Thomas Jefferson Papers

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
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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.

1MS mutilated; two or three words missing.

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

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