Old treasury warrants from the Virginia Land Office, 1779-1783

Access and use

Location of collection:
Library of Virginia
The Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Archives Reference Services
Phone: (804) 692-3888
Restrictions:

There are no restrictions.

Terms of access:

There are no restrictions.

Preferred citation:

Virginia. Land Office. Old treasury warrants from the Virginia Land Office, 1779-1783. Accession Land Office inventory entry no. 23, State government records collection, The Library of Virginia, Archives Branch, Richmond, VA 23219.

Summary

Creator:
Land Office. Virginia
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Virginia. Land Office. Old treasury warrants from the Virginia Land Office, 1779-1783. Accession Land Office inventory entry no. 23, State government records collection, The Library of Virginia, Archives Branch, Richmond, VA 23219.

Background

Scope and content:

These warrants were issued by the Register of the Land Office after notification by the auditor that the set fee had been paid into the commonwealth's treasury. The warrant then authorized any county surveyor to survey the number of acres specified for the individual named in the warrant. These records cover the period from 1779 Oct 15 to 1794 May 19; the bulk of the warrants are from between 1779 and 1783. The warrant numbers range between 174 and 23087.

These warrants were usually filed with the final survey to which they applied, but this set of warrants was kept separately. It is possible that these warrants were returned later than the related surveys and were never interfiled, or that they were returned for exchange because of an error. Many of the warrants include handwritten annotations on the back, in some instances indicating that the original holder of the warrant relinquished his claims to someone else or that a survey had been conducted.

Biographical / historical:

The act which established the previous Land Office passed the General Assembly on 22 June 1779. The register was the head of the Office and was appointed by joint ballot of both houses of the legislature.

Acquisition information:
Accession LOI 23 transferred by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1948.
Arrangement:

This collections is arranged numerically by warrant number, with unnumbered warrants arranged chronologically at the end of the collection.

Physical description:
.375 cu. ft (1 box)