Go to the LVA website: www.lva.lib.va.us
Click on:
     Digital Library Program
     Military History
     Revolutionary War Public Service Claims
Please read the Information ... before clicking on the names in which you
are interested.

The records were abstracted in a multi-volume series published in 1991.
Again, go to the LVA website and click on 'online catalog.' The series is
called *Virginia Revolutionary Publick Claims* and the author is Janice L.
Abercrombie. You might prefer to do your search through her name.

Daphne Gentry

 > Dear Library and List,
 > Today at the LDS Family History Center, Santa Monica, I stumbled
 > across a great find: a book listing patriots who made Revolutionary
 > Public Claims for non-military service in the Revolutionary War.  Lo
 > and behold, my grX4 grandfather is listed!  When Dr. Earl Swem was
 > assistant librarian at the Virginia State Library, he assembled and made
 > available to researchers these Public Claims as well as Personal and
 > Land Tax Books, beginning 1782, for every county in Virginia.
 >
 > The book further states these Indexes of Revolutionary Public Claims
 > are valuable because they are available in no other place than the
 > manuscripts in the archives of the Virginia State Library. I believe
 > Dr. Swem died around 1965.  Would these holdings now be in the
 > Library of Virginia?  I'd sure like to order a copy of the original
 > document but find no website information whatsoever.
 >                                   Thank you, anyone with an answer!
 >                                       Marilyn (Baldwin) Carlson
 >                                       Placentia, California

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