Little River Turnpike Company: agent, accounts and correspondence, 1808-1827

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Location of collection:
Library of Virginia
The Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219
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POC: Archives Reference Services
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Preferred citation:

Auditor of Public Accounts, Little River Turnpike Company: agent, accounts and correspondence, 1808-1827. Accession APA 734. State government records collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Summary

Extent:
1 Folder (16 items)
Creator:
Auditor of Public Accounts
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Auditor of Public Accounts, Little River Turnpike Company: agent, accounts and correspondence, 1808-1827. Accession APA 734. State government records collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

These records are part of Auditor of Public Accounts. Disbursements to Localities and Individuals: Local Government Expenses - Militia. This series consists of letters and accounts dated 1808, 1823-1824, 1827, n.d. of Thomas Fouch, agent of the Little River Turnpike Company, which resulted in litigation with the commonwealth.

Biographical / historical:

On January 28, 1805 the General Assembly passed an act authorizing the purchase of one hundred shares of Little River Turnpike Company stock by the state. In Loudoun County and certain other counties muster fines due before December 15, 1810, except the amount appropriated for payment of militia expenses, were deposited in a fund to pay for the state's shares of stock. Agents of the Little River Turnpike Company were authorized to collect the muster fines from county sheriffs. If a sheriff failed to pay an agent, the agent started legal proceedings against the sheriff in the county court. In 1811 the General Assembly extended the act for five years.

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Arrangement:

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