Collections : [Library of Virginia]

The records in this collection consist largely of orders from the governor and Council authorizing the auditor to issue warrants, and vouchers submitted by creditors in support of their claims. The vouchers include the names of persons to whom money was owed, the amounts, reason for the payment, and the dates the vouchers were submitted. Documents supporting the claims pre-date the approval date by several years.

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.

Records, 1798-1869, including accounts, correspondence, receipts, vouchers, and warrants of the Virginia Penitentiary submitted to the Auditor of Public Accounts. The collection is arranged chronologically in nine boxes, with oversize materials arranged at the end. The bulk of the records relate to the purchase of food and supplies for prisoners, the building and expansion of the Penitentiary, and the sale of articles built by inmates.

Lists of pensioners, 1785-1804, includes printed lists with names of individuals receiving pensions from the state of Virginia. Each list is in alphabetical order by surname. Lists, 1786-1790, include name, residence, age, rank, corps, and annual allowance. Lists, 1785 and 1792-1804, include name and annual allowance only. Lists also indicate widows and orphans.

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.

Revolutionary War Military Service Pay Records, 1775-1818, include account books, bonds, correspondence, ledgers, lists of officers and men who received military pay certificates, and vouchers.