Excerpt from Memorials of Old Virginia Clerks: Arranged Alphabetically by Counties, With Complete Index of Names, and Dates of Service From 1634 to the Present Time There will be found in this volume the names and dates of service, of more than eight hundred clerks, who have held office in every county in the State of Virginia, going back to the year 1634, when the colony of the Old Dominion was divided into eight counties or shires, then named respectively, Charles City, Elizabeth City, Henrico, Isle of Wight, James City, Northampton, Warwick and York. From these have been formed all the counties in the State at different times, which will appear in alphabetical order, each county showing the date of its formation, from what county or counties formed, and the names and dates of service of the clerks from the beginning, so far as they can now be procured. Owing to the fact that a considerable number of the clerk's offices and public records have been destroyed by fire and otherwise, some of these lists are necessarily defective; but a sufficient number have been obtained to make a valuable contribution to the early and later history of the State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.