CHAP. XI. An Act for dividing the County of Henrico into two distinct counties.* [Passed May 1, 1749.] FOR the Ease and convenience of the Inhabitants of the County of Henrico in attending Courts and other public Meetings Be it Enacted by the Lieutenant Governor Council and Burgesses of this present General Assembly and it is hereby enacted by the Authority of the same That from and immediately after the twenty fifth day of May next ensuing the said County of Henrico be divided into two Counties that is to say all that Part of the said County of Henrico lying on the south side of James River shall be one distinct County and called by the Name of Chesterfield County and all that other part of the said County of Henrico on the north side of James River aforesaid shall be one other distinct County and retain the Name of Henrico AND that for the due Administration of Justice after the said twenty-fifth day of May a Court for the said County of Chesterfield be constantly held by the Justices thereof upon the first Friday and a Court for the said County of Henrico be constantly held by the Justices thereof upon the first Monday in every Month in such Manner as by the Laws of this Colony is provided and shall be by their Commissions directed PROVIDED alway that nothing herein contained shall be construed to hinder the Sherif or Collector of the said County of Henrico as the same now stands intire and undivided to make Distress for any Levies Fees or Dues which shall be due from the said County of Chesterfield after the said twenty fifth day of May in such Manner and not otherwise as by Law he might have done if this Act had never been made any Law Custom or Usage to the Contrary thereof notwithstanding. April 27. 1749 Read the third time & passed the House of Burgesses. May 1. 1749. Read the third time & agreed to by the Council. William Randolph C. Н. В. [Endorsed:] N. Walthoe C. G. A. Virginia. At a General Assembly begun and held at the College in Williamsburg on Thursday the Twenty seventh day of October in the Twenty second year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c. and in the year of our Lord 1748. Numr 27. An Act for dividing the County of Henrico into two distinct Counties. Passed ye 11th of May 1749. Recd with Colo Lee's Letter dated ye 6th Novr 1749. Recd March ye 19th 1749/50. Reed back Febry ye 8th 1750/1. Exd 27. C. O. Class 5. Vol. 1395. No Objection Great Seal of Virga taken off pr. S. G. PART VII. BIBLIOGRAPHY This bibliography in a way follows the plan of the preface as a whole, in that there is a "general" group, which contains the various official Virginia collections of information touching all the counties in a greater or less degree, while there are grouped under the name of each of the counties such additional titles as the Library contains (as of October 1, 1915) which relate to that particular county, these county-groups being based directly upon Assistant State Librarian Earl G. Swem's "Bibliography of Virginia, Part I" (Virginia State Library Bulletin, vol. 8, Nos. 2, 3, 4April, July, October, 1915), to which acknowledgment is hereby gratefully made, and to which the student is referred for fuller and more detailed data than are here given. As the Library does not contain separate histories of all the counties resulting from Virginia legislation, which are now in other jurisdictions, there have been utilized in those cases such available histories of Kentucky and West Virginia as seem to contain the desired information, although bearing the titles of state histories; and in the case of Yohogania County recourse has been had to a history of Westmoreland County in western Pennsylvania. In the titles given under the various counties it has been thought proper to include printed speeches and addresses delivered before audiences in those counties-if in any case such information is conveyed on the title pagebooks, pamphlets, etc., whose title pages connect their authors with these counties in any way, and in some cases the biographies of natives of the counties. The effort has not been made, however, to collect in the case of any county a full list of the biographies in which information in reference to that county may be found. Such biographies, it is hardly necessary to say, frequently contain a large amount of valuable information for the worker in local history. One cannot but be struck by the fact that there are at least fourteen counties in the present State of Virginia for which not a single separate title is now available in the Library; and it is hoped that this presentation of the paucity of such material will stimulate others to add to this all-toomeagre collection. The bibliography follows: GENERAL: Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, 1776 to 1879-'80. Howe's Historical Collections of Virginia-several editions, the first of * Bland, Buchanan, Carroll, Craig, Dickenson, Floyd, Giles, Greene, Lee, Nelson, Patrick, Pulaski, Rappahannock (1833) and Russell. Journals of the House of Burgesses, 1619 to 1776 (Virginia State Li- Journals of the House of Delegates, 1776 to 1879-'80. Shepherd's Statutes at Large (continuation of Hening), vols. i to iii. ginia, 1776 to 1910 (Richmond: 1911). • ACCOMACK:* Brent, Frank Pierce. Some unpublished facts, relating to Bacon's rebellion on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, gleaned from the court records of Accomac County. A paper read before the Virginia historical society, Tuesday, December 22, 1891, by Professor Frank P. Brent (In Virginia historical society. Collections. Richmond, 1892. new series, v. 11) Eckenrode, Hamilton James. A calendar of legislative petitions, arranged by counties: Accomac-Bedford. Special report of the Department of archives and history, H. J. Eckenrode, archivist. Richmond, D. Bottom, supt. of public printing, 1908. (In Virginia state library. 5th report, 1908) Joynes, Levin Smith. A sketch of the life of Thomas R. Joynes, of Accomack, Virginia; with a brief notice of his father, Col. Levin Joynes. By Levin S. Joynes, M. D. [n. p.) 1876. 38 р. McMaster, John Stephenson. Makemieland. An address delivered May 14, 1908, at the unveiling, etc., of the monument at Holden's Creek, Accomack County, Virginia to the Rev. Francis Makemie, founder of the organized Presbyterian church in America. By John Sterenson McMaster. [1908] 16 p. plate (port.) [Scarburgh, George P.] An address to the people of the county of Accomac, [upon the subject of the division of the Methodist Episcopal church] 29 р. Signed by George P. Scarburgh and 15 others. Segar, Joseph E. To the voters of Accomac and Northampton. n. p. [1863] 3 р. Virginia historical society. Collections of the Virginia historical society. New series. v. 11. Virginia magazine of history and biography. v. 5, 19. William and Mary college quarterly historical magazine. v. 7, 18. * Covers both old (1634 to 1642/3) and new (1663) Accomack. Williamson, Robert. A brief history of the origin and progress of the Baptists on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, embracing an account of the Accomack association and sketches of the churches. By Rev. Robert Williamson. Baltimore, J. F. Weishampel, jr., 1878. 91 [4] p. Wise, Barton Haxall. Memoir of General John Cropper of Accomack County, Virginia. Wise, Jennings Cropper. Ye kingdome of Accawmacke; or The eastern shore of Virginia in the seventeenth century, by Jennings CropRichmond, Va., The Bell book and stationery co., per Wise х, 406 р. ALBEMARLE: Bloomfield academy, Albemarle county, Va. Catalog. Library has 1859. Bushnell, David I., jr. "The Indian grave" a Monacan site in Albemarle 7 р. Davidson brothers. In the Supreme court of appeals. County of Albemarle & board of education versus the Davidson bros.; S. Miller's ex'or & others. Appeal from decrees of Circuit court of Richmond. Views of counsel for the Davidsons. [no place. no date] 92, 34 р. Eckenrode, Hamilton James. A calendar of legislative petitions arranged by counties: Accomac-Bedford. Special report of the Department of archives and history, H. J. Eckenrode, archivist. Richmond, D. Bottom, supt. of public printing, 1908. 302 р. (in Virginia state library. 5th report, 1908) Holcombe, James Philemon. The election of a Black Republican presi- 16 р. In memory of Col. James Monroe, died September 7, 1870, aged 71 Col. Monroe was born in Albemarle county, Va., Sept. 10, 1799. Nicholas, Wilson Cary. To the electors of the congressional district, composed of the counties of Amherst, Albemarle and Fluvanna. [no date] 20 р. Rives, Alexander. Speech of Alexander Rives of Albemarle, on the finances and public works of the state of Virginia, delivered 30th April, 1852, in the House of delegates, in committee of the whole on the license bill. Richmond, Va., Elliott & Nye, printers, [1852] 17 р. Seamon, W. H. Albemarle county, Virginia. A handbook giving a description of its topography, climate, geology, minerals, fruits, plants, history, educational, agricultural and manufacturing advantages, and inducements the county offers the industrious and intelligent farmer and manufacturer. Edited by W. H. Seamon, Crozet, Va., Professor of analytical chemistry, School of mines, University of Missouri; late Instructor in chemistry and natural history, Miller manual labor school. Published by Wm. H. Prout, Charlottesville. Charlottesville, Va., Jeffersonian book and job printing house, 1888. 110 p. illus. Washburne, E. B. Sketch of Edward Coles, second governor of Illinois, and of the slavery struggle of 1823-4. Prepared for the Chicago historical society, by E. B. Washburne. Chicago, Jansen, McClurg & co., 1882. 253 р. front. Gov. Coles was born in Albemarle Co., Va., Dec. 15, 1786. William and Mary college quarterly historical magazine. v. 9. Woods, Edgar. Albemarle County in Virginia: giving some account of what it was by nature, of what it was made by man, and of some of the men who made it. [Charlottesville, Va., The Michie co., 1901] iv, 412 p. Woolfolk, C. W. Directory of the counties of Orange, Louisa, Albemarle, Culpeper and Spotsylvania. Comp. and for sale by C. W. Woolfolk, Orange, Va., W. J. Daniel, Bibb's, Va. 1895. [Richmond, Va., Ware & Duke, general printers, 1895] 1, 267 р. ALEXANDRIA: Alexandria Co., Va. Board of supervisors. A brief history of Alexandria County, Virginia; its wealth and resources, great and growing industries, educational and social advantages Pub. under authority of the county Board of supervisors by C. G. Boteler, Crandal Mackey, M. E. Church, W. S. Hoge, jr., C. B. Haller, committee. Falls Church, Va., The Newell printing co. [1907] 2 p. 1., [9]-56 p. illus., fold. map. |