Accomack County's seventeenth book of court orders begins with the court held on 1 November 1737, and ends on 25 September 1744. During this period twenty-seven different justices sat in almost two hundred sessions to settle disputes and render decisions

Accomack County's sixteenth book of court orders begins with the court held on 7 September 1731, and ends on 3 February 1736/37. During this period the justices determined the fates of fornicators, thieves, orphans and murderers. And the clerk, for the fi

Some women who lived on the Eastern Shore of Virginia were prone to bad behavior; others had bad things happen to them, but all of their stories are too good to leave buried in the old record books. During the 1600s and early 1700s, a wide range of circum

The twentieth volume of Accomack County, Virginia's court orders begins with the court held on the first of February 1764 and ends less than two years later at the end of October 1765. Except for September 1764, court was held for a few days every month with at least four, and sometimes as many as eight, justices in attendance. They dealt mainly with lawsuits concerning debt, but a variety of other issues confronted them as well. The court dealt with colonists from all levels of society. The introduction spotlights the more interesting, revealing or unfortunate incidents found among the court...