I found the following description of a book in a 1994 Virginia Genealogical SOciety newsletter. Is this still available from the LIbrary of VCVA anyone know? I did see it in the catalog, but is it still around to purchase? Has anyone ever referenced it? Are the records listed in it listed elsewhere? Thanks
John S. Salmon and J. Christian Kolbe,
Accounts Inventory
softcover; $10.00 plus $1.50 postage. Order from theAuditor of Public(1 992) xvi, 166 pp. ; index; spiral-bound;Publications Department, Virginia State Library and
Archives, Richmond, VA 23219-3491.
The preface to this volume states that "no other record
group in the custody of the Archives contains such rich and
varied materials as the auditor of public accounts..
from 1776 to 1928
Virginia." The following sample entries attest to the truth
of this statement:
Military and Tax Accounts 16 Jly-6 August 1787. 1
volume
soldiers and officers for Revolutionary War
service, including names, descriptions of service
and amounts due; chronological arrangement.
[Eastern Va.] Militia Payrolls and Supply Vouchers
1807-1 8 12. 3 inches; includes names of soldiers,
dates of service and rates of pay; chronological
arrangement.
Commutation for Disabled Soldiers. Register 1876-
1880. 1 volume. Alphabetical; includes soldier's
name, place of residence, nature of disability.
(entries 184-188 also deal with disabled veterans;
entries 189-195 are various registers of veterans
and pensioners 1888-1928).
Correspondence, Rolls and Vouchers. 1785, 1788,
1792-1 800. Primarily muster rolls, payrolls for
militia, scouts and rangers and powers of attorney
from soldiers to collect their pay for service in
defense of the western frontier now southwest
Virginia and West Virginia.
Delinquent Taxpayers 1781-1809, 1830; 4 feet 2
inches; "Of genealogical significance are the lists
that note removals to other counties and states."
Land Tax Books 1782-1807, 1809-1863, 1865-1927;
approximately 15,000 volumes and 473 reels of
microfilm;
Free Blacks. Records. 1833-41, 1845, 1849-1860,
1862-3; 10 inches.
Overseers of the Poor 1800- 1864, 187 1-8 1, 1884- 1907,
1909, 12 feet 2 inches and 10 volumes
1850s the reports contain the names of the poor
and often information on ages, physical condition
and morals.
The above are individual entries. General categories
which have a number of entries include the George Rogers
Clark Papers, Military Service Pay, Militia, Pensions,
Public Claims, Impressed Property Claims (all
Revolutionary War period).. [which]... [controlled] the financial affairs of. . . contains mostly settlements of pay with... by the
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