PUBLIC "-//Library of Virginia//TEXT (US::Vi::vi04815::A Guide to the Rights for land of the Virginia Land Office, 1738-1750)//EN" "vi04815.xml" A Guide to the Rights for land of the Virginia Land Office, 1738-1750 LOI 3 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, 2 September 2014 Description is in English A Guide to the Rights for land of the Virginia Land Office, 1738-1750 A Collection in the Library of Virginia LOI 3 Claire Radcliffe

Library of Virginia 2014 Daphne S. Gentry Library of Virginia Descriptive Summary The Library of Virginia Rights for land of the Virginia Land Office, 1738-1750 LOI 3 47 items English Virginia. Colonial Land Office. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

Virginia. Land Office. Rights for land of the Virginia Land Office, 1738-1750. Accession Land Office inventory entry no. 3, State government records collection, The Library of Virginia, Archives Branch, Richmond, VA 23219.

Acquisition Information

Accession LOI 3 transferred by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1948.

Historical Information

The act which established the previous Land Office next hit 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

These records contain printed forms signifying that a stated sum had been paid and that the bearer was entitled to the specified acreage, at a ratio of one crown for fifty acres. Only the date and the signatures of the deputy auditor John Blair and receivers general John Grymes and Philip Grymes are written by hand. Several of the records have annotations on the back, including the names those records were issued to: Joshua Fry, M. Eaton, Isaac Hale, Lewis Whitehead, Edmund Wooldridge, and John Madison.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into the following series:

Rights for land of the Virginia Land Office, 1738-1750 Index Terms Persons: Blair, John, 1687-1771 Grymes, John, 1692-1748 Grymes, Philip, 1721-1762 Fry, Joshua, approximately 1700-1754 Eaton, M. Hale, Isaac. Whitehead, Lewis. Wooldridge, Edmund. Madison, John. Corporate Names: Virginia. Land Office. Subjects: Land grants -- Virginia -- 18th century. Right of property -- Virginia. Geographical Names: Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Genre and Form Terms: Forms (documents) State government records.