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Preferred citation: [Identification of item], James Monroe Paper, WLU Coll 0017, Special Collections, Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA.
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James Monroe was the Governor of Virginia, 1799-1802, 1811.
This collection includes the appointment, July 29, 1800, of John Bowyer, Andrew Reid, and John Caruthers as presidential electors; proclamation, March 16, 1802, by Gov. Monroe authorizing the meeting house outside Lexington, Va. as a proper place for holding court (2 copies); and U.S. land grant of 160 acres, April 2, 1818, to Aaron Sanford. All of these documents are signed by Monroe.
This document commissions Bowyer, Caruthers, and Reid as Electors for the County of Rockbridge.
This document proclaims that the Courts will use the local meeting house following the destruction of the Courthouse of the County of Rockbridge by fire.
This document proclaims that the Courts will use the local meeting house following the destruction of the Courthouse of the County of Rockbridge by fire.