Records and Vital Statistics
77 ILLBride/Groom Index to Marriages, 1772-1865
78 ILLMarriage Bonds, 1772-1793, Index
74 ILLMarriage Bonds, 1786 - 1850, [3], p. 1-78 (Marriage Bonds, 1786 - 1850); p. 79-97 (index to brides) (Stratton Nottingham compilation)
79 ILLMarriage Bonds, Vol. 3, 1793-1796, Index
79 ILLMarriage Bonds, Vol. 4, 1797-1801, (thru 1800-13a), index
80 ILLMarriage Bonds, Vol. 4, 1797-1801, (thru 1800-14), index
81 ILLMarriage Bonds, Vol. 5, 1802-1806, Index
82 ILLMarriage Bonds, Vol. 6, 1807-1811, Index
83 ILLMarriage Bonds, Vol. 7, 1812-1816, Index
84 ILLMarriage Bonds, Vol. 8, 1817-1821, Index
84 ILLMarriage Bonds, Vol. 9, 1822-1825, (thru 1823-15), index
85 ILLMarriage Bonds, Vol. 9, 1822-1825, (thru 1823-16), index
85 ILLMarriage Bonds, Vol. 10, 1826-1829, (thru 1828-21a)
86 ILLMarriage Bonds, Vol. 10, 1826-1829, (thru 1828-22), Index
86 ILLMarriage Bonds, Vol. 11, 1830-1833, Index
87 ILLMarriage Bonds, Vol. 12, 1834-1837, Index
88 ILLMarriage Bonds, Vol. 13, 1838-1841, Index
88 ILLMarriage Bonds, Vol. 14, 1842-1846, (thru 1844-31a), index
89 ILLMarriage Bonds, Vol. 14, 1842-1846, (thru 1844-32), index
89 ILLMarriage Bonds, Vol. 15, 1847-1854, Index
89 ILLMarriage Bonds, Vol. 16, 1855-1859, (thru 1856-15), index
90 ILLMarriage Bonds, Vol. 16, 1855-1859, (thru 1856-15), index
90 ILLMarriage Bonds, Vol. 17, 1860-1865, (thru 1864-4), index
91 ILLMarriage Bonds, Vol. 17, 1860-1865, (thru 1864-5), index
92 ILLMarriage Licenses, 1866-1871, Index
93 ILLMarriage Licenses, 1872-1878, Index
94 ILLMarriage Licenses, 1879-1885, Index
95 ILLMarriage Licenses, 1886-1892, Index
96 ILLMarriage Licenses, 1893-1897, Index
97 ILLMarriage Licenses, 1898-1901, Index
98 ILLMarriage Licenses, 1902-1906, Index
99 ILLMarriage Licenses, 1907-1912, Index
74 ILLMarriage Register, 1854-1908, 196 fo.
74 ILLRecord of Marriages, 1826 - 1850, Unpaged partial index, p. 1-9, [36]
74 ILLRegister of Births, 1858-1895, 174 fo.
75 ILLRegister of Deaths, 1853 [1857 - 1896], 107 fo. (No Deaths recorded for 1853 - 1856, 1862 - 1863, 1878 - 1880, or 1890)
133 ILLRegister of Marriage Licenses with Marriage Certificates, 1850 - 1920, 86 p., index (A-Z, pp. 1-52; B-W, pp. 54-62)
Reel
No.
 Wills
114 ILLWills, 1755 - 1800, #1-46
28 aILLWills, 1755-1800, index.
125 ILLWills & Inventories, 58.5, 1832 - 1903, index, 215 p.
114 ILLGeneral Index to Heirs & Devisees, 1935 - 1982, A-Z
28 ILLGeneral Index to Wills, 1, 1653 - 1950, (Does not index Deeds, Wills, Patents, 1653 - 1659; Deeds, Wills, Etc., 1661 - 1662, or, Deeds, Patents, Etc., (which contains wills) 1665 - 1677)
114 ILLGeneral Index to Wills & Fiduciaries, 2, 1929 - 1982, A-Z
126 ILLIndex to Wills, 1653 - 1967, A-Z
  SEE ALSO Land Records
Reel
No.
 Miscellaneous Records
   SEE ALSO Land Records

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