"This transcription was created because there is no existence known of an 1890 Bland County, Virginia census." -- P. 1.

For these cases the Circuit Court sat in chancery which meant it acted as a court of equity. Equity law is a body of legal and procedural rules and doctrines which supplement or override common and statute law to protect the rights and enforce duties defined or fixed by substantive law. The court usually dealt with cases which did not need a jury, such as divorces or foreclosures.

Church records for both the Sharon Lutheran and Sharon Presbyterian churches in Ceres, Virginia.

Bland was a mining town in Cochiti Mountains, thirty miles west of Santa Fe, and now is a ghost town.