In the Henry County Court records I come across another avenue or level of jurisdiction in early Virginia that I don't really understand. A man who had served on the county court of both Pittsylvania and Henry County and then served as the second sheriff of Henry County for two years. Upon his leaving the sheriff's office in February of 1782 he was administered the "the oath of a Justice of Peace, the oath of Justice in Chancery and Oath of a Justice of Oyer and Terminer." Yet within the records I have looked at only occasionally it there mention of even the Justice of the Peace doing things like making a tithable list. I haven't send even seen a hint of a Court of Chancery or anything except the title for the Oyer and Terminer. Were these functioning positions or just empty holdovers from the English. The county court system was also a hold over, but it was a working entity and continued for many years. Larry