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From: "Family Tree Bookshop" <>
Subject: Re: [LDR] More Bits
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:00:57 -0500
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Dear Janet:
You might be correct in your story concerning Jefferson's checking
books out --but I believe the story is that after the burning of Washington
DC, Jefferson donated his own personal library to replace that which was
lost in the fire and thus the core of our national library is Jefferson's
own.
Good to hear from you and hope all is well on the other side of the
bay.
<<<Neil>>>
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Subject: Re: [LDR] More Bits


> In a message dated 2/4/02 3:19:04 PM EST, writes:
>
> << And some tales of the Court in Virginia, ca 1640, including a fella
> who was both a woman and a man.
>
> http://www.law.du.edu/russell/lh/alh/docs/virginiageneralcourt.html >>
>
>
> Craig's reference above is just the tip of the iceberg of what can be
found
> in the Minutes of the General Court of Virginia (1979 LVA version, with
extra
> notes, etc.). There is an incredible amount of stealing, trespassing,
etc.,
> etc. in the records.
>
> Reference from LVA, FYI. 1924 version from website..
> H[enry] R[ead] McIlwaine (1864-1934), ed, Minutes of the Council and
> General Court of Colonial Virginia, 1622-1632, 1670-1676, with Notes and
> Excerpts from Original Council and General Court Records, into 1683, Now
> Lost (Richmond : The Colonial Press, Everett Waddy Co., 1924).
>
>
> So many of Virginia's early records were lost. THESE only survived
because
> our esteemed President Thomas Jefferson had borrowed them from the Library
of
> Congress, so when it was burned in the War of 1812 they were safe...This
is
> what I've been told...and God bless everyone who is late on returning
their
> library books!
>
> This volume only recently came to my attention and I (and the library
staff)
> was disconcerted that the Alexandria VA public library couldn't find their
> copy of the first edition 1924.
>
> Thanks Craig.
>
> Couisin Janet
>
>
>
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