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Preferred Citation

Virginia. Land Office. List of officers and soldiers of the Virginia Line for whom it appears warrants have issued from that state for services rendered in the Revolutionary War; on continental establishment, and now presented at the War Department, from the Virginia Land Office, undated. Accession Land Office inventory entry no. 99, State government records collection, The Library of Virginia, Archives Branch, Richmond, VA 23219.

Acquisition Information

Accession LOI 99 transferred by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1948.

Historical 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

The record contains a list divided into eleven columns, all blank except for the first three. The number of the warrant, the name of the person to whom it was issued, and his rank are recorded. However, the columns noting the regiment or corps in which he served, the date he entered service, the term of his service, and the date he resigned or was discharged for the first, second, and third enlistments, or "engagements," are blank.

The record lists 29 warrants issued to 24 men: Thomas Holt, John Stephenson, James Berwick, John Mickum, Abraham Bowman, William Finnie, Peter Higgins, Albrighton Jones, Joseph Britton, Lewis Lowry, John Johnson, John Carson, Thaddeus Battles, George Purcell, Francis Boykin, John Meanly, William Davis, Thaddeus Pinkstone, Reuben Stivers, Price Keys, William Sanford, William Woodson, John Richards, and Josiah Parker.

Index Terms

Corporate Names:

• United States. Continental Army
• Virginia. Land Office

Subjects:

• Bounties, Military -- Virginia.
• Land grants -- Virginia.

Geographical Names:

• Virginia -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783

Genre and Form Terms:

• Lists.
• State government records -- Virginia