ALPHABETICAL ARRANGEMENT

The Notes in full text are assembled in series at the end of this Part.

The Alphabetical Arrangement needs no comment other than the statement that, in the several instances in which there are two counties of the same name (Accomack, Fayette, Jefferson, Madison, Mason, Mercer, Nelson and Rappahannock), the arrangement is chronological under each of these pairs of names. Of course, no two counties of the same name existed in Virginia at the same time, as will be seen below:

Accawmack of 1634 having been changed to Northampton in 1642/3,

Accomack of the present day was formed in 1663.*
Rappahannock of 1656** having become extinct in 1692, when its

territory was formed into Essex and Richmond, Rappahannock

of the present day was formed in 1833.
Fayette of 1780, Jefferson of 1780, Nelson of 1785, Madison of 1786,

Mercer of 1786 and Mason of 1789, all passed into the new
State, when Kentucky was admitted to the Union in 1792.

Virginia, ever-mindful of her ideals, again formed Madison of 1793, Jefferson of 1801, Mason of 1804, Nelson of 1808, Fayette of 1831 and Mercer of 1837; but the formation of West Virginia in 1863 carried all of these out of the jurisdiction of Virginia, except Madison and Nelson,—and thus it happens that, after twice honouring Jefferson, La Fayette, Mason and Mercer in this manner, the Old Dominion has at the present time no county of one of these names within her borders.

The following abbreviations are used in this part:
A.: Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, for the session indicated.
E. (superior): resulted from Virginia legislation, but now extinct, as

shown by accompanying limiting dates.
H.: Hening's “Statutes at Large”.
H. B.: “Journals of the House of Burgesses", 1619 to 1776 (Virginia

State Library : 1905-1915).
J.: "Journal of the House” (Burgesses or Delegates, as the case may

be) as interpreted in the note on the subject under the “General”

section of the Preface.
K. (superior): resulted from Virginia legislation, but now in Kentucky.
S.: Shepherd's “Statutes at Large" (continuation of Hening).
U. S.: “United States Statutes at Large".
W. (superior): resulted from Virginia legislation, but now in West

Virginia.