A Guide to the Assignments from the Virginia Land Office, 1775-1903
A Collection in
the Library of Virginia
Accession Number LOI 44
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Preferred Citation
Virginia. Land Office. Assignments from the Virginia Land Office, 1775-1903. Accession Land Office inventory entry no. 44, State government records collection, The Library of Virginia, Archives Branch, Richmond, VA 23219.
Acquisition Information
Accession LOI 44 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 unidentified and unsupported assignments, most of which are from the 18th century. Some of the assignments are for lands due under preemption warrants or warrants issued for colonial war service while the balance is for treasury warrants. One indenture, recorded in Philadelphia in 1785, applies to nineteen surveys on file in the Land Office; it was made between Isaac Sidman and his fellow merchants James Newport, William Kay, John Shields, John Redman, and Robert McKnight, all of Philadelphia. Twenty-eight of the records are signed by John and George May, two brothers from Virginia who settled in what is now Jefferson County, Kentucky. George was a surveyor and both men were land speculators. The period covered is 1775-1903, with the bulk of the records dated between 1775 and 1796.
Index Terms
- Virginia. Land Office
- Kay, William
- May, George, d. 1795
- May, John, d. 1790
- McKnight, Robert
- Newport, James
- Redman, John
- Shields, John
- Sidman, Isaac
- Bounties, Military -- Virginia.
- Land grants -- Virginia.
- State government records -- Virginia