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Mathews, offering him the opportunity to secure the records of all the original titles to the lands of West Virginia. A series of letters from 1922-1924, signed by register John W. Richardson, concern the acquisition of various items for the land office. Other records address copies of warrants and grants made for members of the public.","The register annually reported to the auditor those grants which had been issued within the preceding calendar year. Copies of those reports for the years 1906, 1908-1916, and 1919-1923, as well as slips noting that the reports for 1917 and 1918 had been sent to the auditor are in this file. The period covered for this material 1795-1796; 1801; 1803; 1805; 1807; 1812; 1832; 1847-1848; 1851; 1880; 1922-1924, n.d."],"corpname_ssim":["Virginia. Land Office","West Virginia. Governor (1877-1881 : Mathews)."],"persname_ssim":["Brockenbrough, John Mercer, 1830-1892","Price, William, 1772-1808","Richardson, John W., d. 1899"],"names_ssim":["Virginia. 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He was the son of William Miller and Mary Heath.\n         He was an attorney, deputy sheriff and sheriff of Goochland\n         County, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and a\n         planter with estates in Goochland, Spotsylvania, and King\n         William Counties. He married Constance Massie, the daughter of\n         Maj. Nathaniel Massie and Betsy Watkins. Thomas Miller died at\n         his residence Lavallie in Goochland County on 27 April\n         1819.","James B. Ferguson was one of Thomas Miller's executors. He\n         was born circa 1781, and was also a planter and member of the\n         Virginia House of Delegates. He married Sally Gay, the\n         daughter of Willam Gay and Judith Scott.","Papers, 1754-1819, of Thomas Miller (1754-1819) of\n         Goochland County, Virginia, as well as the executor of his\n         estate James B. Ferguson (b. ca. 1781), also of Goochland.\n         Includes correspondence, subject files, accounts, receipts,\n         papers of William Gay and William Pope, and oversize items.\n         This collection is part of the Goochland County Circuit Court\n         Records.","The correspondence covers the years 1781-1848 and is\n         divided into letters to and from Thomas Miller, and those to\n         and from James B. Ferguson. Topics covered in the Thomas\n         Miller letters mainly concern business matters relating to the\n         operation of his vast land holdings in Goochland,\n         Spotsylvania, and King William Counties, and his various\n         plantations, including Byrd, Lavallie, Manskin Lodge, Slab\n         City, and Woodville. Subjects include the purchase, sale, and\n         shipments of corn, wheat, flour, and timber produced on his\n         plantations, as well as the sale and hire of slaves to work\n         the land. Many of these letters are written by the overseers\n         of his properties.","A large proportion of the letters are financial in nature\n         as well, and deal with his acting as security for loans, as\n         well as the loaning of money himself, to various individuals.\n         There are orders for payments of money and for goods. There\n         are letters from brokerage and mercantile houses in Richmond,\n         including Gallego, Richard \u0026 Company and Lewis Perkins\n         \u0026 Company, which sold Miller's products, and also advanced\n         him his needed capital.","Thomas Miller was an attorney, and many of his letters deal\n         with his duties representing various clients, including\n         notices of his intention to take depositions in court cases.\n         Miller was also deputy sheriff and sheriff of Goochland\n         County. There are a few letters relating to his duties in\n         these positions, including the issuing of executions.","Likewise, the letters of James B. Ferguson are business and\n         financial in nature. Many of them are written by Miller's\n         sons, who inherited their father's estate after his death.\n         James B. Ferguson was one of Miller's executors. There are\n         also many letters from Joseph S. Watkins, with whom Ferguson\n         had numerous business dealings. There is also a letter from\n         Watkins detailing his candidacy for the Virginia House of\n         Delegates in 1832.","The estate papers concern the estates of Obediah Daniel,\n         Gideon Hatcher, Thomas Miller, John Salmon, and Matthew\n         Vaughan. Material found in this series includes accounts,\n         attorneys', clerks' and sheriffs' fee bills, bonds,\n         correspondence, fifas, receipts, sales, and suit papers.","The subject files contain a variety of material, including\n         advertisements, affidavits and depositions, agreements, bonds,\n         clerks' and sheriffs' fee bills, deeds, fifas, various lists,\n         powers of attorney, promissory notes, slave bills of sale,\n         suit papers, and other items. There are also files, interfiled\n         in this series alphabetically by name, for individuals with\n         whom Miller had extensive business dealings.","There are series containing accounts and receipts, both\n         arranged by year. Within the receipts series is a group of\n         receipts for Miller's wheat crop.","There are two series of personal papers of William Gay\n         (1745-1815) and William Pope. Gay's daughter Sally married\n         James B. Ferguson. 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He was the son of William Miller and Mary Heath.\n         He was an attorney, deputy sheriff and sheriff of Goochland\n         County, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and a\n         planter with estates in Goochland, Spotsylvania, and King\n         William Counties. He married Constance Massie, the daughter of\n         Maj. Nathaniel Massie and Betsy Watkins. Thomas Miller died at\n         his residence Lavallie in Goochland County on 27 April\n         1819.","James B. Ferguson was one of Thomas Miller's executors. He\n         was born circa 1781, and was also a planter and member of the\n         Virginia House of Delegates. He married Sally Gay, the\n         daughter of Willam Gay and Judith Scott.","Papers, 1754-1819, of Thomas Miller (1754-1819) of\n         Goochland County, Virginia, as well as the executor of his\n         estate James B. 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