List of Loan Office Certificates Sent to the County Lieutenants, 29 July 1780

List of Loan Office Certificates Sent to the County Lieutenants

In Council, July 29. 1780

The Governor is advised to certify to the Aud[itor] the number of tobacco loan offices certificates [sent] to the Lieutenant of each county under the [. . . .]1

[Ea]ch such County Lt. is to be debited [for certificates?] accordingly certified as follows viz:

	Certif.	acts		Certif.	acts
P. George	33	13	Brunswic	94	28
Dinwiddie	59	19	Sussex	57	19
Lunenburg	49	17	Southampton	68	22
Mecklenburg	76	24	Nansemond	58	19

Norfolk	70	23	Berkley	85	26
Princess Ann.	47	16	Hampshire	80	25
I. Wight	50	17
Surry	30	12	Hanover	78	24
			Caroline	74	24
Chesterfield	66	21	Spotsylvania	52	18
Amelia	87	27	K George	32	13
Pr. Edwd	16	44	Stafford	57	19
Charlott	50	18	P. William	60	20
Halifax	80	25	Fairfax	60	20
Pittsylvania	57	19	Loudoun	148	32
Henry	20	63	Fauquier	87	27
Montgomery	49	17	Culpepper	135	39
Washington	75	24	Orange	46	16
Kentuckey	230	64	Louisa	55	18
Powhatan	28	11	Chas City	24	11
Cumberland	38	14	New Kent	82	13
Buckingham	49	17	K. Wm	37	14
Bedford	120	35	K. & Queen	45	16
Rockbridge.	49	17	Essex	50	17
Bottetourt	60	20	Richmond	40	15
Greenbriar.	43	15	Westmorld	38	14
			Northumbd	55	19
			Lancaster	18	9
Goochiand	43	15	Middlesex	18	9
Fluvanna	35	20	Gloster2	67	21
Albemarle	70	22	York	18	9
Amherst	46	16	Jas. City	18	8
Augusta	119	35	Warwick	10	7
Rockingham	40	15	Eliz	13	8
Shenandoe	70	23	N. Hampton	40	14
Frederick	80	25	Accomack	90	28
				4044

Two certificates viz. No. 2555. & 2556. were returned to the Treasurer as being supernumerary.

Tabular MS (DLC). The names of the counties and first column of figures are in a clerk’s hand. The second column of figures, under “acts,” is in TJ’s hand, and a vertical line has been run through the entire second column (see below). The memoranda preceding and following the list are also in TJ’s hand.

This list was compiled as a record of the tobacco loan office certificates sent to the various counties for the purpose of drafting troops for the Continental army according to an Act passed at the May 1780 session; see Memorandum of Executive Agenda, 19 July 1780; also Hening, description begins William W. Hening, The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia description ends x, 257–62; and TJ to County Lieutenant of Botetourt, 24 July 1780; the last fully explains the procedure for handling and using these certificates. The second column of figures, deleted in MS, undoubtedly tabulates the number of copies of the Act forwarded to each county with the certificates; this was a temporary memorandum, and the data were eliminated before TJ had the list of certificates copied off to be sent, with his certification, to the auditor.

1. MS mutilated; two or three words missing.

2. The entries for Gloucester and the next four counties were enclosed in rectangular lines, the significance of which is not known.

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Title: List of Loan Office Certificates Sent to the County Lieutenants, 29 July 1780
Author: Jefferson, Thomas
Date: 29 July 1780

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Cite as: “List of Loan Office Certificates Sent to the County Lieutenants, 29 July 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-03-02-0596. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 3, 18 June 1779 – 30 September 1780, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951, pp. 515–516.]