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
		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.
		Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery
50	ILL available	Chancery Order Book No. 1, 1831 - 1858, Unpaged index, 355 p.
		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
		Additional Records
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.
Reel No.		Fiduciary Records
55	ILL available	Audit Book No. 1, 1783 - 1792, Unpaged index, [ca. 500 p.]
55	ILL available	Audit Book No. 2, 1792 - 1798, Unpaged index, [ca. 500 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.
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.
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.
64	ILL available	Guardians Accounts No. 1, 1736 - 1773 c, Unpaged index, 138 fo.
	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. 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.
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.
	ILL not available	FOR GUARDIANS ACCOUNTS NO. 13 SEE AUDIT BOOK NO. 20, 1850-1853 (REEL 63)
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]
69	ILL available	Guardians Bonds, 1850 - 1861, Unpaged index, 287 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, 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.
		Additional Records
	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)
33	ILL available	[Superior Court] Record Book, Deeds, Etc., 1812 - 1831, Unpaged index, 1-34 fo., 35-62 p.
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), 1865 - 1970.
74	ILL not available	Marriage Register (Colored), Vol. 1, 1865 - 1953.
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.		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
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
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)
	ILL not available	FOR EARLIER WILLS SEE LAND RECORDS
		Additional Records
37	ILL available	Index to Wills, No. 1, 1783 - 1941.
36	ILL available	[Superior Court] Record Book, Wills Etc., No. 1, 1831 - 1894, Unpaged index, 226 p.
		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.

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