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Official Records - County Records - Richmond County
Richmond County, on Virginia's Northern Neck between the Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers, was formed in 1692. A tidewater county, it was home to a large slave population, amounting to 57 percent of the total in the 1790 census. Richmond County's more prominent residents included Virginia leaders such as Landon Carter of Sabine Hall and John Tayloe of Mt. Airy. Excerpts from its order books below show the activities of Richmond's justices as well as their relations with neighboring counties such as Essex across the Rappahannock River.
Records for 1774
Two slaves convicted of "a great misdemeanor."
Peter and Stafford, property of Moore Fauntleroy, are convicted of an unspecified crime, November 1774.
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