Miscellaneous, 1797-1892.

Containers:

Box 1, Folder 1

Scope and content:

Contains a variety of documents from the Land Office, as well as a number of papers unrelated to Land Office affairs. Some of these documents include lottery tickets authorized by the board of the Literary Fund, 1819; an account of sales of furniture for Gervas S. Burton, 1855; the draft of a speech about a painting to be unveiled at Yorktown, undated; a J. K. Cilley and Co. price list for furs and pelts, 1887, with handwritten survey notes on the back; a Craven County, North Carolina, court abstract involving the supposed disappearance at sea of an individual, 1834; a pamphlet from the Committee for the Relief of the Poor for the city of Richmond, 1881; and a United States Weather Bureau 12th monthly report of the Virginia Weather Service, 1892. Other documents in the collection include a commission for Francis Wilks as justice of the peace in South Carolina, 1819; an invoice from the Richmond and York River Rail Road Company, 1855; and a list of delinquent lands purchased by the Commonwealth in Tucker County, 1860.

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