Letter of the Register of the Land Office, Covering a List of the Certificates of the Escheators caption title

by William G. Pendleton

$250 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Richmond, VA : 1821. First separate edition also printed in the House Journal for the Virginia General Assembly, 1821-1822 . Large 4to 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches . 2 pp., plus three folding sheets. The folding pages print the escheats, property that reverted to the state when no legal heirs or other claimants came forward at the settlement of estates, from the years 1814-1821; the record for each escheat includes the reputed area or quantity of such land, the county or corporation where

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