AAI- Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Inventory Entry 211 (“APA 211”), Accounts of the Committee of Safety (Journal 21 Oct 1779-5 July 1776); aka Auditors’ Account Vol I (128 pages), barcode 1142031, misc reels 301, 620.

AAII- Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Receipts and Disbursements Journals of the Virginia Auditor of Public Accounts; Volume II (Journal 5 March-23 July 1779, 278 pages), barcode 1080056, misc reel 149.

AAIII- Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Inventory Entry 34 (“APA 34”), Receipts and Warrants 1779-1791; Volume III (Journal 24 July 1779-4 March 1780, 329 pages), aka Aud Acct 1779-80, barcode 1080054.

AAIV- Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Inventory Entry 206A (“APA 206A”), Accounts with the Illinois Department (Journal 5 January 1778-13 December 1783, 124 pages); aka Vol IV; aka Aud Account Book 1778-1783 Ill. Dept., barcode 1081425.

AAV- Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Inventory Entry 34 (“APA 34”), Receipts and Warrants 1779-1791; Volume V (Journal 6 March-13 October 1780), aka Aud Acct 1780, barcode 1080057.

AAVI- Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Inventory Entry 45 (“APA 45”), Receipts and Disbursements Journals of the Virginia Auditor of Public Accounts, 1778-1797; Volume VI (Journal 11 May 1780-3 January 1781, 566 pages); aka Aud Acct 1780-81, barcode 1080533, misc reel 6251. A separate volume was appended to the front of this one at some point, and the date range is now 14 December 1778-3 January 1781.

AAVII- Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Inventory Entry 34 (“APA 34”), Receipts and Warrants 1779-1791; Vol VII (Journal 16 October 1780-23 March 1783, 328 pages); barcode 1080059. 

AAVIII- Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Inventory Entry 34 (“APA 34”), Receipts and Warrants 1779-1791; Vol VIII (Journal 24 March-14 November 1781, unpaginated); barcode 1080055, misc reel 150. 

AAIX- Library of Virginia, Receipts and Warrants 30 Aug-22 Dec 1781.

AAX- Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Inventory Entry 34 (“APA 34”), Receipts and Warrants 1779-1791; Vol X (Journal 15 November 1781-31 October 1782, 326 pages); barcode 1080058. 

AAXI- Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Inventory Entry 34 (“APA 34”), Receipts and Warrants 1779-1791; Vol XI (Journal 5 January-7 November 1782, unpaginated); barcode 1080061. 

AAXII- Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Inventory Entry 34 (“APA 34”), Receipts and Warrants 1779-1791; Vol XII (Journal 8 November 1782-10 February 1783, 329 pages); barcode 1080060, misc reel 150. 

AAXIII- Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Inventory Entry 45 (“APA 45”), Receipts and Disbursements Journals of the Virginia Auditor of Public Accounts, 1778-1797; Volume XIII (Journal 5 January 1782-25 April 1783).

AAXIIIA- Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Inventory Entry 34 (“APA 34”), Receipts and Warrants 1779-1791; Vol XIIIA (Journal 11 February-17 April 1783, 327 pages); barcode 1080064.

AAXIV- Library of Virginia, Receipts and Disbursements Journal 25 April-4 July 1783, Vol XVI, 334 pages.

AAXV- Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Inventory Entry 45 (“APA 45”), Receipts and Disbursements Journals of the Virginia Auditor of Public Accounts, 1778-1797; Volume XV (Journal 25 April-29 October 1783, 630 pages); barcode 1080523, misc reels 249, 6254.

AAXVI- Library of Virginia, Receipts and Disbursements Journals, Vol XVI (Journal 4 July-29 October 1783). 

AAXVII- Library of Virginig, Receipts and Disbursements Journals, Vol XVII (Journal 30 October 1783-23 January 1784).

AAXVIII- Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Inventory Entry 45 (“APA 45”), Receipts and Disbursements Journals of the Virginia Auditor of Public Accounts, 1778-1797; Volume XVIII (Journal 30 Oct 1783-22 May 1784).

AAXXII- Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Inventory Entry 45 (“APA 45”), Receipts and Disbursements Journals of the Virginia Auditor of Public Accounts, 1778-1797; Volume XXII (Journal 24 May 1784-9 Aug 1784).

Abercrombie- Abercrombie & Slatten, Virginia Revolutionary Publick Claims (Athens, Ga.: Iberian), 1992. 3 vols. This is a transcription of the “county court booklets” located in Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Inventory Entry 242, “Court Booklets: 1781-1783.”

ACC24278- Library of Virginia, Fincastle & Montgomery Counties: Revolutionary War Records, 1775-1783, Accession 24278, Barcode 1118855.

ACC24296- Library of Virginia, Register of Non-commissioned Officers and Privates 1777-1783, Accession 24296.

ACC36918- Library of Virginia, Accession 36918, “List of Deserters from Major Jones’s Battalion of Militia, 1781.” This list is indexed in Eckenrode, Virginia Soldiers in the American Revolution, vol 1, with the source citation “Executive Communications, 1781.” Eckenrode did not show the indexed soldiers as deserters.

ACC40- See ACC23816.

ACC23816– Library of Virginia, Record Group 2, State Government, Accession 23816, Roll of Troops Who Joined at Chesterfield Courthouse Since 1780. Also listed as Accession 40 in LVA catalog. Accession 23816 is the photostat copy.

ACC44288- Library of Virginia, Record Group 2, State Government, Accession 44288.

ACCM- Augusta County Court Martial Minutes.

ACCOM1- Library of Virginia, Barcode number 0007431156, Accomack County Military and Pension Records 1778-1861, Folder “1778-Muster Delinquents”.

APA 17- Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Inventory Entry 17, “Vouchers on Account.”

APA 138- Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Inventory Entry 138, “Aggregate Fund” and “Orders and Vouchers,” Box 331, barcode 1081044.

APA 139- Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Inventory Entry 139, “General Contingent Fund,” Accession 1081005.

APA 174- Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Inventory Entry 174, “Point of Fork Arsenal.”

APA 206- Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Inventory Entry 206, “George Rogers Clark Papers, Supply Agent Correspondence and Accounts, 1779-1850.”

APA 226- Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Inventory Entry 226, “Recruitment of State Troops for the U.S. Army.”

APA 228- Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Inventory Entry 228, “List of Recruits Raised in Lancaster County, agreeable to an Act of Assembly for recruiting the state’s quota of troops to serve in the Continental Army, 1781.

APA 238- Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Inventory Entry 238, “General Claims Approved,” arranged by county.

APA 245- Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Inventory Entry 245, “Deputy Quarter Master General Southern Department Accounts.”

APA 661- Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Inventory Entry 661, “Lead Mines.”

AUG16- Augusta County Order Book 16.

BED6- Bedford County Order Book 6.

BERK2- Berkeley County Order Book 2.

BERK3- Berkeley County Order Book 3.

BERK4- Berkeley County Order Book 4.

BERK5- Berkeley County Order Book 5.

BRUN13- Brunswick County Order Book 13. 

BRUNOB14- Brunswick County Order Book 14.

C- Peter Wilson Coldham, American Loyalist Claims, vol 1 (Washington, D.C.: National Genealogical Society, 1980).

CARRINGTON- Library of Virginia, Letters and Documents Received in the Governor’s Office 1776-1782, Letter from Paul Carrington, Bartholomew Dandridge, Peter Lyons, and James Mercer to the Governor, including list of persons condemned by the General Court.

Chalkley- Lyman Chalkley, Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia (National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, 1912), 3 vols.

CVSP1- William P. Palmer, Calendar of Virginia State Papers, vol 1 (Richmond: Superintendent of Public Printing, 1875).

DARM- Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, followed by volume and page number (e.g. 93:659)

FMCRWR- Library of Virginia, Fincastle & Montgomery Counties: Revolutionary War Records, 1775-1783, p 22, Accession 24278, Barcode 1118855.

GASKINS- Proceedings of Northumberland County Court Martial, Sept 1780, signed by County Lieutenant Thomas Gaskins; Library of Virginia Record Group 3 (Executive Papers of Gov Thomas Jefferson), Call Number 44393.

GENCOURT1- Library of Virginia, Extracts from Minutes of the General Court, Richmond, “Part of a collection of letters and other documents received in the Governor’s Office during the period June 29, 1776-Nov. 30, 1784,” online catalog system number 000510068.

HAL9- Halifax County Order Book 9. 

HAL10- Halifax County Order Book 10.

HEN9- Hening, Statutes at Large.

JAMESON- Library of Virginia, Executive Papers of Acting Governor David Jameson, “List of Refugees from Princess Anne and Norfolk Counties Confined for Treason,” 29 Nov 1781, Misc Reel 2969.

KEGLEY- Kegley, Mary B. and F. B. Kegley, Early Adventures on the Western Waters (Orange, Va.: Green Publishers, 1980), vol 1.

LANC15- Lancaster County Order Book 15.

LANC16- Lancaster County Order Book 16.

LEV- Levinson & Levinson, Rockingham County, Virginia Minute Book 1778-1792, Part 1.

LOI86- Library of Virginia, Record Group 4, Virginia Land Office, Inventory Entry 86 (“LOI 86”), Military Certificates from the Virginia Land Office 1786-1876, 38 microfilm reels, arranged alphabetically. 

LOUISA- Louisa County Order Book 1774-178.

LVA- Library of Virginia.

M881- National Archives and Records Administration, M881 [Microfilm Series 881], Compiled Military Service Records.

MARTIN- Library of Virginia, John K. Martin Collection 1777-1907, Accession 12, Business Records Collection.

MCCC- Library of Virginia, Montgomery County Commonwealth Causes, barcode 1048926.

MCDONNELL-Michael A. McDonell, The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press), 2007.

McIlwaine- H. R. McIlwaine, Proceedings of the Committees of Safety of Cumberland and Isle of Wight Counties, Virginia 1775-1776 (Richmond, Superintendent of Public Printing), 1919.

MVG- Magazine of Virginia Genealogy.

NGSQ- National Genealogical Society Quarterly, followed by volume and page number (e.g. 4:434).

NORTHUMOB- Northumberland County Order Book 1773-1783.

PETERS-  Peters, Joan W. The Third Virginia Regiment of Foot 1776-1778: With Flags Flying and Drums Beating. Westminster: Heritage Books, 2008.

PITT3-Pittsylvania County Order Book 3.

PITT4-Pittsylvania County Order Book 4.

PITT5- Pittsylvania County Order Book 5.

ROCKING- Rockingham County Minute Book 1778-1792.

ROSE- Library of Virginia, Online Catalog System Number 000509350, a 2 Dec 1781 return of William Rose, Keeper of the Public Jail, of persons in the public jail, charged with disaffection to the state, as being refugees, and with bringing a pretended flag into Rappahannock River.” This is “Part of a collection of letters and other documents received in the Governor’s Office during the period June 29, 1776-Nov. 30, 1784.”

SCRIB3- Scribner, Robert L. Revolutionary Virginia: the Road to Independence, vol 3. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1977.

SCRIB4- Scribner, Robert L. and Brent Tarter. Revolutionary Virginia: the Road to Independence, vol 4. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978.

SCRIB5- Scribner, Robert L. and Brent Tarter. Revolutionary Virginia; the Road to Independence, vol 5. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979.

SSVA- The Southside Virginian, followed by volume and page number (e.g. 1:93).

SUPREME1- Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, Order Book 1. Library of Virginia Miscellaneous Reel 3966.

Treacy-Karen Wagner Treacy, Montgomery County Virginia Court Orders 1777-1788 From Order Books 1, 2, 3 and Various Other Sources (Athens, Ga.: New Papyrus Publishing), 2014.

VAGEN- The Virginia Genealogist, followed by volume and page number (e.g. 27:191).

VAN- Virginia Appalachian Notes, followed by volume and page number.

VMHB- The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, followed by volume and page number (e.g. 9:13).

WAR4- Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Inventory Entry 218 (“APA 218”), Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia Continental and State Line Lists 1782-1787, aka War 4, misc reel 983. 

WAR20- Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Inventory Entry 229 (“APA 229”), Military Accounts Pension Ledger 1762-1784, aka War 20, barcode 1081452, misc reel 986.

WAR23- Library of Virginia, Record Group 48, Auditor of Public Accounts, Inventory Entry 224 (“APA 224”), Militia and Contingent Account Book 1776-1778, aka War 23, barcode 1081444, misc reel 986, alphabetical by surname.

WAR25- Library of Virginia, Receipts for Various Services Performed 1777-82, aka War 25, misc reel 987. 

WAR30- Library of Virginia, Record Group 78, General Assembly, Council Warrants 1781-1783, aka War 30, call number 38057, misc reel 987.

WAR48- Library of Virginia, Record Group 2, State Government, 1834 Journal of the Commissioner of Revolutionary Claims, aka War 48, Accession 36935, misc reel 989.

WBGJ[followed by volume number, 1-6]- Library of Virginia, Record Group 2, State Government, Journals of the Williamsburg Public Store 12 October 1775-12 July 1780. Six volumes, arranged chronologically.