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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.

Slaves removed from tithe lists, May 1782.
Colonel John Tayloe was one of the wealthiest men of Richmond County. He died in 1779.

A mulatto servant petitions for her freedom, Jun 1782.
Illegitimate offspring of black and white unions were bound to service until the age of thirty one if their mothers were wite or Indian.

County levy, 1782.
A complete county budget. Values in pounds of tobacco.