Princess Anne County Microfilm

County and City Records on Microfilm › VA › Princess Anne County

Date of Formation: 1691

Formed From: Lower Norfolk County. Now extinct, incorporated into the city of Virginia Beach in 1963.

Reel No.	ILL indicates a copy is available for loan	Local Records Categories and Contents
Reel No.		Business Records/Corporations/Partnerships
75	ILL available	General Index to Charters, A - Mc, undated.
75	ILL available	General Index to Charters, N - Z, undated.
Reel No.		County Administrative Records
76	ILL available	Electoral Board Minute Book, 1885 - 1916
76	ILL available	Electoral Board Minute Book, 1950 - 1963, 228 p.
76	ILL available	Electoral Board Minute Book, 1952 - 1962, 95 p.
76	ILL available	Road and Bridge Commissioner's Book, 1926 - 1928, 23 p.
Reel No.		Court Records
		County Court
		Minute Book
38	ILL available	Order Book No. 1, 1691 - 1714, index, Pt. 1 pp. 21-228, Pt. 2, p. 229-496
38	ILL available	Minute Book No. 2, [Orders] 1709 - 1717 c, 274 p.
39	ILL available	Minute Book No. 3, [Orders] 1717 - 1728 c, 325 p.
39	ILL available	Minute Book No. 4, [Orders] 1728 - 1737 c, [xxxvii] index, 359 p.
39	ILL available	Minute Book No. 5, [Orders] 1737 - 1744 c, 260 p.
40	ILL available	Minute Book No. 6, [Orders] 1744 - 1753 c, Unpaged index (partially mutilated), 361 p., [1] fragment
40	ILL available	Minute Book No. 7, [Orders] 1753 - 1762, [xxiii] index, 536 p. (p. 531-536 are a duplicate index)
40	ILL available	Minute Book No. 8, [Orders] 1762 - 1769 c, Unpaged index, 536 p.
41	ILL available	Minute Book No. 9, [Orders] 1770 - 1773 c, [xxxiii] index, 542 p.
41	ILL available	Minute Book No. 10, [Orders] 1773 - 1782, Unpaged index (typescript), 563 [1] p.
42	ILL available	Minute Book No. 10, [Orders] 1773 - 1782, Unpaged index (typescript), 564 p. (typescript)
41	ILL available	Minute Book No. 11, [Orders] 1782 - 1784 c, [1], [xi] index, 240 p.
43	ILL available	Minute Book No. 14, [Orders] 1782 - 1790 [1788 - 1790], [1], [xxxix] index, [1], 464 p.
43	ILL available	Minute Book No. 12, [Orders] 1786 - 1787, [Processioners Returns, 1796 - 1858] p. 1-105 (Minute Book, 1786 - 1787); [1] index, p. 1-513 (Processioners Returns, 1796 - 1858, follows p. 105)
43	ILL available	Minute Book No. 13, [Orders] 1787 - 1788 c, [1], [xxvi] index, 192 p.
43	ILL available	Minute Book No. 15, [Orders] 1790 - 1792, [xxviii] index, 325 p.
44	ILL available	Minute Book No. 16 [Orders] 1792 - 1795 c, 572 p.
44	ILL available	Minute Book No. 17, [Orders] 1796 - 1798 c, [xxviii] index, 363 p.
44	ILL available	Minute Book No. 18, [Orders] 1798 - 1801, [xl] index, 451 p.
45	ILL available	Minute Book No. 19, [Orders] 1802 - 1805, [xxxvi] index, 553 p.
45	ILL available	Minute Book No. 20, [Orders] 1805 - 1808, [2], 364 p.
45	ILL available	Minute Book No. 21, [Orders] 1808 - 1810, [xxxii] index, 384 p.
45	ILL available	Minute Book No. 22, [Orders] 1810 - 1813, p. 8-271
46	ILL available	Minute Book No. 23, [Orders] 1813 - 1816, [xxxi] index, 300 p.
46	ILL available	Minute Book No. 24, [Orders] 1816 - 1819, [3], 359 p.
46	ILL available	Minute Book No. 25, [Orders] 1819 - 1822, [xxv] index, 300 p.
46	ILL available	Minute Book No. 26, [Orders] 1822 - 1824, [xxviii] index, 288 p.
47	ILL available	Minute Book No. 27, [Orders] 1824 - 1827, [1], [xxxi] index, 301 p.
47	ILL available	Minute Book No. 28, [Orders] 1827 - 1829, [1], [xxx] index, 291 p.
47	ILL available	Minute Book No. 29, [Orders] 1830 - 1832, [1], [xxvii] index, 304 p.
47	ILL available	Minute Book No. 30, [Orders] 1832 - 1836, [1], [xxvii] index, 387 p.
47	ILL available	Minute Book No. 31, [Orders] 1836 - 1838, [1], [xxiii] index, 281 p.
48	ILL available	Minute Book No. 32 [Orders] 1838 - 1841, [1], [xxxi] index, 282 p.
48	ILL available	Minute Book No. 33 [Orders] 1841 - 1843, [1], [xxvii] index, 271 p.
48	ILL available	Minute Book No. 34 [Orders] 1843 - 1845, [1], [xxii] index, 353 p.
49	ILL available	Minute Book No. 35 [Orders] 1846 - 1849, [1], [xxxix] index, 386 p.
49	ILL available	Minute Book No. 36 [Orders] 1849 - 1853, [2], [xxi], [9] index, 409 p.
49	ILL available	Minute Book No. 37 [Orders] 1854 - 1857, [2], [xxxi] index, 379 p.
49	ILL available	Minute Book No. 38 [Orders] 1857 - 1861, [3], [xxxvi] index, 423 p., 2 items
75	ILL available	Docket Book, 1795 - 1800 (includes new causes & references)
51	ILL available	Reports in Chancery, No. 1, 1814 - 1829, Unpaged index, 403 p.
51	ILL available	Reports in Chancery, No. 2, 1829 - 1849, Unpaged index, 521 p.
		Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery
50	ILL available	Chancery Order Book No. 1, 1831 - 1858, Unpaged index, 355 p.
		Circuit Court
50	ILL available	Chancery Order Book No. 1, 1831 - 1858, Unpaged index, 355 p.
76	ILL available	Common Law Order Book, 1901 - 1904, index, 61 p.
Reel No.		Fiduciary Records
55	ILL available	Audit Book No. 1, 1783 - 1792, Unpaged index, [ca. 500 p.]
58	ILL available	Audit Book No. 10, 1825 - 1828, Unpaged index, 511 p.
59	ILL available	Audit Book No. 11, 1828 - 1831, Unpaged index, 510 [1] p.
59	ILL available	Audit Book No. 12, 1831 - 1834, Unpaged index, 507 p.
60	ILL available	Audit Book No. 13, 1834 - 1835, Unpaged index, 420 p.
60	ILL available	Audit Book No. 14, 1835 - 1837, Unpaged index, 522 p.
61	ILL available	Audit Book No. 15, 1837 - 1839, Unpaged index, 519 p.
61	ILL available	Audit Book No. 16, 1839 - 1843, Unpaged index, 491 p.
62	ILL available	Audit Book No. 17, 1843 - 1845, Unpaged index, 439 p.
62	ILL available	Audit Book No. 18, 1845 - 1847, Unpaged index, 580 p.
63	ILL available	Audit Book No. 19, 1848 - 1851, Unpaged index, 506 p.
55	ILL available	Audit Book No. 2, 1792 - 1798, Unpaged index, [ca. 500 p.]
63	ILL available	Audit Book No. 20, 1850 - 1853 (Contains Guardians Accounts, No. 13, 1850 - 1853), Unpaged index, 452 p.
63	ILL available	Audit Book No. 21, 1853 - 1862, Unpaged index, 613 [1] p.
55	ILL available	Audit Book No. 3, 1799 - 1804, Unpaged index, [ca. 460 p.]
56	ILL available	Audit Book No. 4, 1804 - 1809, Unpaged index, [ca. 500 p.]
56	ILL available	Audit Book No. 5, 1809 - 1814, Unpaged index, [ca. 350 p.]
56	ILL available	Audit Book No. 6, 1815 - 1817, Unpaged index, 409 [1] p.
57	ILL available	Audit Book No. 7, 1818 - 1821, Unpaged index, 500 p.
57	ILL available	Audit Book No. 8, 1821 - 1825, Unpaged index, 520 p.
58	ILL available	Audit Book No. 9, 1825, Unpaged index, 417 [6] p.
	ILL not available	FOR GUARDIANS ACCOUNTS NO. 13 SEE AUDIT BOOK NO. 20, 1850-1853 (REEL 63)
	ILL not available	FOR GUARDIANS ACCOUNTS NO. 2, 1774-1777 SEE DEED BOOK NO. 16 (REEL 13)WHICH CONTAINS GUARDIANS ACCOUNTS BUT HAS THE TITLE: ORPHANS ACCOUNTS
64	ILL available	Guardians Accounts No. 1, 1736 - 1773 c, Unpaged index, 138 fo.
66	ILL available	Guardians Accounts No. 10, 1833 - 1838, Unpaged index, 410 p.
66	ILL available	Guardians Accounts No. 11, 1839 - 1845, Unpaged index, 498 p.
66	ILL available	Guardians Accounts No. 12, 1845 - 1851, Unpaged index, 330 p.
67	ILL available	Guardians Accounts No. 14, 1853 - 1859, Unpaged index, 611 p.
67	ILL available	Guardians Accounts No. 15, 1859 - 1871, p. 350 - 380 (Index and various accounts), p. 1-349 [1]
64	ILL available	Guardians Accounts No. 3, 1777 - 1787, [1], unpaged index, 135(a) fo.
64	ILL available	Guardians Accounts No. 4, 1787 - 1795, Unpaged index, 1-132 fo., p. 133-146 (p. 143 & 144 missing)
64	ILL available	Guardians Accounts No. 5, 1795 - 1806 c, Unpaged index, [ca. 350 p.]
65	ILL available	Guardians Accounts No. 6, 1807 - 1818, Unpaged index, 253 p.
65	ILL available	Guardians Accounts No. 7, 1818 - 1823, Unpaged index, 267 p.
65	ILL available	Guardians Accounts No. 8, 1823-1827, Unpaged index, 286 p.
65	ILL available	Guardians Accounts No. 9, 1827 - 1833, Unpaged index, 377 [1] p.
68	ILL available	Guardians Bonds, 1814 - 1816, Unpaged index, 154 p.
68	ILL available	Guardians Bonds, 1816 - 1818, Unpaged index, 145 p.
68	ILL available	Guardians Bonds, 1818 - 1822, Unpaged index, 192 [1] p.
68	ILL available	Guardians Bonds, 1822 - 1825, Unpaged index, 141 p.
68	ILL available	Guardians Bonds, 1826 - 1829, [1], unpaged index, p. 22-196 p.
68	ILL available	Guardians Bonds, 1830 - 1835, Unpaged index, 198 p.
69	ILL available	Guardians Bonds, 1835 - 1840, Unpaged index, 230 p.
69	ILL available	Guardians Bonds, 1840 - 1845, Unpaged index, 134 p.
69	ILL available	Guardians Bonds, 1843 - 1850, Unpaged index, 164 p.
69	ILL available	Guardians Bonds, 1850 - 1861, Unpaged index, 287 p.
69	ILL available	Guardians Bonds, 1861 - 1884, Unpaged index, 288 p.
Reel No.		Free Negro and Slave Records
75	ILL available	Free Negro Register, 1830-1862
76	ILL available	List of Freed Negroes, 1864, pp. 24-33
Reel No.		Land Records
		Deed Subgroup
1	ILL available	Deed Book No. 1, 1691 - 1708 (Contains Wills), [xviii] index, unpaged duplicate index, [2] p., p. 2-528 (Film of original)
2	ILL available	Deed Book No. 1, Pt. 1, 1691 - 1708 (Contains Wills), Unpaged index, 500 p. (Film of transcript)
2	ILL available	Deed Book No. 1, Pt. 2, 1691 - 1708 (Contains Wills), Unpaged index, 491 p. (Film of transcript)
2	ILL available	Deed Book No. 2, 1708 - 1714 c (Contains Wills), [1], unpaged index, 246 p.
3	ILL available	Deeds and Wills, No. 3, Pt. 1, 1714 - 1724 c, [1], p. 1-198
3	ILL available	Deeds and Wills, No. 3, Pt. 2, 1714 - 1724 c, p. 199-400
3	ILL available	Deeds and Wills, No. 3, Pt. 3, 1714 - 1724 c, p. 401 - 572
4	ILL available	Deeds and Wills, No. 4, Pt. 1, 1724 - 1735 c, Unpaged index, followed by duplicate unpaged index, [1], p. 1-260
4	ILL available	Deeds and Wills, No. 4, Pt. 2, 1724 - 1735 c, p. 261 - 550
5	ILL available	Deed Book No. 5, 1735 - 1740 (Contains Wills), [1], unpaged index, 542 p. (Film of transcript)
6	ILL available	Deeds, Wills, Etc., 1740 - 1747, Pt. 1, Unpaged index, [1], p. 1-363 (Film of original)
6	ILL available	Deeds, Wills, Etc., 1740 - 1747, Pt. 2, p. 364-730 p. (Film of original)
5	ILL available	Deed Book No. 6, 1740 - 1747 (Contains Wills), Unpaged index, [1], 721 p. (Film of transcript)
7	ILL available	Deed Book No. 7, 1747 - 1755 (Contains Wills), [xxii] index, 714 p.
8	ILL available	Deed Book No. 8, 1755 - 1762 (Contains Wills), [xii] index, 706 p. (index repeated at end)
9	ILL available	Deed Book No. 9, 1762 - 1766 (Contains Wills), [xii] index, 706 p.
10	ILL available	Deed Book No. 10, 1767 - 1769 (Contains Wills), [xi] index, 475 p.
11	ILL available	Deed Book No. 11, 1769 - 1770 c (Contains Wills), Unpaged index, 167 p.
11	ILL available	Deed Book No. 12, 1770 - 1772 c (Contains Wills), Unpaged index, [545] p.
12	ILL available	Deed Book No. 13, 1772 - 1773 (Contains Wills), [xx] index, [xv] duplicate index, [557] p.
12	ILL available	Deed Book No. 14, 1773 - 1777 (Contains Wills), [xx] index, [vi] duplicate index, [556] p.
12	ILL available	Deed Book No. 15, 1777 - 1779 (Contains Wills), [xx] index, [1], partial duplicate index, [268] p.
13	ILL available	Deed Book No. 16, 1779 - 1780 c (Contains Wills), Unpaged index, [p. 1-140], (Deeds, Wills, etc., 1779 - 1780); [1] p., 61 fo. (Guardians Accounts, 1774 - 1777, which has title reading Orphans' Accounts, 1774 - 1777, follows p. 140)
14	ILL available	Deed Book No. 17, 1780 - 1782 c (Contains Wills), [188] p., [vii] index
15	ILL available	Deed Book No. 18, 1782 - 1783 c (Contains Wills), Unpaged index, [374] p.
16	ILL available	Deed Book No. 19, 1783 - 1785, [xii] index, [357] p.
16	ILL available	Deed Book No. 20, 1785 - 1788, [xii] index, [352] p.
16	ILL available	Deed Book No. 21, 1788 - 1790, [vii] index, [363] p., [2] items
16	ILL available	Deed Book No. 22, 1790 - 1792, [vii] index, [447] p.
17	ILL available	Deed Book No. 23, 1792 - 1795, [viii] index, [558] p.
17	ILL available	Deed Book No. 24, 1795 - 1798, [1], [viii] index, [537] p.
17	ILL available	Deed Book No. 25, 1798 - 1800, [ix] index, [552] p.
17	ILL available	Deed Book No. 26, 1801 - 1803, [ix] index, [539] p.
18	ILL available	Deed Book No. 27, 1804 - 1805 [1803 - 1805], [xx] index, [466] p.
18	ILL available	Deed Book No. 28, 1805 - 1807, [vii] index, [545] p.
19	ILL available	Deed Book No. 29, 1808 - 1809, [vii] index, [431] p.
19	ILL available	Deed Book No. 30, 1809 - 1812, [xiii] index, [547] p.
19	ILL available	Deed Book No. 31, 1812 - 1816, [1], [viii] index, [545] p.
20	ILL available	Deed Book No. 32, 1816 - 1819, [xxii] index, 486 p.
20	ILL available	Deed Book No. 33, 1819 - 1822, [xiv] index, 508 p.
21	ILL available	Deed Book No. 34, 1822 - 1825, [xxii] index, 492 p.
21	ILL available	Deed Book No. 35, 1825 - 1827, [xvii] index, 521 p.
22	ILL available	Deed Book No. 36, 1827 - 1831, [xxi] index, 608 p.
23	ILL available	Deed Book No. 37, 1831 - 1834, [xviii] index, 603 p.
24	ILL available	Deed Book No. 38, 1834 - 1836, [xxv] index, 585 p.
25	ILL available	Deed Book No. 39, 1837 - 1840, [xvii] index, 508 p.
25	ILL available	Deed Book No. 40, 1840 - 1843, [xx] index, 563 p.
26	ILL available	Deed Book No. 41, 1843 - 1844, [xxii] index, 434 p.
26	ILL available	Deed Book No. 42, 1844 - 1847, [xx] index, 500 p.
27	ILL available	Deed Book No. 43, 1847 - 1850, [xx] index, 622 p.
28	ILL available	Deed Book No. 44, 1851 - 1853, [xxi] index, 452 p.
29	ILL available	Deed Book No. 45, 1853 - 1856, [xxi] index, 614 p.
30	ILL available	Deed Book No. 46, 1856 - 1858, [xxii] index, 463 p.
30	ILL available	Deed Book No. 47, 1859 - 1865, [1], [xxi] index, 532 p.
33	ILL available	[Superior Court] Record Book, Deeds, Etc., 1812 - 1831, Unpaged index, 1-34 fo., 35-62 p.
	ILL not available	FOR PROCESSIONERS' RETURNS, 1796-1858 SEE MINUTE BOOK NO. 12, 1786-1787 (REEL 43)
31	ILL available	General Index to Deeds, No. 1, 1691 - 1798.
31	ILL available	General Index to Deeds, No. 2, 1798 - 1827.
32	ILL available	General Index to Deeds, No. 3, 1827 - 1856.
32	ILL available	General Index to Deeds, No. 4, 1856 - 1880.
76	ILL available	Loose Deed, 1900 (Napoleon B. Moore to Tully S. Dozier)
Reel No.		Marriage Records and Vital Statistics
53	ILL available	Certificates of Returns of Marriages, 1786 - 1850, 140 p.
53	ILL available	Index to Marriages (Whites), 1853 - 1939, Unpaged (typescript)
70	ILL available	Marriage Bonds, 1724-1786, No index
71	ILL available	Marriage Bonds, 1787-1792, No index
72	ILL available	Marriage Bonds, 1793-1798, No index
73	ILL available	Marriage Bonds, 1799-1821, No index
52	ILL available	Marriage Bonds, 1822 - 1827 c, [168] fo.
52	ILL available	Marriage Bonds, 1828 - 1836 c, 211 fo., [1] p.
52	ILL available	Marriage Bonds, 1836 - 1842 c, 157 fo., [1] p.
52	ILL available	Marriage Bonds, 1842 - 1850 c, 161 fo.
74	ILL not available	Marriage Register (Colored), Vol. 1, 1865 - 1953.
74	ILL not available	Marriage Register, (Colored), 1865 - 1970.
73	ILL available	Ministers' Returns, 1787-1821
54	ILL available	Register of Births, 1853 - 1870, 52 [6] fo.
54	ILL available	Register of Deaths, 1864 - 1870, 16 fo.
53	ILL available	Register of Marriages, 1853 - 1939, 181 [1] fo.
Reel No.		Military and Pension Records
75	ILL available	Index to Induction & Discharge Records I, 1940-1991 (WWII-Desert Storm)
54	ILL available	Muster Roll, 1861 - 1865, [2] p.
Reel No.		Organization Records
54	ILL available	Church Register of Princess Anne Circuit, 1828 - 1868, p. 3 (index), p. 4-284 [1]
Reel No.		Township Records
76	ILL available	Township Minute Book, 1870 - 1875, 28 p. (Seabord)
Reel No.		Wills
		Will Subgroup
	ILL not available	FOR EARLIER WILLS SEE LAND RECORDS
34	ILL available	Will Book No. 1, 1783 - 1794, [xxi] index, [272] p. (Film of typescript)
34	ILL available	Will Book No. 1, 1783 - 1794, Unpaged index, [ca. 300 p.] (Film of original)
35	ILL available	Will Book No. 2, 1795 - 1807, [iv] index, [544] p.
35	ILL available	Will Book No. 3, 1808 - 1824, [viii] index, [434] p.
35	ILL available	Will Book No. 4, 1824 - 1871, [xxvii] index, 493 [1] p. (2 pages of index repeated at end)
36	ILL available	[Superior Court] Record Book, Wills Etc., No. 1, 1831 - 1894, Unpaged index, 226 p.
37	ILL available	Index to Wills, No. 1, 1783 - 1941.
		Note: The page references to Will Books Nos. 1-3, found on Reels 34 & 35, are to the numerals appearing at the top of the pages; these, however, are document numbers and not page numbers. The numerals appearing at the bottom of the pages are not referred to in the General Index.
Reel No.		Miscellaneous Records
76	ILL available	Estray Book, 1878 - 1892, pp. 51-57
75	ILL available	Federal Farm Credit Lien Docket Book 1, 1937-1969, index, 47 p.
38	ILL available	List of Earmarks and Brands, 1691-1778

ILL indicates a copy is available for loan.