Jersey City Library Returns Spoils of Civil War, a 220-Year-Old Book of Court Records, to Virginia County
Nearly 150 years after a Union Army captain pilfered a book of court records from a county courthouse in Virginia during the Civil War, the Jersey City Free Public Library has returned the 220-year-old spoil of war to its rightful home.The leather-bound book has a broken binder and the pages are yellowed, but the exhibits the flawless penmanship of John Fox, a Stafford County deputy court clerk who in 1791 was given the task of transcribing summarized court records covering 1749 to 1755.
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