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This series consists of a collection of revolutionary war militia lists. These payroll lists generally include the name of the company and county, and record the names of the men in the militia, number of days in service and/or amount of pay, and may also include remarks. Militia lists for Henry County (List of recruits) and Loudoun County also record the soldiers' occupations, heights, and place of residence. Also includes commissioner's accounts, lists of recruits and lists of classes (with amount of tax).

Records, 1864-1890, including accounts and receipts of the Central State Hospital located in Richmond and later Petersburg, Virginia. The bulk of the records relate to the expenses for running and maintaining the hospital and inmates. Detailed are purchases of supplies for the hospital (glass, soap, coal, nails, locks, paint), clothing, food (eggs, coffee, peaches, beef, cabbage, peanuts, sugar, rice, cigars, potatoes, molasses, butter), transportation costs to jailers for bringing patients to the hospital, repairs to the building, purchases of furniture, and other sundry items. Also included are orders, 1864-1865, for funds from the Auditor of Public Accounts and a resolution, 1890, also drawing funds from the Auditor.

Records, 1800-1876, including accounts and receipts, lists of patients, pay patient fund accounts, reports, vouchers, and warrants of the Eastern State Hospital located in Williamsburg, Virginia. The bulk of the records relate to the expenses for running and maintaining the hospital and inmates. The accounts and receipts and vouchers, 1803-1876, detail purchases of materials (timber, rail, nails), food (beef, veal, sugar, molasses, butter), salaries of the keepers and doctors, hire of slaves, transportation costs to jailers for bringing patients to the hospital, clothing, repairs to the building, purchase of furniture, and other sundry items. Of note are the oversize pay rolls, 1871 June-November, for officers and employees, including name, job title, and salary. There is much overlap between the accounts and receipts and vouchers so researchers should check all folders for pertinent information.

Warrants, 1793-1806, 1818, paying officials supervising quarantines. Includes payments to the hiring of boats to lookout for fever from the West Indies, guards on vessels, payments for food, gun powder, and alcohol for guards on vessels, payments to doctors, hiring of vessels to act as hospitals for quarantined persons, building of coffins, printing of handbills concerning the quarantine laws, and salaries for superintendents of quarantine. Some documents are signed by Governors James Wood, John Page, and William H. Cabell.

This is an artificial collection of records concerning George Rogers Clark and the conquest of the Old Northwest during and after the revolutionary war. The records, which are now so intermingled they defy any attempt to separate them, were brought together from two distinct sets of records. The first set contained Clark's original accounts and vouchers, which had been submitted to the auditors of public accounts for settlement in 1779. These records were misplaced by the auditors and when the Board of Western Commissioners sought to settle his accounts in 1783, Clark produced a second set of records consisting of copies of the materials submitted in 1779, in addition to the records he had created since then. The Clark papers, then, consist of the misplaced records (since found) submitted to the auditor, as well as the vouchers submitted to the Board of Western Commissioners.

Western Expedition Quartermaster Records, 1778-1784, contain account books, receipt books, and vouchers detailing the expenses of supplying George Rogers Clark's forces in the Illinois Campaign and the Northwest Territory during the American Revolution. The volumes contain names, dates, and items purchased or received from sellers and from the commissaries at Fort Clark, Fort Patrick Henry, Fort Jefferson, Fort Nelson, and Fort St. Vincent. The volumes often include the names of the Quartermaster and/or D.C. of Issues, namely, Bland Ballard, William Bingeman, Zephaniah Blackford, Isaac Bowman, Martin Carney, Henry Croucher, Patrick Kennedy, John Marney, Jacob Pyeatt, William Shannon, Thomas Vickroy, and George Walls. Items purchased include alcohol, ammunition, axes, beef, coffee, clothing, corn, flour, kettles, rope, salt, sugar, tobacco, and other sundry items.

Records, 1859-1861, of the Auditor of Public Accounts Harpers Ferry Fund, arranged chronologically into five boxes. The collection mainly consists of accounts and receipts, but also interfiled is correspondence, payrolls, special requisitions, and warrants. The records document the expenses incurred by the militia, individuals, and businesses during John Brown's Raid and detail the Auditor of Public Accounts reimbursements. For an unknown reason some of the records have warrant numbers, while the earlier records do not (1859 October - 1860 February).

Records, 1859-1861, of the Auditor of Public Accounts Harpers Ferry Fund, arranged chronologically into five boxes. The collection mainly consists of accounts and receipts, but also interfiled is correspondence, payrolls, special requisitions, and warrants. The records document the expenses incurred by the militia, individuals, and businesses during John Brown's Raid and detail the Auditor of Public Accounts reimbursements. For an unknown reason some of the records have warrant numbers, while the earlier records do not (1859 October - 1860 February).

Pay vouchers, 1809-1823, 1851, authorizing the Auditor of Public Accounts to pay a court officer for his service during a particular term of the court. These are the copies sent by the court clerks to the auditor. Each voucher names a person or persons to whom money is owed and for what purpose the money is due. Includes payments to attorneys, clerks, jailers, prosecutors, and sheriffs. The vouchers were endorsed by a clerk in the auditor's office when they were paid.

Records, 1798-1869, including accounts, correspondence, receipts, vouchers, and warrants of the Virginia Penitentiary submitted to the Auditor of Public Accounts. The collection is arranged chronologically in nine boxes, with oversize materials arranged at the end. The bulk of the records relate to the purchase of food and supplies for prisoners, the building and expansion of the Penitentiary, and the sale of articles built by inmates.