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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.
Accession LOI 3 transferred by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1948.
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.
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.
This collection is arranged into the following series:
Rights for land of the Virginia Land Office, 1738-1750