Two original court order books are included in this book of abstracts, with Volume 26 (2 January 1773 to 3 December 1773) beginning on page one and with Volume 27 (25 January 1774 to 29 April 1777) beginning on page 75; together their 854 handwritten pages span four years and four months of debts, misdeeds and legal issues in Accomack County, Virginia, as the colonial period drew to a close. Except for justices Thomas Parramore and Andrew Newton, who both died in 1774, all the court justices mentioned in these records were commissioned on 25 April 1775, when the Governor dispatched to...