| JOURNAL OF RESEARCH - November 2000
11/3/00-11/5/00
Spent 12 hours searching Archives and Manuscripts catalog Virginia State Library for legislative materials of the Virginia Assembly. Also searched for materials relating to the Potomac River, and began a preliminary search (not completed) for unpublished private papers of principle people involved in the Compact of 1785 and persons prominent in Va. government at that time (ie. commissioners, governors, and members of the Va. House of Burgess).
Search for legislative materials canvassed all records in the Virginia State Library Archives and Manuscript collection relating to the Va. General Assembly. I did not find any sort of loose legislative papers or debates in the General Assembly. For a detailed list of all subjects searched, see vastatelibrary. For a summary of materials that may be useful, see VSLmaterials.
11/8/00 10:00-15:00
Meeting Attorney General's office with Adam Snyder, Ed Papenfuse, Ron Hoffman (by telephone), and Sam Brainerd to review case and outline our research strategy.
11/17/00 7:30-12:00; 17:30-19:00
Began searching Hening's Statutes at Large for Virginia legislation concerning the Potomac. Finished vols. 5 (1738-1748) and 6 (1748-1755). See HENINGS record for more details.
11/18/00 9:30-14:40, 15:30-17:00
Finished Henings vol. 7. Spent some time exploring Potomac website, updating my journal, and editing and uploading my research notes from Virginia state Library.
Consultation with Sam Brainerd to create links to uploaded files.
Began Henings vol. 8
11/19/00 9:00-11:00; 16:00-18:30
Continued working on Henings vol. 8. Made modifications to Henings vol. 6 & 7 (included laws on pilots which I had previously overlooked).
11/20/00 18:45-19:45
Finished Henings vol. 8 and uploaded file, and added new records describing laws of interest.
11/25/00 9:00-12:00, 12:30-15:30
Continued working on Hening's statutes, vols. 9-13.
11/26/00 9:00-14:00, 15:45-19:00
Continued working on Hening's statues, vols. 9-13. |
