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Fauquier County, Virginia�s Clerk�s Loose Papers: A Guide to the Records, 1759 - 1919Fauquier County, Virginia�s Clerk�s Loose Papers: A Guide to the Records, 1759 - 1919. Joan W. Peters. Winner of the 2002 National Genealogical Society award winner for writing excellence in genealogical methods and sources. Loose papers, filed during a Clerk of Court�s term, can pertain to almost anything or anyone that dealt with the Court. Included are sheriff and constable bonds, chancery records, debts to merchant and other lenders, criminal causes for theft, arson, burglary, murder, and malicious wounding. They include records dealing with free negroes and slaves, apprenticeships, land disputes and coroner�s inquests. All material rich in genealogical information. 2001, 8� x 11, illus, 218 pp.,
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