Essex County Virginia General Index to Deeds No. 1 1797-1867 Deed Books 35 to 51

<p>The purpose of this work is to present a single alphabetical index based on the General Index to Deeds No. 1 1797-1867 that was created in the style known as a Campbell Index. In other words the purpose here is not to validate the index but to resequence it. What typically results from a Campbell Index is a jumble that requires users to flip back and forth between groups of pages throughout the entire index to seek out where various groups are continued elsewhere.</p><p>This present index is largely made up of entries to over 7000 deeds being either: bargain and sales bills of sale or trust deeds. Of additional interest may be: thirty-eight polls for the election of various officials; twenty-two apprenticeships; a bastard bond; thirty-six emancipation or manumission deeds; forty-one insolvents; forty-six marriage contracts or settlements; sixteen bonds for ministers to solemnize the rites of matrimony; bonds for sheriff constable tobacco inspector or Commissioner of the Revenue; references to military service; or other non-routine items.</p><p>Some deficiencies in the original index have been addressed here. As a result over 1500 additional index entries were added by the compiler over the original courthouse index. References to plats that did not appear in the original index have been added.</p><p><br></p><p>2022 8½x11 paper alphabetical 354 pp.</p>