These articles tell stories of people, places, and events in and around Southampton County not found in the official records.

Most files were obtained from the Virginia Chronicle, a collection of Virginia newspapers archived at the Library of Virginia (LVA). Many Virginia newspapers have been digitized and converted to text using Optical Characterer Recognition (OCR) by the LVA and are included the Virginia Chronicle.

Even the best OCR technology is prone to transcription errors and the Virginia Chronicle is no exception. The files here have been further processed by the Southampton Transcription Project (STP) and transcription errors have been greatly reduced (hopefully to zero). That said, please report any errors you find to STP using the link below.

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