This site will serve as an online depository for digitally scanned courthouse records in Augusta County, VA. To make more of Augusta County’s significant historic records available in digital form online. This new portal is being updated by the Clerk’s Office Historic Records Assistant with records as they are formatted digitally.
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Vestry Book of Augusta Parish 1746-1776 Part 1: Pages 93-186
The Augusta County Vestry was the entity that presided over the communal fundraising and expenditure in the absence of an established town council or…
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The Confederacy Drafting of Enslaved and Free Black Persons to Work on Fortifications in Richmond Virginia 1862-1865
This collection includes letters and correspondence between members of the local government and the representatives of the Confederacy regarding the…
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Lists: "List of Free Negroes HH Peck Sheriff" January Term 1862
This document shows a list of the "Free Negroes" in Augusta County "between the ages of 18 & 50 years made out pursuant to an order of the county…
Lists: "List of Negroes Sent to Richmond" January 1862
This document shows the names of the enslaved persons who were sent to work on fortifications in Richmond in January of 1862. There are three columns,…
Lists: "Free Negroes in John Stover District" 1862
This document provides a list of the names of "Free Negroes" in a certain district within Augusta County. These individuals were pressed into working…