| Petitioner | Date | Description | Reel# | Box | Folder |
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| Freeholders & Inhabitants of Manchester | 1778/10/09 | Ask for an act enlarging the power of the trustees of the town of Manchester in order to bring suit against persons who fail to comply, or who may commit any trespass on the streets, or lands appropriated for the use of the town. (See Oversized) | 39 | 316 | 5 |
| Freeholders & Militia Men | N.D. | Ask that part of the ordinance which exempts overseers from serving in the militia may be repealed. | 40 | 56 | 104 |
| Freeholders of King William Parish | 1789/11/12 | Protest against the petition for an act directing the sale of glebe lands with the money from the rents applied to the relief of the poor. (See Powhatan Co.) | 39 | 54 | 48 |
| Freeman, Rebecca | 1828/12/10 | Asks for a law divorcing petitioner from her husband John Freeman. Includes transcript of record. (See Oversized) | 40 | 316 | 19 |
| French, S. Bassett | 1848/03/06 | Captain of the 1st Regiment of Cavalry attached to the 23rd Regiment of Infantry of the line asks that cavalry officers may be relieved from attending trainings of officers of the line, but may be required to train as cavalry. | 40 | 56 | 70 |
| French, S. Bassett | 1850/01/02 | Ask for an increase in salary as attorney for the Commonwealth in the Circuit Court of Chesterfield. Includes same petition from Samuel Taylor & others. Also includes statements. | 40 | 56 | 80 |
| Frisby, Nathaniel & Stoddart, Luther | 1785/11/25 | Manufacturers of tobacco and hemp in the town of Manchester ask that a heavy duty be placed on cordage and other articles manufactured from hemp to prevent its importation from foreign parts. | 39 | 54 | 30 |
| Goode, John B. | 1832/12/20 | Jailor for Chesterfield County who kept a runaway named Sam and another named Billy asks for an act making an appropriation for the amount of the balances due petitioner. Includes reports & affidavits. | 40 | 56 | 9 |
| Goode, Robert | 1782/05/28 | Sheriff of Chesterfield County asks for relief from a judgment against him for failure to transmit the tax payments for 1780 due to Arnold's raid. | 39 | 54 | 17 |
| Goode, William | 1814/11/17 | Asks for a law giving him the privilege of erecting a toll bridge across Falling Creek. | 39 | 55 | 26 |
| Graves, Arthur & Beasley, Benjamin | 1784/05/29 | Inspectors of tobacco at Warwick Warehouse ask that the Auditors be directed to settle their accounts and issue warrants to them for their salaries. | 39 | 54 | 22 |
| Gregory, Richard | 1848/02/15 | Manumitted by the will of Mary Cox and asks to be allowed to remain in the Commonwealth. | 40 | 56 | 65 |
| Gregory, Richard | 1849/10/12 | Receipt for papers accompanying the petition of Richard Gregory including sundry certificates of individuals testifying to his character and an extract of a will. (See 1850 Jan. 12) | 40 | 56 | 79 |
| Gregory, Richard | 1850/01/12 | Asks for a law granting him unconditional permission to remain in the state. Includes certificates. | 40 | 56 | 81 |
| Harrison, B. E. | 1852/01/26 | Asks for the removal of free negroes from the Commonwealth. Includes letter to Committee of Propositions & Grievances. | 40 | 56 | 87 |
| Haskins, Robert & Elam, James | 1818/12/12 | Executors of James Foulkes ask for a law authorizing them to sell so much of Foulkes' real estate. Includes copy of will. | 39 | 55 | 43 |
| Haskins, Thomas & Others | 1795/11/24 | Executor of the will of Creed Haskins asks for an act authorizing George Markham, Thomas Watkins, George Evans, or petitioner to sign, seal, and execute one or more conveyances for transferring a fee simple estate to the purchasers. Includes will, etc. | 39 | 54 | 87 |
| Haskins, William & Others | 1794/11/19 | Creed Haskins died in 1791 leaving the residue of his estate to petitioners including a small tract of land which was sold to Thomas Watkins. Petitioners ask for the confirmation of the title to Watkins and the money invested in the trustees. | 39 | 54 | 80 |
| Hatcher, Samuel & Edward | 1786/12/06 | Inspectors of Tobacco at Osbornes Warehouse ask for an increase in salary. | 39 | 54 | 35 |
| Hatcher, Samuel & Edwards, Peter | 1784/06/12 | Inspectors at Osbornes Warehouse from October 1780 until October 1781 ask that the Auditor be directed to grant them warrants on the Treasurer in specie for as much as their account was worth at the time of settlement. | 39 | 54 | 24 |
| Haxall, Richard Barton | 1836/01/21 | Proprietor of three tracts of land on the James River at Bermuda Hundred asks for a law authorizing him to erect wharves at his own expense and to demand reasonable rates of wharfage. | 40 | 56 | 26 |
| Heth, John & Others | 1836/01/22 | Ask for the incorporation of a company to construct a railway from the Chesterfield Coal Mines to some point on the James River above Bosher's Dam. (See Richmond City) | 40 | 56 | 27 |
| Holland, Peter | 1798/12/10 | Asks for compensation for a loss of a hogshead of tobacco he deposited at Rocky Ridge Warehouse in December 1792. Includes receipts & order of recommitment. | 39 | 54 | 100 |
| Holt, Betty | 1792/10/13 | Widow & executrix of David Holt asks for an act authorizing the sale of land for the payments of his debts with surplus assigned to the purchase of negroes. | 39 | 54 | 71 |
| Horner, Louisa | 1842/02/23 | Asks for the passage of an act to authorize the school commissioners to settle her account for the tuition of poor children for the year 1840. Includes account. | 40 | 56 | 51 |
| Howlett, James & Others | 1828/12/10 | Ask for a law incorporating a company and appointing trustees for an academy. | 40 | 55 | 74 |
| Inhabitant ants of Chesterfield, Goochland, & Henrico | 1818/12/28 | Ask for an act establishing a public ferry from the lands of William Trabue in the county of Chesterfield near the United States Arsenal to a point directly opposite on the Henrico shore. | 39 | 55 | 48 |
| Inhabitants | 1782/05/22 | Ask that the debt law relative to issuing executions may be repealed except against such people that have been distressed by the enemy. (See Oversized) | 39 | 316 | 6 |
| Inhabitants | 1784/05/22 | Ask that the warehouses at Rocky Ridge, accidentally destroyed by fire, be rebuilt. | 39 | 54 | 20 |
| Inhabitants | 1785/11/14 | Protest against the bill obliging the inhabitants of the Commonwealth to pay the teachers of the Christian religion. | 39 | 54 | 28 |
| Inhabitants | 1785/12/09 | Ask that order may be taken for the disposal of the property of every denomination of Christians to the discharge of public debt. | 39 | 54 | 31 |
| Inhabitants | 1786/11/24 | Ask for the repeal of the act for incorporating the Episcopal Church in Virginia or so much as vests the church in the glebe lands & churches purchased at public expense. | 39 | 54 | 34 |
| Inhabitants | 1787/11/20 | Ask that the church property be sold or divided among the parishioners. | 39 | 54 | 42 |
| Inhabitants | 1790/11/08 | Ask for a law to change the court day to the second Monday of the month. | 39 | 54 | 59 |
| Inhabitants | 1790/11/13 | Resubmission of a petition asking that the church property be sold or divided among the parishioners. | 39 | 54 | 61 |
| Inhabitants | 1791/10/31 | Ask for a public ferry on the lands of Baxter Folkes opposite the old glebe lands in Henrico County. | 39 | 54 | 65 |
| Inhabitants | 1792/10/03 | Ask for the repeal of the law passed in 1777 "entitled an act to prevent forestalling, regarting, engrossing, and public vendues" as prohibits the selling of goods, wares, & merchandise at public vendue. | 39 | 54 | 69 |
| Inhabitants | 1792/10/11 | Ask that they may be annexed to Powhatan County. | 39 | 54 | 70 |
| Inhabitants | 1793/11/05 | Ask for an act adding part of Chesterfield County to the county of Powhatan. | 39 | 54 | 75 |
| Inhabitants | 1796/11/19 | Ask for an act to remove the courthouse nearer the center of the county and to purchase 25 acres for the necessary public buildings. | 39 | 54 | 92 |
| Inhabitants | 1796/11/21 | Ask that the act not pass to move the courthouse to the center of the county. | 39 | 54 | 94 |
| Inhabitants | 1797/12/21 | Ask that part of Chesterfield County be annexed to Powhatan County. | 39 | 54 | 99 |
| Inhabitants | 1802/12/17 | Ask for an amendment to the law establishing a turnpike from Manchester to Falling Creek on the Buckingham Road. | 39 | 54 | 108 |
| Inhabitants | 1803/12/09 | Ask that the law incorporating the Manchester Turnpike Company be so amended as to empower the company to run the road to the most eligible place in Falling Creek to connect it with the Buckingham Road. | 39 | 54 | 111 |
| Inhabitants | 1803/12/13 | Ask for a law authorizing an inspection of flour at Pocahontas. | 39 | 54 | 113 |
| Inhabitants | 1803/12/28 | Protest against the petition of inhabitants of Petersburg & Dinwiddie for a turnpike road from Petersburg to Manchester. | 39 | 54 | 115 |
| Inhabitants | 1803/12/30 | Ask that no new law may be passed as to the direction of the Manchester Turnpike and that the road may be completed according to the law now in force. | 39 | 54 | 116 |
| Inhabitants | 1804/12/06 | Ask for a law compelling the Director of the James River Company to communicate their canal with tide-water in the manner expressly declared in the act of incorporation. (See Oversized) | 39 | 316 | 12 |
| Inhabitants | 1804/12/19 | Ask for a law explanatory of the act entitled an act to establish a turnpike between the town of Manchester and Falling Creek on the Buckingham Road. (See Oversized) | 39 | 316 | 13 |
| Inhabitants | 1818/12/23 | Ask for a law incorporating a company to establish a constant, safe, and easy navigation, by canal or otherwise, on the south side of the James River, from the head of the Falls to tide water. | 39 | 55 | 47 |
| Inhabitants | 1818/12/23 | Protest against the petition of the Manchester Turnpike Company to increase their tolls. | 39 | 55 | 46 |
| Inhabitants | 1825/12/22 | Ask for an act incorporating a company to construct a railroad from the coal mines in Chesterfield County to the James River and a canal direct on or level to shipping points on tide water. | 40 | 55 | 67 |
| Inhabitants | 1827/12/13 | Ask for the repeal of the act of the last session changing the time for holding Amelia Superior Court. Includes order. | 40 | 55 | 70 |
| Inhabitants of Amelia, Powhatan, Chesterfield, & Dinwiddie | 1787/10/20 | Against petition asking for the removal of mills on the Appomattox River for benefit of fishing and navigation. (See Amelia Co.) | 39 | 54 | 39 |
| Inhabitants of Amelia, Powhatan, Chesterfield, & Dinwiddie | 1787/10/29 | Against petition asking for the removal of mills on the Appomattox River for benefit of fishing and navigation. (See Amelia Co. - Oversized) | 39 | 54 | 40 |
| Inhabitants of Campbell, Buckingham, Cumberland, Powhatan, & Chesterfield | 1816/12/13 | Ask for an act establishing a turnpike road from the town of Lynchburg to the upper end of the Manchester Turnpike. (See Cumberland Co. - Oversized) | 39 | 55 | 35 |
| Inhabitants of Chesterfield & Henrico | 1789/11/14 | Ask for protection from speculators looking to deprive the inhabitants of their advantages in obtaining large quantities of fish in the James River. (See Henrico Co.) | 39 | 54 | 52 |
| Inhabitants of Chesterfield & Manchester | 1817/12/04 | Ask for a law incorporating a company to establish a constant, safe, and easy navigation, by canal or otherwise, on the south side of the James River, from the head of the Falls to tide water. | 39 | 55 | 37 |
| Inhabitants of Chesterfield, Henrico, & Richmond City | 1817/12/03 | Ask for an act authorizing a company to form a turnpike road from Richmond City to Osbornes in Chesterfield County. (See Henrico Co.) | 39 | 55 | 36 |
| Inhabitants of Goochland & Henrico | 1812/12/05 | Ask for a law declaring Tuckahoe Creek a public Highway and to incorporate a company to make it navigable. (See Henrico Co.) | 39 | 55 | 16 |
| Inhabitants of Henrico, Chesterfield, & Richmond City | 1816/11/19 | Ask for a turnpike road from Richmond to Petersburg with a branch extended to the banks of the James River opposite Warwick in the county of Chesterfield. Also for a ferry on the lands of William Randolph. (See Oversized) | 39 | 316 | 17 |
| Inhabitants of King William Parish | 1789/11/12 | Ask for an act appointing trustees to convert the glebe lands to the use of King William Parish. (See Powhatan Co.) | 39 | 54 | 49 |
| Inhabitants of Manchester | 1779/10/25 | Ask for a law preventing hogs and goats from running at large in the town of Manchester. | 39 | 54 | 6 |
| Inhabitants of Manchester | 1784/11/10 | Ask for a law establishing an inspection of tobacco on the lands of Jacob Rubsamon in the town of Manchester. | 39 | 54 | 25 |
| Inhabitants of Manchester | 1789/11/16 | Ask that the act to prevent hogs from running at large in the town of Manchester not pass. | 39 | 54 | 55 |
| Inhabitants of Manchester | 1790/10/27 | Ask for the establishment of inspections of tobacco in the town of Manchester on the lots belonging to the estate of Edward Johnson. | 39 | 54 | 56 |
| Inhabitants of Manchester | 1805/12/11 | Ask for a law incorporating a company for the purpose of uniting the upper navigation of the James River with the tidewater on the Chesterfield shore to be called the Manchester Canal Company. | 39 | 55 | 1 |
| Inhabitants of Manchester | 1808/12/14 | Ask for an appropriation of $600 towards the advancement of a Classical & Mathematical Seminary in the town of Manchester. | 39 | 55 | 6 |
| Inhabitants of Manchester | 1813/12/14 | Ask for a law authorizing the citizens of the town of Manchester to raise by lottery a sum of money sufficient to improve the streets. (Filmed as Folder 20.) | 39 | 55 | 19 |
| Inhabitants of Manchester | 1817/12/20 | Ask for a law authorizing and directing an annual election of trustees for the town of Manchester with an increase of power. Includes resolutions of meeting. | 39 | 55 | 40 |
| Inhabitants of Manchester | 1825/12/23 | Ask for the incorporation of a company called the Manchester James River Canal and Railroad Company to improve the river from the Chesterfield Coal Mines to tide water bellow the falls at Manchester. | 40 | 55 | 65 |
| Inhabitants of Manchester & Richmond | 1816/12/02 | Ask for a law repealing the act requiring inspection of manufactured tobacco. (See Oversized) | 39 | 316 | 18 |
| Inhabitants of Manchester Parish | 1778/11/03 | Ask that the vestry be dissolved and the inhabitants empowered to elect another vestry for Manchester Parish. | 39 | 54 | 3 |
| Inhabitants of Richmond, Manchester, and the Neighboring Country | 1827/12/10 | Ask for a law incorporating a company to establish a railroad from the Chesterfield coal pits to the tide water opposite Rockets. | 40 | 55 | 69 |
| Inhabitants of the South Side of the James River | 1816/11/19 | Ask for a law incorporating a company to establish a constant, safe, and easy navigation, by canal or otherwise, on the south side of the James River, from the head of the falls to tide water. | 39 | 55 | 30 |
| Inhabitants on the South Side of the James River | 1794/11/22 | Ask for an act incorporating trustees to raise a sufficient sum of money either by subscription or lottery for the purpose of removing all obstructions in the James River through the falls. | 39 | 54 | 82 |
| Inspectors at Rocky Ridge & Cary's Warehouses | 1779/11/10 | Ask for relief from the law for discontinuing salaries and substituting a tax on tobacco. | 39 | 54 | 7 |
| Jackson, William L. | 1855/12/18 | Certificate of William L. Jackson, Second Auditor, regarding the school quota for the year 1851 forfeited to the Literary Fund in 1853. | 40 | 56 | 100 |
| Johnson, James | 1797/12/11 | Ask that the Commonwealth's right in the estate of Edward Driver be transferred to petitioner in order to recover a debt. Includes resolution. | 39 | 54 | 96 |
| Jones, John | 1796/11/18 | Resident of Cumberland County asks for compensation for his loss of a hogshead of tobacco destroyed in the fire at Rocky Ridge Warehouse in Manchester. | 39 | 54 | 91 |
| Justices | 1781/12/15 | Ask for an appropriation to rebuild the courthouse and prisons which were used by troops under Col. William Davies and destroyed by the enemy commanded by Gen. Phillips. Includes certificate. | 39 | 54 | 14 |
| Kennan, Robert | 1800/12/23 | Asks for compensation for two hogsheads of tobacco destroyed by the fire at the Rocky Ridge Warehouse in Manchester. | 39 | 54 | 106 |
| Kerr, William | 1824/12/15 | Nephew of William Kerr, native of Scotland who died in 1813, asks for a law releasing to him and his heirs the Commonwealth's title to land in the town of Manchester. Includes declaration of naturalization, escheat, & affidavit. | 40 | 55 | 58 |
| Lancaster, John A. & Others | 1839/01/11 | Owners of a farm with extensive water power ask for an act of incorporation for a company for general manufacturing purposes, for the culture of the mulberry, and for the production of silk to be called the Spring Hill Manufacturing Company. | 40 | 56 | 41 |
| Leprad, Andrew | 1785/12/10 | Asks for relief from a resolution passed by the Assembly which prevents the Register of the Land Office from granting him his warrant for lands he paid for into the Treasury. | 39 | 54 | 32 |
| Maitland, David & Robert | 1795/11/12 | Owners of several hogsheads of tobacco destroyed by the fire in the Rocky Ridge Warehouse in Manchester ask for compensation for their loss. | 39 | 54 | 84 |
| Maitland, David & Robert | 1797/12/09 | Owners of several hogsheads of tobacco destroyed by the fire in the Rocky Ridge Warehouse in Manchester ask for compensation for their loss. | 39 | 54 | 95 |
| Mallory, Garland A. | 1850/01/31 | Protest against the petition of his wife Harriet E. F. Mallory asking for a divorce. | 40 | 56 | 82 |
| Manchester Fire Company | 1844/01/29 | Ask for a law granting members of the Manchester Fire Company the same immunities & privileges that have been granted to fire companies in Richmond. | 40 | 56 | 57 |
| Manchester Turnpike Company | 1803/12/09 | Ask that the law incorporating the Manchester Turnpike Company be so amended as to appoint three commissioners to view the ground and point out the most proper course to run the Manchester Turnpike road. | 39 | 54 | 112 |
| Manchester Turnpike Company | 1828/01/31 | Ask for a toll for their turnpike road in order to indemnify them for their diminished gains as a result of the establishment of the railroad from the mines of Falling Creek. | 40 | 55 | 72 |
| Manchester Turnpike Company | 1830/12/21 | Ask for a law authorizing them to charge and receive toll on all subjects liable to pay toll by the general turnpike law. | 40 | 55 | 84 |
| Manchester Turnpike Company | 1833/01/24 | Ask for a law putting them on the same footing of the General Turnpike Law. Includes comparative view of tolls. | 40 | 56 | 10 |
| Manchester Turnpike Company | 1833/12/31 | Protest against the proposed reduction of its tolls. Includes memo of tolls received from 1822 to 1833, table of dividends, & statement of capital stock. | 40 | 56 | 19 |
| Manchester Turnpike Company & Others | 1802/12/23 | Ask for a change in the law regarding the location of the turnpike road from Manchester to Falling Creek on the Buckingham Road. | 39 | 54 | 110 |
| Markham, Bernard & Murchie, John | 1789/11/14 | Proprietors of the Rocky Ridge Warehouses ask for relief from the charge by the Auditor of Public Accounts for the warehouses erected in 1783 and subsequently destroyed by fire. | 39 | 54 | 51 |
| Mayo, Abigail | 1839/02/09 | Receipt for a petition from Abigail Mayo and a petition from citizens of Manchester complaining of the high tolls on Mayo's Bridge. | 40 | 56 | 46 |
| McCannico, Jared, Jr. & Company | 1803/12/22 | Asks that the escheator of the lands formerly belonging to Edward Driver be empowered & directed to pay petitioner a sum of money with interest owed him. | 39 | 54 | 114 |
| McRae, Allen | 1824 | Contains court record, deed, certificate, & notice related to the contested election of Allen McRae by Edward Anderson. | 40 | 55 | 59 |
| Members of the Court & Bar | 1832/01/05 | Ask for an amendment to the act passed in the last session to provide clerks a more reasonable & adequate compensation for their services. | 40 | 56 | 2 |
