Series II: Public Debt correspondence and accounts , 1775-1794, undated (APA 19) .

Containers:

Box 1-3

Extent:

Extent: 1.35 cu. ft. (3 boxes)

Scope and content:

Public Debt correspondence and accounts, 1780-1792, concerns funds received and expended during the revolutionary war.

Some specific items include: Accounts with Maj. James Quarles (1780); tax on militia / list of balances - Albemarle (1780); lists of justices, magistrates, commissioners of tax (specie, specific) and coroners for several counties (1781); account with paymaster of state troops (1781); lists of commissioners (1781); accounts with county lieutenants for recruitment of soldiers (1782); correspondence with John Carter regarding assessments (1782); House of Delegates resolution regarding the Solicitor General and his duties (1782); lists of arrearages due from Commissioners and Commissaries under the provision law and law imposing tax payable on certain commodities (1782); state of taxes that form the revenue of Virginia (1782); letters to the solicitor from Gov. Harrison regarding public debt (1783-1784) correspondence with the Governor and Council (1784); Lists of motions of recruiters and commissioners of revenue on behalf of the Commonwealth (1784); notice to instruct the Attorney General to move for judgment for balance of taxes due from sheriffs (1785); state of claims by foreign creditors, including Beaumarchais and Penet (1785-1793); general state of expenditures (1786); papers of John Webb, Paymaster General of the Navy (1781-1785); General Court - list of motions (1786, 1788); state of taxes from the revenue and memoranda respecting the auditor of public accounts (1786); lists of funds (1786, 1787); correspondence regarding settlement for cash advanced, supplies furnished and services rendered by the state of Virginia to the United States (1786); certification of military service for Larkin Lain (1787); lists of bonds for duties delivered by naval officers (1787, 1788, 1789); correspondence regarding qualifications, county lieutenants, and duties of the solicitor (1789); list of county lieutenants of the militia and command officers who have been excused for delinquencies (1789); lists of bonds payable for the sale of public vessels (1789); account of the commonwealth with notices (1789); letters regarding public debt (1789); lists of negroes belonging to the estate of John Linton, one of the inspectors at Dumphries Warehouse, sold under an execution of the Commonwealth (Commonwealth v. Linton, 1790).

Arrangement:

Arranged chronologically.

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