Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Virginia, Overwharton Parish Register, 1720 to 1760: Old Stafford County
This law was changed October, 1705, requiring 800 tithable persons necessary to erect a new County on the frontier. Stafiord Court House was first built at Marl boro, on the Potomac, afterwards moved about 100 yards from the site of the present Court House, which was built in 1783 - material, brick covered with stucco of mortar; main building 20x40, with a T wing 20x30; two acres of land for Court House and Prison deeded in 1783 by William Gerrard and William Fitzhugh. The number of voters in the County in 1899 was 1725; 1400 white and 325 colored. Population of the village of Stafford Court House is 25, all white.
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