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Circuit Court of the District of Columbia: Records and Bibliography, 1801-1863

Official Records

The records of the Washington County term of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia are included among Record Group 21 at the:     

    National Archives at Washington, D.C.
    700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
    Washington, DC 20408-0001

    General email inquiry address: http://www.archives.gov/contact/inquire-form.html

A published description of the records is 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).

The records of the Alexandria County term of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia are held at:     

    The Library of Virginia
    800 East Broad Street
    Richmond, VA 23219

    General email inquiry address: http://www.lva.virginia.gov/about/contact.asp

Bibliography

Morris, Jeffrey Brandon. Calmly to Poise the Scales of Justice: A History of the Courts of the District of Columbia Circuit. Published for the Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2001.

 

 

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