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Page 311 - Unlike the vast majority of the merchant claims, this list was created between 1 November 1775 and 29th March 1776 when it was sworn to before John Watkins, a justice of the peace for Surry County. The maker of the list, John Stewart, was apparently the factor for the Cabin Point store operated by Mess'rs Dunmore Blackburn & Company, merchants of Glasgow. The list is found among the claims made in 1784, 1788 and 1789 by Robert Gilmour for compensation for losses incurred as a British subject. He states that he was a principal partner in Logan Gilmour & Co. of Norfolk and Logan and Dunmore & Co. and had incurred heavy losses. Heavily in debt in Britain, Gilmour had lost his private fortune and had brought ruin to his other partners. He does not explain why the list was compiled. Although used to support his claim for losses, the list was obviously not compiled for that purpose and indeed appears not to deal with either company with which he notes an involvement. Perhaps a transfer of ownership occurred between the creation of the list and Gilmour's first claim some eight years later.
Caing Point Ledger C
- Col. John Cocke, folio 1, good debt 75.4.0
- Page 312 - Lemuel Cocke, folio 5, good 102.5.3 3/4
- Page 313 - William Cocke Partain, folio 32, good 6.15.9 3/4
- Henry Cock, folio 41, good 31.18.7 3/4
- William Wilson, folio 43, good 9.-.6
- Richard Cooke, folio 45, good 44.15.--
- Pleasant Cocke, folio 46, good 26.4.6 1/4
- Page 314 - Thomas Cocke Brunswick folio 59, good 40.15.
- Henry Cooke, folio 60, 37.19.3/4
- Page 315 - John Tyler folio 78, good 6.-.3 1/2
- Thomas Beazly folio 83, good 4.15.6
- Page 316 - Littleberry Robinson, folio 97, good 8.5.11 3/4
- Capt. Thomas Cocke folio 102, good 16.16.1 1/4
- Page 317 - Allen Cocke, folio 118, good 10.18.4
- Page 318 - John Cocke Sen'r folio 143, good 6.10.--
- Page 319 - List of Debts due by Cabin point Store taken 1st November 1775
- James Robinson, folio 286, good 34.13.3 1/4
- Page 320 - William Cocke folio 84, good 4.15.10 1/2
- James Taylor, folio 140, good 14.-.3 3/4
- Errors & Omissions Excepted / Signed / John Stewart
Page 321 - [The attestation below is spread across this & the following page.]
Cabin Point Surry County 29th March 1776 - This day John Stewart came before me John Watkins one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace for said County & made oath that the foregoing pages with the above ammendments contain a Just List of the Balance due by each respective Person to Mess'rs Dunmore Blackburn & Co'y Merchants in Glasgow as appears by the Books kept by said Stewart at their Store at Cabin Point on or before the first day of Nov'r 1775 Amounting to Eleven thousand five hundred & seventy one Pounds eleven Shillings & Eight pence farthing Current Money of Virginia & Five Hundred & Twenty four pounds Seven Shillings & sixpence Sterling money of Great Britain in Accounts, notes and Bonds & and other Specialties exclusive of interest on the Specialties. Given under my hand this day & Years above mentioned. /Signed/John Watkins
List of Debts -
- To Amount of debts by List - 1181.6. 3/4
- To Wm Duncan & Co'y for Lemuel Cock - 149 - -.6.6 £1181.12.6 3/4
- due to the Store 1775 Nov 1 By amount of Debts
- By Allan Cocke Esq'r - 118 - -.1.-
Page 267 - Virginia's few surviving colonial government records can reveal considerable informaiton. Some of them are heavy with statisics and account; some are name lists and other documents useful for genealogical research. The series that begins with this article is a combination of both. . . .
The transcriptions of the documents included in this series of articles are ones that accompanied letters from Governor Francis Nicholson to authorities in London. Those letters are not included in these transcriptions b/c they contain political and administrative history that has been well-studied in many books and articles. The descriptive lists and reports that accompany these letters have rarely been transcribed b/c of their rather dull nature, their somewhat hidden availability, and issues of handwriting and legibility and quality of microfilming. They are not exciting reading, yet they do contain details of importance to many types of research including genealogy. In researchers' ongoing quests to discover details about the lives of their ancestors, the listing of an individual in a government document could provide a missing piece of information, evidence of a longer or [p. 268] shorter life span, a previously unknown official position, and other tidbits absent in the more traditional sources. In addition, many residents of now-burned-record counties are mentioned in these reports, and this reason alone was the initial impetus behind these transcriptions.
One very important colony-wide resource that is essential as a contemporary comparative tool for the documents in this series is Annie Laurie Smith's published set of 1704 quit rent rolls and lists of Northern Neck landowners. These unique lists covering the various counties in the colony have been exceptionally helpful in the interpretation of signatures and/or the handwriting of the documents. A great many individuals whose names appear in the papers transcribed for this series of articles do not, however, appear in them thereby making these transcriptions even more useful. County records, where they still exist and when published, have also been tremendously helpful in the interpretaton of some bizarrely handwritten signatures on documents, in listing county officials, and in untangling names that were written too closely together. The flourishes in the scrip of some signatories in these documents were often quite elaborate and were a challenge to interpretation. Whenever a name was unclear to the transcriber (and to others he consulted for their skill in reading the handwriting of the period), a question mark appears in brackets. Sometimes legibility was affected by very poor quality microfilming of the original documents. Spellings and capitalization are, of course as they appear in the original documents unles sa guess was involved in the order of letters. Some punctuation has been added for clarity of meaning when too many details run together in a document.
Page 274 - Document Three "List of the Parishes, Tythables, Ministers, Ecclesiastics, Officers, &c in Virginia Referred to in Mr Jenning's L:re of 10 July 1702" [Public Records Office, C.O.5/1312, part 2, folio 190--191. Virginia Colonial Records Project film 1607, reel 37, LVA, Richmond]
Rec'd and Read 21st Sept't 1702 - Entered Fol:22?, H23?
[This document contains ten columns of information: County name, acres of land, tithables, burgesses, sheriffs, justices of the peace, escheators, coroners, county clerk, and surveyors. For the purposes of these transcriptions the information for each county is listed under the county name in order as it appears in the columns.]
- Accomack -
- Acres: 200,862
- Tithables: 1041
- Burgesses: Tho: Welburn, Tully Robinson
- Sheriff: [name is obscured by stamped mark]
- JPs: Edm'd Scarborough, Geo. Nich'o H[blotch], [blotch] Bayley, Tho: Welburn, Benja harbrough, Geo. Parker, Rob't [blotch], [?] Moore, Rob't Pitt, Jn'o Watt, Southy Littleton
- Escheator: Edm:d Scarbrough
- Coronoers: Tho: Welburne, Geo: Parker
- Clerk: Jn:o Washburne
- Surveyor: Edm:'d Scarbrough
- Charles City
- Acres: 169,902
- Titables: 1327
- Burgesses: Rich'd Bland & Jn:o Wynn
- Sheriff: Chas: Goodrich
- JPs: Rich'd Bland, Dan:'ll Luellen, [blotch], Robert Bolling, Little'n Epes, Geo: Blighton, Jn'o Hardin[?], [blotch] Rich: Bradford, Jn'o Wynn, Jn'o Terry
- Escheator: Wm Randolph
- Coroners: [blank]
- Clerk: Ben: Harrison
- Surveyor: Rob:t Bolling
- Eliza City
- Acres: 29,560
- Titables: 478
- Burgesses: Wm Wilson, Wm Armistead
- Sheriff: Nich'o Curle
- JPs:Wm Wilson, Ant:o Armistead; [blotch]ailey, Pastho Curle, Wm Lowry, August'n Moore, Colman [blotch], Will'd Bayly, Nich'o Curle
- Escheator: Jno Lightfoot
- Coroners: [blank]
- Clerk: Charles Jenings
- Surveyor: Wm Lowry
- Page 275 - Essex
- Acres: 125,350
- Titables: 1034
- Burgesses: Jno Catlett, Tho: Edmondson
- Sheriff: Tho Merriwether
- JPs: Jno Catlett, Tho Edmonson, [Francis Ta[liafero, Bernard Gaines, Rob't Brooker, Jno Battaile Junr, T[blotch], [James] Broughan, Fra: Gouldman, Rich'd Covinton, Dan:l Dobins, R[blotch], [Thomas?] Meriwether, Wm Tomlin, Benj: Mosely, Sam'l Thacke[r], [blotch Robert?] Coleman
- Escheator: Matt: Page
- Coroners: Jno Catlett, Robt Brookes, Jam: boughan, Rich'd Covington
- Clerk: Fra: Merriwether
- Surveyor: Charles Smith
- Gloucestor
- Acres: 142,479
- Titables: 2626
- Burgesses: Rob't Beverly, Speaker, Mord: Cock
- Sheriff: Pet'r Kemp
- JPs: Jam:s Ransom, Mordecai Cook, [blotch]yat[?], Jno Gwin, Sands Knowles, Rob't Kemp, Rich: [blotch], (--?--) Dudley, Tho: Tod, Thomas Buckner, Ant'o Gregory, Jno Senible, Gabriell Throgmorton
- Escheator: Matt:w Page
- Coroners: [blank]
- Clerk: Robt Beverly
- Surveyor: Miles Cary
- Henrico
- Acres: 146,650
- Titables: 863
- Burgesses: Tho: Cock, Wm Farrar
- Sheriff: Giles Webb
- JPs: Rich'd Cock, Wm Randolph, Peter Wild, Francis Epes, Wm Farrar, Jno Worsham, Tho Cock, Giles Webb, Jno Royall, Jno Bolling
- Escheator: Wm Randolph
- Coroners: Wm Randolph, Wm Cock, Peter Field, Seth Ward
- Clerk: James Cock
- Surveyor: Richard Ligon
- James City
- Acres: 108,336
- Titables: 1193
- Burgesses: Jam:s Bray, Geo: Marable, Robt Beverly
- Sheriff: Tho Cowles
- JPs: Phill: Lightfoot, Henry Duke, Benj Harrison, Phill: Ludwell, Mich Sherman, Jam:s Bray, Tho: Cowles, Hugh Norwell, Wm Edwards, Wm Drumond, Tho: Mountfort, Jno Frank, Dionisius Wright, Jno Geddes, Henry Soane
- Escheator: Jno Lightfoot
- Coroners: [blank]
- Clerk: Chi'c Corb'n Thacker [Chicheley Corbin Thacker]
- Surveyor: Jam:s Ming Jun.
- Isle of Wight
- Acres: 130,490
- Titables: 876
- Burgesses: Hen: Applethwaite, Thos Giles
- Sheriff: Wm Bridger
- JPs: Hen: Applethwaite, Wm Bridger, Geo Moor, Jerem: Exam, Henry Baker, Tho: Giles, Ant:o Holliday, Arth'r Smith, Rob't Key, Hump: Marshall, Jno Pitt, [Jno or Wm?] Bridger, Hen: Applethwaite Junr
- Escheator: Wm Randolph
- Coroners: Hen: Applethwaite, Geo Moore
- Clerk: Char: Chapman
- Surveyor: Thomas Swann
- King & Queen
- Acres: 209,102
- Titables: 1848
- Burgesses: Wm Leigh, Jam:s Taylor, Jno Walker
- Sheriff: Jno Walker
- JPs: Wm Leigh, Rich'd Gregory, Tho: Paulin, John Walker, Rich'd Anderson, Wm Byrd, Jam's Tyalor, Jno Storey, Geo Braxton [p. 276] Hen: Fielding, Jno Wyatt, John Major, Tho Pollit
- Escheator: Matt: Page
- Coroners: [blank]
- Clerk: Rob:t Beverley
- Surveyor: Harry Beverly
- King Wm
- Acres: [blank]
- Titables: 863
- Burgesses: Jno West, Nath. West
- Sheriff: Jno Waller
- JPs: Hen Fox, Jno West, Hen: Madison, Wm Clayborne, Rich'd Gissedge, Martin Palmer, Dan:l Miles, Rog'r Mallory, Tho Carr, Wm Ney; Geo: Dabney, Tho Terry
- Escheator: Matt: Page
- Coroners: [blank]
- Clerk: Wm Aylett
- Surveyor: Harry Beverly
- Lancaster
- Acres: [blank]
- Titables: 926
- Burgesses: Jos. Ball, Wm Fox
- Sheriff: Hen'y Fleet
- JPs: Dav'd Fox, Jo's Ball, Hen: Fleet, Wm Lester, Wm Bell, Alex Swan, Wm Fox, Jno Turbervill, Jno Pinckard, Tho: Martin, Rich'd Ball, Tho Pinckard
- Escheator: [blank]
- Coroners: Dav'd Fox, Jno Turbervill
- Clerk: Jor: Tayloe
- Surveyor: [blank]
- Middlesex
- Acres: 48,200
- Titables: 814
- Burgesses: Gawin Corbin, Edw'n Thacker
- Sheriff: Wm Skipwith
- JPs: Wm Skipwith, Bur: Matt: Kemp, Wm Churchill, Rob't Dudley, Gaw'n Corbin, Fra Weeke, Henry Thacker, Jno Smith, Jno Grimes, Corbin Griffin, Rich'd Robinson, Lovias Micklebrough, Harry Beverle
- Escheator: Matt'w Page
- Coroners: Mat: Kemp
- Clerk: Edw'd Thacker
- Surveyor: Edwin Thacker
- Nansemond
- Acres: 130,500
- Titables: 1030
- Burgesses: Tho: Milner, Dan'l Sullivan
- Sheriff: Tho: Drury
- JPs: Geo: Nosworthy, Tho Swan, Luke Haffield, Fra: Milner, Tho Milner, Cha: Drury, Jno Speir, Wm Hunter, Wm Wright, Rich'd [?]wborn, Hen: Jenkins, James Lockhart
- Escheator: Wm Randolph
- Coroners: [blank]
- Clerk: Dan:ll Sullivan
- Surveyor: Tho: Milner
- Norfolk
- Acres: 110, 534
- Titables: 693
- Burgesses: Rich'd Church, Matt: Godfrey
- Sheriff: Sam'l Boush
- JPs: Tho Hodges, Jam: Wilson, Rich'd Chruch, Sam:l Boush, Tho Willoughby, Jno Hodges, Matt: Godfrey, Wm Langley, Lem:l Mason, Geo mason, James Wilson junr, Matthew Spivy
- Escheator: Wm Randolph
- Coroners: Tho: Willoughby, Sam:l Boush, James Wilson
- Clerk: Lem:l Wilson
- Surveyor: Tho: Milner
- New Kent
- Acres: 175,334
- Titables: 1215
- Burgesses: Wm Bassett, Jos; Foster
- Sheriff: Nich'o Merriwether
- JPs: Jos: Foster, Lancel Bathurst, Wm Basset, Jno Lyddall, Jam:s Moss, Jno Kanup, Tho: Smith, Jno Lewis, Nich:o Merriwether, Geo: Keeling, Jno King, Henry Chiles
- Escheator: Jno Lightfoot
- Coroners: Lanc: Bathurst, Jno Hanup, Nich'o Merriwether
- Clerk: Geo: Clough
- Surveyor: James Minge, Sen
Page 268 - Document Sixteen [England, Colonial Office 5/1312, Part II, folio 294; Colonial Government Records, RG1, acc# 22682, Virginia Colonial Records Project, film 1607, reel 37, LVA, Richmond] - Surry County Militia (third list) ca. November 1701.
Surry County A List of ye of foot Com'ay under ye Comand of Wm Gray; Dragoons taken out of sd Com'ay - Columns: name, guns, swords, powder, shot
- Page 270 - Wm Draper, 1-1-2-8
- Wm Foster signed at bottom
Page 271 - Document Seventeen - Surry County Militia (list four), ca. 1701
Surry County Ss: A List of Cap't Wm Browns foot Companys; ____ taken out of Cap't Brown's Comp. Columns: name, guns, swords, powder, shot
- Page 271 - Wm Cooke, 1-0-1-4
- Page 272 - Valen: Wiliamson 0-0-0-0
- Page 273 - Jno Cooke 1-1-0-0
Page 315 - In May 1777, the Virginia General Assembly passed a statute requiring all free male citizens over the age of 16 to swear an oath of allegiance. The preamble to the Act states: "Whereas allegiance and protection are reciprocal, and those who will not bear the former are not entitled to the benefits of the latter."
The penalty for refusing the oath was severe: confiscation of arms, loss of voting rights, public shaming, forced to attend militia musters without arms, barred from running for or holding any public office, serving on any jury, susing for any debts, and worst of all, buying any land. The penalties were even more severe for non-residents. They were simply to be thrown in jail at once without bail, and either take the oath or give bond with security to leave the commonwealth inmediately.
The statute required that those refusing to take the oath were to be listed; no such list is of record. However, some of the men who took the oath apparently did so grudgingly, as the late date of their taking the oath suggests. . . .
Page 316 - Lancaster County Court 17 July 1777 - Justices present: James Ball, John Berryman, John Taylor, James Ball, Jr.
John Fleet, James Gordon, Thomas Lawson & John Berryman, Gent. are appointed by the Court to tender the Oath or Affirmation for giving assurance of Allegiance to this state & the other American states, in the lower part of this County. John Taylor, Gent. for the parish of Wicomico, and Henry Tapscott, Henry Towles & James Ball Jun'r for the same Purpose in the upper part of this County.
While eight men are named to administer the oaths - and four of them were county justices appointing themselves - only four lists, those administered by Thomas Lawson, John Berryman, Henry Towles and Henry Tapscott, were recorded.
Differences between the original list and the recorded copy are noted by showing both. A forward slash appears between the two with the recorded version following the slash.
List of Thomas Lawson - The dates span from 7/17/1777 to 5/2/1778; this is the only list with subscribers in 1778.
A List of Persons that have Taken the Oath of Allegiance And Subscribed the Test Before Thomas Lawson one of the Magistrates for the Common Wealth of Lancaster County Agreeable to an Act of Assembly for that Purpose. . . .
Georg Robinson, signed 1778 . . .
Lancaster Sct. The Within Taken by me given under my hand and seal this 21st May 1778, Thomas Lawson.
Page 317 - List of John Berryman - A List of Inhabitants of Lancaster County who have taken and subscribed the oath directed by an act of assembly entitled an Act to oblige the free males inhabitants of this state above a certain age to give assurance of allegiance to the same, and for other purposes. Before me one of the Justices of the peace for the said county, appointed by order of court for that purpose.
- Page 318 - Ellmer Doggett, July 31, 1777
- John Doggett, August 9, 1777
- William Doggett [1], August 9, 1777
- William Doggett [2], August 9, 1777
John Berryman, Dec'r 31st 1777
List of Henry Towles - A True List of the Names of them who have taken the Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity before me, the proceeding year. Given under my Seal this 5th day of January 1778. Henry Towles
- Page 319 - Jeremiah Doggett, August 23, 1777
List of Henry Tapscott - This is the only list that provides the language of the oath taken:
I do Swear, or Affirm, that I Renounce & refuse all Allegiance to George the Third King of Great Britain, his heirs and Successors, & that I will be faithful & Bear true Allegiance to the Common Wealth of Virginia, as a free & Independent State, & that I will not at any time, do, or cause to be done, any matter or thing that will be prejudicial or Injurious to the freedom & Independence thereof, as declared by Congress & also, that I will discover & make known, to Some one Justice of the Peace for the said State, all Treasons or Traitorous conspiracies which I know, or hereafter shall know, to be formed against this, or any of the United States of America.
- Page 320 - Aaron Robinson, July 19, 1777
- And'r Robertson, September 23, 1777
Page 303 - In any record group one finds idiosyncracies. Beginning in 1796 Rockingham County commissioners consistely listed the names of the person chargeable with the tax followed by colums for w[hites] 16, B[blacks] 16, B[lacks] 12, H[orses] and the amount due. The following lists show the number lilsted in W16, B16, B12. Information from the other columns is not included. The ownership of stud horses and rate of covering is noted. It is apparent that the number in the W16 does not include the perso charged with the tax. A comparison with the 1795 lists strongly suggest that the column included only those white males between 16 and 21. Other tax booklets had a notation that individuals marked with an X were not chargeable with the tax. The vast majority of those in these lists are either females or estates. An asterisk has been substituted for the X in the following lists.
The Property Book of the East District in the County of Rockingham No. 1, 1800, Jno Black Comr.
- Thomas Brill, 0-0-0
- Vollentine Beesley 0-0-0
- Jeremiah Beesley 0-0-0
- John Brill 0-0-0
- Henry Brill 0-0-0
- Jacob Brill 0-0-0
- Bennet Beesley 0-1-0
- Thomas Cook 0-0-0
- Elijah Cook 0-0-0
- Christopher Comer 0-0-0
- Philip Comer 0-0-0
- George Cook 0-0-0
- Thomas Cook 0-0-0
- Elisabeth Cook* 1-0-0
- John Wolfe 0-0-0
- George Wolfe 0-0-0
- Andrew Wolfe 0-0-0
- Vollentine Wolfe 0-0-0
Rockingham county to wit: I do hereby certify that the within book contains a True copy from the Vouchers returned and filed in my office Given under my hand this 8th day of September 1800 S.W. Williams CRC
Little, Barbara. "Papers of Edward Dixon, Merchant of Caroline County," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 49, No. 4, 2011, p. 261. [Ledger [B] 1749-1750, Papers of Edward Dixon, 2743-1808, MSS18580, mf reel 2, Library of Congress, Washington, DC]
Page 261 . . . available via interlibrary loan from the Library of Congress. The papers span the period from 1743-1808 and are comprised of ledgers, daybooks, rough account (waste) books, a journal, blacksmith accounts and miscellaneous items. Most of the material appears to be related to Edward Dixon's operation of a store at Port Royal in Caroline County. In 1990 and 1991 Ruth and Sam Sparacio published the earliest ledgers covering the period from 1743-1747 and 1747-1752. The volume abstracted here appears to be Ledger B covering the period from 6 November 1749 to 5 November 1750. Most accounts note a balance carried forward from Ledger A and a final balance in this ledger carried forward to Ledger C. Since earlier accounts abstracted by the Sparacios reference a Ledger E, it is likely that these earlier volumes relate to Dixon's father-in-law Thomas Turner's store. While all names have been abstracted, most purchases have been omitted and researchers are urged to consult the originals for additional information.
Page 264 / Page 11 of ledger - Maj'r Jno Taliaferro
- 6 Nov 1749 to your [account] in [Ledger] A [p.] 31
- To cash paid Parker's Tom [p.] 130
- To Cr William Pinn [p.] 169
- To Cr Mr Jno Wren for Inspection &c [p.] 67
- To cash pd your Quit rents [p.] 67
- To 1 lb Tea Green Gea do Mrs Druson 13 Dec'r [p.] 147
- To cr John Wren Jun'r [p.] 66
- To cr Richard Fry Pr not [p.] 119
- 5 Nov 1750 By ballance Carried to L. C
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