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These records include accounts and receipts for the maintenance of the Land Office, including such items as coal, parchment, printing, salaries, ink, and blank books, covering the period 1792-1795 and 1810-1812. Charles Lewis and Charles Blagrove served as registers of the Land Office during these periods and were involved in the accounts for the office maintenance.

Includes reports documenting the condition, records, and efficiency of the Land Office at various dates between 1747 and 1917. The reports were compiled by different sources, including the deputy auditor, registers, and various committees of the General Assembly.

These records contain copies of court records, separated from the files with which they belong, sent in to support claims; copies of documents from the Land Office prepared either for internal use or on request and not retrieved; and copies of documents predating the establishment of the Land Office in 1779. Included in the last category are General Court records, 1747-1772; Council records, 1743-1774; and county court orders certiying importation claims, 1750-1779. Total years covered are 1743; 1745; 1747-1748; 1750; 1753-1756; 1758; 1760; 1763-1765; 1770; 1772-1775; 1779; 1783-1787; 1790; 1793; 1795-1796; 1805-1806; 1810; 1817-1818; 1821; 1823-1825; 1827; 1829-1830; 1840; 1847; 1849; 1853-1854; 1860; 1864-1865; 1870-1871; 1875; 1879-1883; 1887; 1913

These records include drafts and copies of letters, most of which concern routine business affairs for which there is no incoming correspondence on file.

These records contain exchange warrants Nos. 2107-2114 are described on this list signed by Charles Blagrove. Columns list the individual to whom the exchange warrant was issued, his place of residence, the number of the warrant given in exchange, the acreage, and the description of the warrant exchange which includes to whom it was issued, on what right, the warrant number, the acreage, and the date. Item covers the period from 1810 Feb 1 to 1810 Aug 1.

These records contain columns giving the name of the soldier, the number of acres to which he was entitled, his rank, his length of service, the date of this certificate, and at times in a column for remarks, the number of the warrant and the name of the warrantee. The list was signed on November 12, 1818, by Thomas Miller, clerk. The soldiers noted on the list include John Walden, William Poe, William Davis, John Davis, John Casy, John Story, William Cardwell, Shadrick Pierson, Berryman Brown, Robert Powell, Thomas Bates, Peter Cockrell, Thomas Sneed, John Brownley, Henry Brown, John Smith, Thomas Smith, Lewis Powers, Thomas Gains, and Charles Nial.

Includes volume noting requests be made by members of the General Assembly for searches of Land Office records. Also contains a list of grants which were handed to members of the legislature for delivery to individuals in their home districts. Volume covers the period from 1822 Dec 3 to 1826 Mar 29.

These records contain printed forms for treasury warrants from the state Librarian and treasury warrants and land grants from the secretary of the commonwealth which were never issued. The forms grant permission to the recipient to survey and lay off land.

These records contain copies of wills that were included as supplemental papers in several series of Land Office records but removed from the records and set up as a separate series. There are no cross references to the specific series from which the wills were removed. The wills are dated between 1656 and 1868; in many cases the copies were made significantly later than the original wills.