Joann Riley McKey

Accomack County, Virginia Court Order Abstracts, Volume 3: 1671-1673 Joann Riley McKey

About 2,000 individuals--Indians, African Americans, indentured servants, planters and commissioners--are named in these abstracts. Besides providing a wealth of names for researchers to work with, the court orders reveal valuable--and often entertaining--information concerning the region's economy, relations between different segments of the population, construction of highways, the justice system, social order and mores. Also included, as recorded in the court books, are tax lists and abstracts of wills and deeds. A page-number reference to the original source accompanies each abstract; and an everyname plus subject index guides users through this goldmine of data.