This database contains nearly 29,000 County Court civil and criminal warrants, ranging from about 1856 to 1930. The range of causes of action is quite broad. Many matters addressed today in "family" courts are included, such as divorce and bastardy. Crimes range from simple things, such as wearing a mask, to capital crimes, such as murder and rape.
The warrants were indexed by volunteers whose names were not identified in a spreadsheet that was previously published on-line. This spreadsheet was found in an Internet Archive, and the data were converted for presentation on this site. No copyright infringement is intended.
This Web site is not responsible for the data entry. However, several obvious errors were corrected. If you discover errors, please advise so we can update the datafile. Click the Contact Us link on this page. Please be sure to identify the source (this database) when you send details.
Research Tip: The source documents are subject to extreme vagaries in name spelling. Also, court clerks and officials used a plethora of abbreviations. For that reason, you should be very creative in your searching.
A note about Black individuals in the database: Many individuals are identified as "Free Colored," even after Emancipation. There is no explanation for this usage in the records.
Please enter at least the surname of either the Plaintiff, Defendant, Others Named -- or any combination of the three. Considering spelling variations, you may want to enter just the first 4 or 5 letters of a surname initially.
You may narrow your search by including a record year or a given name. Please note that many records contain only initials, rather than complete given names. If you find a record of interest, consider doing a page number search (with no names) to see what other names are included in the record.
Suggestion: When searching for dates, you can't use a range. However, you can enter just the digits for a decade (ex: 186 would be for the 1860's).
Important! Regardless of the number of matches (hits) that may result from your search, you will only be able to view the first 100 records returned by the system. This was done to circumvent harvesting by unscrupulous individuals.