A Guide to the Letters received and sent from the Virginia Land Office, 1774-1977
A Collection in
the Library of Virginia
Accession Number LOI 18
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Preferred Citation
Virginia. Land Office. Letters received and sent from the Virginia Land Office, 1774-1977. Accession Land Office inventory entry no. 18, State government records collection, The Library of Virginia, Archives Branch, Richmond, VA 23219.
Acquisition Information
Accession LOI 18 transferred by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1948.
Biographical Information
The act which established the previous Land Office 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 incoming correspondence to the register of the Land Office, including the period the secretary of the commonwealth held the office, dealing primarily with business affairs. Included are requests for warrants and copies of grants and surveys, letters which accompanied incoming surveys, letters seeking information about military bounty lands, and inquiries regarding the manner of resolving conflicts pertaining to land possession. Many entries from the 20th century involve requests for information for genealogical or historical research, frequently to establish eligibility for membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution.
The General Assembly of 1867 appointed the register to be superintendent of weights and measures and that of 1874 added to his duties those of the superintendent of public buildings. The correspondence directed to the former office was filed separately and is described in entry 126, but that of the latter is incorporated in the regular land Office correspondence. The little extant correspondence directed to the register in his capacity as ex officio secretary of the Board of Immigration, an office assigned him by legislative action of March 1875, is described in entry 137.
Although some of the 19th century letters have notes for replies annexed (particularly during the periods 1810-1814 and 1875-1899), it is not until the 20th century that copies of the replies are attached to most letters received, sometimes typed onto the back of the original letter received. In 1948, the Land Office records were transferred from the custody of the Secretary of the Commonwealth to the State Library, and in 1952 the duties of the Register of the Land Office were transferred from the Secretary of the Commonwealth to the state librarian. Following the transfer, correspondence regarding the Land Office records was conducted by the state librarian, Randolph W. Church from 1948 to 1972, and Donald Haynes from 1972.
Index Terms
- Virginia. Land Office
- Virginia. Secretary of the Commonwealth
- Bounties, Military -- Virginia.
- Right of property -- Virginia.
- Correspondence.
- State government records -- Virginia
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Contents List
Chronological
- Box 1
Letters received, 1774-May 1798 .12 folders
- Box 2
Letters received, June 1798-December 1802 .10 folders
- Box 3
Letters received, January 1803-December 1806 .9 folders
- Box 4
Letters received, 1807-December 1813 .9 folders
- Box 5
Letters received, January 1814-June 1817 .7 folders
- Box 6
Letters received, July 1817-June 1820 .6 folders
- Box 7
Letters received, July 1820-December 1823 .6 folders
- Box 8
Letters received, January 1824-December 1826 .6 folders
- Box 9
Letters received, January 1827-April 1830 .7 folders
- Box 10
Letters received, May 1830-August 1831 .6 folders
- Box 11
Letters received, 1831-March 1833 .9 folders
- Box 12
Letters received, April 1833-May 1834 .6 folders
- Box 13
Letters received, August 1834-August 1835 .7 folders
- Box 14
Letters received, September 1835-December 1836 .7 folders
- Box 15
Letters received, January 1837-April 1838 .7 folders
- Box 16
Letters received, May 1838-May 1839 .5 folders
- Box 17
Letters received, June 1839-April 1840 .7 folders
- Box 18
Letters received, May 1840-September 1840 .5 folders
- Box 19
Letters received, October 1840-May 1841 .5 folders
- Box 20
Letters received, June 1841-March 1842 .6 folders
- Box 21
Letters received, April 1842-October 1842 .5 folders
- Box 22
Letters received, November 1842-August 1843 .6 folders
- Box 23
Letters received, September 1843-May 1844 .6 folders
- Box 24
Letters received, June 1844-January 1845 .6 folders
- Box 25
Letters received, February 1845-August 1845 .6 folders
- Box 26
Letters received, September 1845-February 1846 .5 folders
- Box 27
Letters received, March 1846-June 1846 .4 folders
- Box 28
Letters received, July 1846-November 1846 .6 folders
- Box 29
Letters received, December 1846-May 1847 .6 folders
- Box 30
Letters received, June 1847-September 1847 .4 folders
- Box 31
Letters received, October 1847-April 1848 .5 folders
- Box 32
Letters received, May 1848-August 1848 .4 folders
- Box 33
Letters received, September 1848-February 1849 .6 folders
- Box 34
Letters received, March 1849-August 1849 .5 folders
- Box 35
Letters received, September 1849-January 1850 .5 folders
- Box 36
Letters received, February 1850-May 1850 .5 folders
- Box 37
Letters received, June 1850-September 1850 .5 folders
- Box 38
Letters received, October 1850-March 1851 .6 folders
- Box 39
Letters received, April 1851-July 1851 .4 folders
- Box 40
Letters received, August 1851-November 1851 .5 folders
- Box 41
Letters received, December 1851-June 1852 .7 folders
- Box 42
Letters received, July 1852-January 1853 .7 folders
- Box 43
Letters received, February 1853-July 1853 .6 folders
- Box 44
Letters received, August 1853-16 January 1854 .6 folders
- Box 45
Letters received, 17 January 1854-16 April 1855 .5 folders
- Box 46
Letters received, 17 April 1854-15 July 1854 .6 folders
- Box 47
Letters received, 16 July 1854-October 1854 .7 folders
- Box 48
Letters received, November 1854-February 1855 .6 folders
- Box 49
Letters received, March 1855-15 June 1855 .5 folders
- Box 50
Letters received, 16 June 1855-September 1855 .7 folders
- Box 51
Letters received, October 1855-March 1856 .8 folders
- Box 52
Letters received, April 1856-September 1856 .6 folders
- Box 53
Letters received, October 1856-March 1857 .7 folders
- Box 54
Letters received, April 1857-July 1857 .8 folders
- Box 55
Letters received, August 1857-November 1857 .7 folders
- Box 56
Letters received, December 1857-April 1858 .6 folders
- Box 57
Letters received, May 1858-September 1858 .5 folders
- Box 58
Letters received, October 1858-March 1859 .6 folders
- Box 59
Letters received, April 1859-September 1859 .6 folders
- Box 60
Letters received, October 1859-December 1860 .7 folders
- Box 61
Letters received, January 1861-June 1870 .11 folders
- Box 62
Letters received, July 1870-December 1871 .8 folders
- Box 63
Letters received, January 1872-June 1873 .7 folders
- Box 64
Letters received, July 1873-August 1874 .7 folders
- Box 65
Letters received, August 1874-June 1876 .8 folders
- Box 66
Letters received, July 1876-September 1878 .9 folders
- Box 67
Letters received, October 1878-February 1895 .8 folders
- Box 68
Letters received, March 1895-1911 .14 folders
- Box 69
Letters received, 1912-December 1922 .19 folders
- Box 70
Letters received, January 1923-September 1923 .9 folders
- Box 71
Letters received, October 1923-June 1924 .9 folders
- Box 72
Letters received, 1927-Undated, S-Z .10 folders
- Box 73
Letters Received and Sent, 1948-1977 .57 folders
Alphabetical
- Box 73
Folder 1
General Folder A, 1951-1964 .
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Folder 2
F. W. Alley, 1950 .
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Folder 3
Mason Alvis, 1951-1952 .
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Folder 4
J. W. Baldwin, 1948-1953 .
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Folder 5
W. W. Baldwin and C. B. Belcher, 1951-1962 .
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Folder 6
C. W. Belcher, 1950 .
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Folder 7
Hubert C. Bickers, 1950 .
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Folder 8
R. C. Brown, 1948 .
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Folder 9
Fred Burgess, 1951 .
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Folder 10
General Folder C, 1950-1960 .
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Folder 11
Charles Carroll Carter, 1951-1953 .
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Folder 12
Loncey Clevinger, 1951-1953 .
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Folder 13
W. W. Coleman, 1951-1952 .
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Folder 14
General Folder D, 1958-1964 .
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Folder 15
Tucker R. Dearing, 1952 .
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Folder 16
Ray A. Dillon, 1951-1953 .
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Folder 17
L. N. Donati, 1949 .
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Folder 18
General Folder E, 1950 .
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Folder 19
H. D. Eichelberger, 1951 .
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Folder 20
Anderson Elswick, 1950-1952 .
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Folder 21
R. F. Filer and Mildred O. Filer, 1949-1954 .
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Folder 22
James E. Foltz and Mary J. Foltz, 1949-1950 .
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Folder 23
George A. Ford, 1950-1951 .
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Folder 24
H. M. Ford, Jr., 1953-1954 .
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Folder 25
Beamon T. Forrest, 1948 .
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Folder 26
General Folder G, 1975 .
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Folder 27
C. C. Gouldman, 1948-1949 .
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Folder 28
John C. Gouldman, 1949-1950 .
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Folder 29
Wallace E. Graves, 1949-1950 .
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Folder 30
David A. Harrison, III, 1977 .
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Folder 31
General Folder H, 1969 .
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Folder 32
Frank Hatter, 1951-1952 .
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Folder 33
William E. Hogg, 1952 .
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Folder 34
Morton H. Hopkins, 1951-1952 .
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Folder 35
J. W. Hutchens, 1958 .
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Folder 36
L. C. Jones, 1950-1951 .
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Folder 37
Mrs. Mary E. Jones, 1949 .
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Folder 38
General Folder K, 1954 .
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Folder 39
T. C. Keith, 1952-1953 .
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Folder 40
W. W. Koontz 1950-1951 .
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Folder 41
General Folder L, 1949-1957 .
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Folder 42
General Folder M, 1950-1966 .
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Folder 43
Charlie Matney, 1951 .
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Folder 44
James R. May 1948-1949 .
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Folder 45
C. S. Minter 1949-1951 .
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Folder 46
Bethel Mitchell, 1957 .
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Folder 47
General Folder P 1949-1962 .
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Folder 48
Robert S. Peters, 1967 .
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Folder 49
J. F. Quisenberry, 1949 .
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Folder 50
Nettie Hunt Russell, 1949 .
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Folder 51
General Folder S 1950-1972 .
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Folder 52
Lewis S. Sachs, 1950 .
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Folder 53
Allen Stuart, 1949-1950 .
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Folder 54
Clyde W. Tabor, 1951-1952 .
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Folder 55
R. Vernon Taylor, 1948-1950 .
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Folder 56
B. L. Tremelon, 1950 .
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Folder 57
General Folder W, 1956-1973 .
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Folder 1