Collections : [Library of Virginia]

Commissioners to Examine Claims in Norfolk included Robert Andrews, Daniel Fisher, Richard Kello, and Joseph Prestis. Report and Journal of the Commissioners to Examine Claims in Norfolk, 1777, details procedures followed and also includes A Schedule of Claims Entered for Losses Sustained by the Late Inhabitants of the Borough of Norfolk, which details 216 claims. The schedule includes claim number, name and occupation of the claimant, number of houses, amount of real and personal property destroyed before 15 January 1775 and amount of real and personal property destroyed after 15 January 1775, how destroyed, proof of loss, and total amount of loss. The schedule distiguishes between losses caused by Lord Dunmore, troops of the state, and by order of the convention. The proof of loss includes names of deponents. Depositions (1-19) and (C-Q), substantiate the claims and include details of loss and often the occupation of the deponent. Rather than 19 depostions, there are actually 20, but two are numbered 10. Many of the depositions, C-Q, include wrappers only, so are not listed below. A Copy of the valuation of property destroyed in Norfolk by the orders of Col. Robert Howe when evacuated by VA and NC troops in 1776, undated, lists property owner, type of property and the value of the property. The valuation folder also includes depositions.

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.

These minute books document the daily recording of House of Delegates proceedings. They include order of business; bills and resolutions introduced or acted upon; notations of correspondence, reports, and petitions read; ballots counted; appointments; and additional summaries of legislative action. The library has minute books for 1776-1860, 1900-1973 and 1975-1977. Volumes are also referred to as Order books.

This artificial collection consists of miscellaneous records in the Revolutionary War / Revolutionary Government record group (R.G. 2) at the Library of Viginia. Collection includes accounts, certificates, correspondence, indexes, lists, muster rolls, payrolls, proceedings, receipts, registers, returns and other miscellaneous items.

Naval Officer records include the following: Returns of goods imported and exported, 1778-1789; Office of the Searcher permits and returns, 1787-1789; Ship registrations, 1785-1989; State Boats Liberty and Patriot, 1782-1789; and Miscellaneous, 1782-1789.

Quartermaster at Staunton records, 1779-1782, consist of correspondence, 1779, 1782; Convention troops accounts and receipts, 1779-1780; and Pulaski's Legion accounts, receipts and returns, 1779-1780.

Public Foundry at Westham records include: Account book of John Reveley, 1779-1781 and account papers, 1776-1789; Journal, 1779-1781; and Ledgers (3), 1776-1781, with an Index, 1779-1781.

Virginia Board of Trade records include a Journal, 1779-1780 and a Letter book, 1779-1780.

Virginia Commissary of Stores records include account books, daybooks, journals, ledgers, and receipt books for Public Stores at Fredericksburg, Illinois / Kaskaskie, Pennsylvania / Philadelphia, Petersburg, Richmond and Williamsburg.

Navy Board records include Accounts, 1776-1782; Excerpt of the journal of the Navy Board, 1779 Apr 24; Journal, 1780; Ledger, 1776-1779; Letterbook, 1776-1777; List of captains and lieutenants, 1776-1779; List of Officers and Seamen of the State Navy and Marines, 1776-1779; Minute books, 1777-1778; Order books, 1776-1779; Payrolls and account of clothing of the Brig Jefferson, 1780-1781; and Proceedings, 1784.