Fayette County Court

Scope and Contents Originals and copies of county and circuit court suit papers, mainly for the period after 1870. The volumes include a minute book of the Fayetteville town council, 1873-1877; county board of education minute book, 1866-1876; a land entry book, 1831-1837; land tax books, 1849, 1855-1860; personal property books, 1855-1858, 1860-1861, 1866; registers of voters, 1866, 1867; poll books, 1872, 1890; and private account books, including a G.P. Huddleston daybook for a general store, 1850-1858; and...

Overview

Photostat negative of page 246 in Minute Book of the Fayette County Court. The court appropriates and arranges to borrow $5,000 for defense of the county in accordance with an act of the Virginia legislature, inasmuch as the ". . . State has been invaded by a hostile army of Northern Fanatics, and we feel bound to resist said invasion to the last extremity. . . . ".