Description of Collection
Land Office Military Certificates are printed forms on which the names of Revolutionary War officers, soldiers and sailors are filled in as well as the details of their service in the State or Continental line. In order to receive bounty lands for Revolutionary War service, a soldier or sailor must have served continuously for at least three years in a Virginia or Continental unit. Service in the militia did not count.
Once proof of qualifying military service was established and a claim was approved in the Governor's Office, the governor issued a certificate authorizing the Land Office to issue a warrant. The warrant specified the amount of lands to be received and directed the surveyor of lands to set aside that quantity of land in the western reserves of Kentucky and Ohio.
Certificates verify Revolutionary War service but not necessarily land ownership since many soldiers or their families sold the warrants to investors or speculators. The bound registers in the Land Office also contain the essential information from the certificates. Information concerning the disposition of the warrants is located in the state records of Kentucky and Ohio.
LO 3827 Harvey, Edward Pvt CL box 82, 30 / 1 item
LO 4713 Harvey, Norman Pvt CL box 82, 31/1 item
LO 6913 Harvey, Norment Pvt CL box 82, 32 / 2 items
LO 3420 Harvey, Richard Pvt CL box 82, 33 / 1 item
Description of Collection
The Rejected Claims files consist of the accumulated documents intended to verify the dates of service of officers, soldiers, and sailors in a Virginia or Continental army or naval unit during the Revolutionary War. The files include affidavits of commanding officers or fellow soldiers, discharge papers, and other records of service. When the soldier or sailor had died while in service, his heirs were required to submit documentation verifying their status as legal heirs as well as proof of the military service. The papers were reviewed in the governor's office and either approved or rejected.
The papers in this collection are those of the applicants determined not to have had military service of a sufficient length to qualify for the specific land bounty sought. Many of these claims were for additional bounty land. While many of the rejected applicants had military service, it was not enough to qualify for the bounty requested.
The Bounty Warrant files consist of the accumulated documents intended to verify dates of service of officers, soldiers, and sailors in a Virginia or Continental army or naval unit during the Revolutionary War. The files often include affidavits of commanding officers or fellow soldiers, discharge papers, and other records of service. When the soldier or sailor had died while in service, his heirs were required to submit documentation verifying their status as legal heirs as well as proof of the military service. The governor's office reviewed the application and the approved records were then filed in a record group now identified as Bounty Warrants.
The disapproved papers are known as Rejected Claims. In order to qualify for an award of bounty lands for Revolutionary War service, an applicant must have served continuously for at least three years in a State or Continental unit. Service in the militia did not count.
Once proof of military service was established and a claim was approved, the governor's office issued a certificate authorizing the Land Office to issue a warrant for a specific amount of land. The amount of land awarded varied according to the applicant's rank and length of service. The warrant directed the surveyor of lands to set aside that quantity of land in the western reserves of Kentucky and Ohio. Information concerning the disposition of the warrants is located in the state records of Kentucky and Ohio.
Description of Collection
The Legislature, sitting in session between 16 October 1780 and 2 January 1781, passed "An act for recruiting this state's quota of troops to serve in the Continental Army" [Hening 10:326-327] which called for each county to supply a specific number of men. The act further called for the county militia to be divided into equal units, or classes, and one man to be chosen by lot to serve 'during the war, or for the term of three years'. If the quota was not thus recruited, one man was to be drafted from each class. Culpeper County was responsible for furnishing 106 men. This collection lists all the men in each class and the individual drafted from each. In some cases a trade or physical description of the draftee is given.
Virginia Soldiers of 1776, p.7
Nelly Dozier, Nancy M. Raines and William D. Raines, appointed Vespasian
Ellis their attorney with Thomas H. Harvey of Northumberland Co. 14
Mar., 1833.
Virginia Soldiers of 1776, p.74
At a court held for Accomack Co. 27 Dec., 1830. Certified that Lieut. Thomas
Chandler at the time of his death left Mitchell Chandler, his eldest brother,
Laban Chandler and Littleton Chandler, younger brothers and his sister,
Catherine Chandler his only heirs; that said Littleton, now living; Sarah P.
Burton wife of John B. Burton is the only heir at law of said Catherine
Chandler, now deceased. That Mitchell Chandler, Thomas Chandler, Rosey
Fitzgerald, Patience Harvey, Amelia Snead (wife of John Snead), Elizabeth
W. and Amy Chandler are the heirs at law of Mitchell Chandler; that Bagwell
and Mary are the heirs of Laban Chandler who was a son of said Laban
Chandler, decd.; and that Elizabeth, John, Sarah, Tabitha Josiah, And
Euphemia Chandler are the only heirs at law of Elisha Chandler a son of said
Laban Chandler, decd. Copy teste, Jas. Ailsworth, Dep. for Thos. R. Joynes.
Virginia Soldiers of 1776, p.320
Craven Co., N. C. Apl. 3, 1834. Thomas Sparrow and John Harvey of the
said county and state, testified that they knew Capt. William T. Sparrow,
formerly of New Bern, N. C. That Capt. Sparrow sailed from New Bern in
July, 1824 in and commanding the Brig, North Carolina, the brig was then
owned by John Harvey and John Harvey, Jr. of New Bern; bound for
Damerara. Since which time Capt. Sparrow has not been heard from, at New
Bern, and it has been generally believed that he was lost at sea. Letters of
admstr. have been taken upon his estate some seven or eight years since.
Signed, Thos Sparrow, John Harvey, Before, Hardy Whitford, J. of P.
Attest, James G. Stanley, Clerk, Craven Co., N. C.
Virginia Soldiers of 1776, p.349
The children of Margaret Humble, decd. were:--Harry (Harvey), John,
Louisa, and Uriah.
Virginia Soldiers of 1776, p.350
That Margaret Humble another daughter of said Thomas Ravenscroft is now
dead having left Harvey, John, Louisa and Uriah, her children. Signed under
oath, Joseph Shawhan.
Virginia Soldiers of 1776, p.469
and personal knowledge of the family of Robert Conway; he the said Robert
Conway was first a Captain in the navy and afterwards a Lieutenant in the line,
and that the fact not being mentioned in the court order, was neglect. Signed,
Thomas H. Harvey.
Virginia Soldiers of 1776, p.469
Robert, Francis, Eliza (now Sutton) and Catherine (now Nelms) Conway and
William Middleton, guardian to Jane Conway, appointed Thomas H. Harvey
of Northumberland Co. their Atty. 13 May, 1833.