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U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Virginia: Records and Bibliography

Official Records

The records of the U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Virginia are included among Record Group 21 at the:

National Archives at Philadelphia
900 Market Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107-4292

Email: philadelphia.archives@nara.gov

A guide to the holdings of the regional archives is available at: https://www.archives.gov/philadelphia/finding-aids

A published description of the records is also available in the Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States, 1995 (http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/index.html ).

Bibliography

Fish, Peter Graham. Federal Justice in the Mid-Atlantic South: United States Courts from Maryland to the Carolinas, 1789-1835. Washington, D.C.: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, 2002.

_______. Federal Justice in the Mid-Atlantic South: United States Courts from Maryland to the Carolinas, 1836-1861. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2015.

Peters, John O. From Marshall to Moussaoui: Federal Justice in the Eastern District of Virginia. Petersburg, Va.: Dietz Press, 2013.

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