PUBLIC "-//Library of Virginia//TEXT (US::Vi::vi04813::A Guide to the Memorandum book of the Virginia Land Office, 1822-1826)//EN" "vi04813.xml" A Guide to the Memorandum book of the Virginia Land Office, 1822-1826 LOI 9 Claire Radcliffe Library of Virginia © 2014 By The Library of Virginia. All Rights Reserved.

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Machine-readable finding aid derived from MARC record by Claire Radcliffe, 25 August 2014 Description is in English A Guide to the Memorandum book of the Virginia Land Office, 1822-1826 A Collection in the Library of Virginia LOI 9 Claire Radcliffe

Library of Virginia 2014 Daphne S. Gentry Library of Virginia Descriptive Summary The Library of Virginia Memorandum book of the Virginia Land Office, 1822-1826 LOI 9 1 vol. English Virginia. Land Office Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

Virginia. Land Office. Register. Memorandum book, 3 December 1822-29 March 1826. Accession Land Office Inventory Entry No. 9, State government records collection, The Library of Virginia, Archives Branch, Richmond, Virginia 23219.

Acquisition Information

Accession LOI 9 transferred by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1948.

Alternative Form Available

Also available on microfilm (Land Office reel 362)

Historical Information

The act which established the Land Office passed the General Assembly on 22 June 1779. The register was the head of the Office and was appointed by joint ballot of both houses of the legislature.

Scope and Content

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.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into the following series:

I. Memorandum book

Arranged chronologically.

 Index Terms Corporate Names: Virginia. Land Office Subjects: Land grants -- Virginia -- 19th century. Genre and Form Terms: Ledgers (account books) Lists. State government records.