General operational records of the Virginia Land Office, 1769-1920.

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General operational records of the Virginia Land Office, 1769-1920.

These records contain records generally related to the operations of the Land Office but which do not fit into any existing series, including memoranda pertaining to searches of the records made by office clerks for unnamed individuals, warrants, post office box receipts, unrecorded caveats and surveys,preemption certificates not of record, and fragments. The few papers which do not appear to be related to Land Office affairs include lottery tickets authorized by the board of the Literary Fund, 1819;an account of sales of furniture for Gervas S. Burton, 1855; the draft of a speech about a painting to be unveiled at Yorktown, n.d.; a J.K. Cilley & Co. price list for furs and pelts, 1887; a Craven County, North Carolina, court abstract involving the supposed disappearance at sea of an individual, 1834; and a United States Weather Bureau 12th monthly report of the Virginia Weather Service, 1892. These records cover the period 1769; 1774; 1779-1782; 1785; 1789-1792; 1796-1798; 1803; 1810; 1813; 1818- 1819; 1822; 1826-1832; 1834; 1837; 1840; 1846; 1851; 1854-1857; 1860; 1866-1867; 1870-1871; 1873; 1881-1883; 1887; 1891-1892; 1903-1905; 1920, n.d.2 in.

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Library of Virginia

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After the conclusion of the French and Indian War, the British government issued a proclamation designed to prevent clashes between the settlers and Indians. This proclamation of 1763 forbid settlement west of the Alleghany mountains. From the description of List of complete military warrants under the Proclamation of 1763 from the Virginia Land Office,. (Library of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 318646134 The act which established the Land Office passed the General Assembly...