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<titleproper>A Guide to the Virginia Auditor of Public Accounts - Commissioner for Commonwealth to Settle Claims with the United States Records, <date>1777-1795</date>
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<subtitle id="sort">Virginia Auditor of Public Accounts - Commissioner for Commonwealth to Settle Claims with the United States Records
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<titleproper>A Guide to the Virginia Auditor of Public Accounts - Commissioner for Commonwealth to Settle Claims with the United States Records, <date>1777-1795</date>
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<subtitle>A Collection in <lb/>the Library of Virginia
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<head>Descriptive Summary
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<unittitle label="Title" encodinganalog="245$a">A Guide to the Virginia Auditor of Public Accounts - Commissioner for Commonwealth to Settle Claims with the United States Records, 
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<head>Administrative Information
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<p>Virginia. Auditor of Public Accounts (1776-1928). Commissioner for Commonwealth to Settle Claims with the United States Records, 1777-1795. Accession APA 200, State government records collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
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<head>Acquisition Information
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<p>Transferred from the Auditor of Public Accounts in 1913. Includes Accession 76 and Accession 13648 (March and October 1913).
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<head>Biographical Information
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<p>The Virginia Commission to Settle Accounts Between the State and the United States for Claims Arising from the Revolutionary War was established by the General Assembly during its session begun in May 1782. Colonel William Davies (1749-1805) was appointed commissioner for Virginia soon thereafter; he closed the Richmond office and moved to Philadelphia in 1789 and then to New York City. By 1794 the claims had been submitted to the United States for settlement. Under Davis' zealous guardianship, Virginia emerged with the largest credit of any state for wartime expenditures. In 1800 Davies was appointed collector of the customs for Norfolk and Portsmouth by President John Adams.
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<p>Commissioner for Commonwealth to Settle Claims with the United States Records, 1777-1795, are housed in two boxes and arranged alphabetically into two series. Series have been designated for Series I: Commissioner Records and Series II: Ledgers, Lists of Supplies Issued. Included are accounts, correspondence, ledgers, and vouchers relating to the Virginia Commission to Settle Claims with the United States arising from the Revolutionary War. 
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<p>This collection is arranged in the following series:</p>
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<item>Series I: Commissioner Records, 1781-1795 (bulk 1788-1793)</item>
<item>Series II: Ledgers, Lists of Supplies Issued, 1777-1791 (bulk 1777-1780)</item>
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<unittitle><emph render="bold">Series I: Commissioners Records</emph>, 
<unitdate type="inclusive"><emph render="bold">1781-1795 (bulk 1788-1793)</emph></unitdate>.</unittitle>
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<physdesc><extent>Extent: .30 cu. ft. (1/2 box).</extent>
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<p>The Commissioners Records, 1781-1795 (bulk 1788-1793), include accounts, correspondence, memorandum book, and vouchers relating to expenses occurred by Colonel William Davies as commissioner. Included are accounts and vouchers for his salary; purchases of office supplies such as postage, paper and quills; travel and moving expenses to New York and Pennsylvania; pay for office attendants; and rent, among other expenses. Some of the accounts are signed by Virginia Governor Beverley Randolph (1788-1791) and Henry Lee (1791-1794). The correspondence, 1784-1795, include orders from Governor Beverley Randolph and also relate to the payment of Davies' accounts. Also included is a letter, 21 June 1784, to Thomas Smith, instructing him to examine the accounts of expenditures from September 1775 to January 1781 with the Commissioner of Congress and to create a list of charges against the Continent. Possibly this has to do with Virginia's cession of the Northwest Territory or relate to the reimbursement due Virginia for expenses in providing defense of the frontier. </p>
<p>Of note is the Commissioner's Memorandum book, 1787 May, a partial journal of commissioners John Pierce, William Heth, and David Henley. Heth and Henley were appointed by the Virginia government to join John Pierce, the United States commissioner of army accounts, to determine the amount of reimbursement due Virginia for expenses in providing defense of the frontier from the British and Indians during the Revolutionary War. Included are the commissioners opinions on the subject in written statements and replies. Also of note is an undated list of queries and answers proposed by Lewis Pintard (1732-1818) of New Jersey and Daniel De Saussure of Maryland, Commissioners for liquidating the state accounts with the United States. Also included is a subsistence warrant, 8 May 1781, for monies due Captain William Scott, commander in the British 17th Regiment of Foot. This warrant was to reimburse him for monies he paid to British prisoners at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p>
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<p>Arranged alphabetically by folder title.
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	<unittitle>Accounts and vouchers, 
	<unitdate type="inclusive">1788</unitdate>.</unittitle>
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	<unittitle>Accounts and vouchers, 
	<unitdate type="inclusive">1789</unitdate>.</unittitle>
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	<container label="Folder" type="folder">2
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<c02 level="file">
	<did>
	<unittitle>Accounts and vouchers, 
	<unitdate type="inclusive">1790</unitdate>.</unittitle>
	<container label="Box" type="box">1
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	<container label="Folder" type="folder">3
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<c02 level="file">
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	<unittitle>Accounts and vouchers, 
	<unitdate type="inclusive">1791</unitdate>.</unittitle>
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	<container label="Folder" type="folder">4
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<c02 level="file">
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	<unittitle>Accounts and vouchers, 
	<unitdate type="inclusive">1792</unitdate>.</unittitle>
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	<container label="Folder" type="folder">5
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	<unittitle>Accounts and vouchers, 
	<unitdate type="inclusive">1793-1795</unitdate>.</unittitle>
	<container label="Box" type="box">1
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	<container label="Folder" type="folder">6
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	<unittitle>Accounts and vouchers, 
	<unitdate type="inclusive">nd</unitdate>.</unittitle>
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	<container label="Folder" type="folder">7
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	<unittitle>Account book, 
	<unitdate type="inclusive">1789 October-1793 July</unitdate>.</unittitle>
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	<unittitle>Commissioner's Memorandum book, 
	<unitdate type="inclusive">1787 May</unitdate>.</unittitle>
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	<unittitle>Correspondence, 
	<unitdate type="inclusive">1784-1795</unitdate>.</unittitle>
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	<unittitle>Queries and answers regarding the settlement of debt, 
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	<unittitle>Subsistence claim of Captain William Scott, 
	<unitdate type="inclusive">1781</unitdate>.</unittitle>
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	<container label="Folder" type="folder">12
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<unittitle><emph render="bold">Series II: Ledgers, Lists of Supplies Issued,</emph>, 
<unitdate type="inclusive"><emph render="bold">1777-1791 (bulk 1777-1780)</emph></unitdate>.</unittitle>
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<p>The Lists of Supplies Issued Ledgers, 1777-1791 (bulk, 1777-1780), consists of twelve volumes covering Bath Town, Chesterfield Court House, Fredericksburg, Hanover Town, Manchester (Richmond), Petersburg, Portsmouth, Winchester, and York, Virginia. The ledgers are titled, "The State of Virginia against the United States for disbursements and supplies to the Army during the late war." The ledgers list supplies such as candles, flour, bacon, mutton, vinegar, bread, soap, rum, and day rations provided various Virginia regiments (and some North Carolina regiments) from Virginia supply depots during the Revolutionary War. Listed is the amount of supplies, date, name of who ordered the supplies, and which company received the supplies. Assumably these ledgers were used to obtain reiumbursement from the United States government.
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<p>Arranged numerically by ledger number.
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	<unittitle>Ledger No. 1, List of supplies Issued York and Portsmouth (Va.), 
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	<unittitle>Ledger No. 2, List of supplies Issued York, Portsmouth, and Chesterfield Court House (Va.), 
	<unitdate type="inclusive">1777-1780</unitdate>.</unittitle>
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	<container label="Folder" type="folder">14
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	<unittitle>Ledger No. 7, List of supplies Issued Fredericksburg Station (Va.), 
	<unitdate type="inclusive">1779-1780</unitdate>.</unittitle>
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	<container label="Folder" type="folder">15
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	<unittitle>Ledger No. 9, List of supplies Issued Fredericksburg Station (Va.), 
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	<unittitle>Ledger No. 10, List of supplies Issued Fredericksburg Station (Va.), 
	<unitdate type="inclusive">1780</unitdate>.</unittitle>
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	<unittitle>Ledger No. 11, List of supplies Issued Petersburg (Va.), 
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	<unittitle>Ledger No. 12, List of supplies Issued Petersburg, Bath Town, and Fredericksburg (Va.), 
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	<unittitle>Ledger No. 13, List of supplies Issued Hanover Town (Va.), 
	<unitdate type="inclusive">1779-1780</unitdate>.</unittitle>
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	</container>
	<container label="Folder" type="folder">1
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	<unittitle>Ledger No. 14, List of supplies Issued Winchester (Va.), 
	<unitdate type="inclusive">1780</unitdate>.</unittitle>
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	<unittitle>Ledger No. 16(?), List of supplies Issued Winchester and Manchester (Va.), 
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	<unittitle>Ledger No. (no number), List of supplies Issued Winchester (Va.), 
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	</container>
	<container label="Folder" type="folder">3
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	<unittitle>Ledger No. (no number), List of supplies Issued Winchester (Va.), 
	<unitdate type="inclusive">1777-1779</unitdate>.</unittitle>
	<container label="Box" type="box">2
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	<container label="Volume" type="volume">
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