Page 5 - . . . Samuel Gist left a considerable estate when he returned to Great Britain during the War. For decades following the war, he petitioned he government for restoration of his considerable fortune. This list was one item found among his many papers.
Quit rents are fees paid by Virginia landowners to the King of England or to Lord Fairfax if the land fell within his proprietary. Extant quit rent rolls are rare in Virginia, especially outside the Fairfax Proprietary. This roll is among the last of such rolls, since few were collected after 1763 when the Stamp Act was enacted. For those researching in colonial Hanover or even post Revolutionary War, it might be wise to at least check the papers in Gist's claim for possible memorials from Hanover residents.
There are several inconsistencies. At the beginning of the roll the unnamed sheriff states that the roll is for 1760; however, there is a column for 1763 which appears to be the year that these quit rents were collected. Also, next to some individuals names are years with acreage next to the years. This appears to be the last year that the quit rents were collected for that person and the
amount of acreage taxed. Several of these are for 1761 or 1762. The list is not an original list but one that [page 6] either Gist or an agent re-copied. In several cases the agent could not definitively decipher a surname and consequently listed two spellings. Fortunately, for researchers, there are also a fair number of females on this list. This list can be compared to the land tax list in 1782 to help determine changes that may have occurred in the two decades after this quit rent roll was created.
Mr Peter Lyons Virga Man'r July4 [faint] Aug 29 1768 Cocks Land 377 Acres
A true and perfect rent roll of all the lands in the County of Hanover paying quit rents to his Majesty for the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty so far as I [blank] Sheriff of the County am able to discover
- Page 8 - Christopher Butler 100
- Susanna Butler 300
- Samuel Butler 100
- George Cooke 200
- Benjamin Cooke 200
- Bradley Cocke 165
- John Cocke 401
- William Cocke 251
- George Cocke 350 purchased by SG & meas
- Bowler Cocke 600
- Bowler Cocke Junr 3210
- Page 9 - Thomas Denton 60
- Richard Foster 140
- Page 10 - John Henry 630
- The R.S. Patrick Henry 500, 130
- Patrick Henry Jun 343
- Page 13 - Robert Priddy 450
- George Priddy 300
- Henry Robinson 620
- John Robinson, Esq 3866
- Page 14 - Henry Taylor or Tyler 50
- Bartlet Taylor 95
- James Taylor 130
- William Taylor 502
- George Taylor 331, 50
- William Taylor 1061, 50
- Henry Taylor x 50
Page 39 - George William Fairfax returned to England in 1773 and died in 1787. Records in this ledge begin for the most part in 1788 and readers will notice that there were multiple references to distress fees and replevy bonds. It appears that many of the lease holders withheld payments of rent following Fairfax's death forcing the executors to take legal action to obtain payment.
Distress: A common law right of landlord to seize a tenant's goods and chattels in a nonjudicial proceeding to satisfy an arrears of rent. Common law allowed executor(s) and administrator(s) of any person to whom rent was due and no paid at the time of the owner's death to distrain as long as the lands, tenements, etc. continued in the possession of the tenant who ought to have immediately paid the rent and thus was behind in payment to the testator in his life.
Destrain/distrain: Seize someone's property to obtain rent or other money owed.
Replevy: (in reference to the action of replevin) to redeliver goods which have been distrained, to the original possessor of them on his giving security to prosecute an acion against the distrainor for the purpose of trying the legality of the distress.
Replevy bond: Guarantees that the plaintiff in an action of replevin will have the property in the same condition to abide the decision of the court.
Page 54 - Faquier County
Page 55 - p. 166 Simon Cornwell, 2655 acre tract will to Samuel Athaws. Lot No. 21, 100 acre lease. Arrears on replevey bond for 1786; interest & distress fee; To rent, land tax, 1787-1789. By cash for replevey, 1789. By cash in Part of rents due Samuel Athaws.
Information in these entries was drawn from the index with any addtional descriptive information found in the balances forward (from Ledger E) added. . . . The index to Ledger E is incomplete and thus Ledger E was skipped in this series. . . .
. . . this is simply an index to the account holders and that additional information about purchases, and sometimes relationships, occupations and residences and even references to payments to other individuals can be found in the actual accounts. . . .
[Falmouth is located in Stafford County on the north bank of the Rappahannock across from Fredericksburg.]
- Page 303 - Linton, John Jun'r, Carolina 1
- Page 304 - Morgan, John, brother of Charles, Fauquier, 1
- Morgan, Valentine, Culpeper, 1
- Page 305 - Morgan, Morris, a waggoner, Frederick, 12
- Morgan, Benjamin, a waggoner, Culpeper 13, 170
- Morgan, Daniel, Frederick, 13
- Page 309 - Robertson, Doctor Andrew, Lancaster 86
- Robison, James, merch't Falmouth 113
- Robertson, Doctor George, Fauquier 196
- Stribling, Taliaerro, Frederick, 6, 138
- Page 310 - Shepherd, Andrew, merch't, Orange 9 [194]
Page 323 - Pittsylvania County was established in 1767 from Halifax County and included the counties of Henry and Patrick until 1776. Identifying the origin of its inhabitants can be difficult. Tucked away in the loose records are numerous small papers which often provide clues to the origins of early settlers. Flat-filed, but unidexed these records are only available at the Library of Virginia and the information is only located by tediously reading each item. The following items were selected from the files based upon the fact that they indicated a relationship, listed neighbors or referenced other counties or states. . . . Places referenced include the James River, Petersburg, and the counties of Amelia, Augusta, Charlotte, Chesterfield, Essex, Halifax, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Prince Edward, Warwick and Orange County, North Carolina.
Folder 2, Judgments 1769 - August? (miscellaneous scrap)
Page 326 - [Foster vs Fitzgerald] - Mr. Wm Fits Garel D'r [debit/debt] to Francis Foster 1769 [account not copied] £ 2.14.0, Charlotte County ss the 22d of July 1769, The above acc't sorn [sworn] to before me Tho's Bedford
Little, Barbara. "1773 Tithable List Pittsyvania County," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 54, No. 1, 2016, p. 37+. [Pittsylvania County Tithables, 1767, 1770, 1773-1774, Acc#25861, BC1114827, Tax & Fiscal Records, Local Government Records Collection, Archives & Manuscripts, LVA, Richmond.]
Page 37 - Pittsylvania County was created in 1767 from Halifax. At its inception and at the time this list was created, it included all of Patrick and portions of Henry County. It bordered North Carolina and was traversed by the Carolina Road. It was also home to many transient ancestors. They came, they stayed for a while. Perhaps, they even purchased land, but soon they were off to greener pastures. Tracking them is difficult. Hopefully, this list, the first in a series that we plan to publish, will help researchers locate that lost ancestor - the one born in Virginia, whose presence we have been unable to document.
List of Tithables in Pittsylvania C'oy June[?] 10th 1773 taken by the Subscriber
- Mark Foster, Cha's Foster 2
- Page 38 - William Breeding 1
- [signed] Peter Copland
Little, Barabara. "Augusta County Delinquents 1771, 1772," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 48, No. 4, 2010, p. 257+. [Augusta County Delinquent & Insolvent Tax Lists, 1771, 1772, Tax & Fiscal Records, Local Government Records Collection, LVA, Richmond]
Page 257 - Botetourt County was cut off from Augusta County in 1770 reducing the size fo Augusta by over half; however, it still included the counties in the District of West Augusta (Monongalia, Ohio and Yohogania and their progeny), Alleghany, Bath, Highland, Page, Pendleton, Pocahontas, Rockbridge and Rockingham. . . . The reference "twice returned" indicates that the individual was listed twice; "no distress" suggests that the individual was capable of paying but had not done so. It is unclear whether the lists are for the whole county. . . .
A List of George Mathews Delinquents for the Year 1771
- Page 258 - James Foster not found 1
Little, Barabara. "Augusta County Delinquents," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 49, No. 4, 2011, p. 339+. [Augusta County Delinquent & Insolvent Tax Lists, 1792, Tax & Fiscal Records, Local Government Records Collection, LVA, Richmond]
In 1792 Augusta County had attained its present boundaries having lost the last portion of its territory to Bath County in the previous year. Of the 115 people not paying taxes that year thirty-six were listed as insolvent, thirty-five as not found, thirteen as removed. . . . The remaining 15 were additional tithables in various household. It is unclear how many of those "not found" had actually removed to an unknown location. What these records suggest is that some of our ancestors may well have remained in an area after hey have disappeared from the record. It also suggests that a comparison of delinquent tax lists with the original tax lists over a period of time might provide a clearer picture of those individuals who were living on the edge of insolvency.
A List of Insolvents Returned by Ja's Bell DS To the overseers of th[torn]
- Geo Brookes 1 not found
- Ja's Bruce 1 Remo'd
- Page 340 - Jno Robison 1 Rockingham
- William Russell 1 Removed
- Robert Wilson 1 not found
- Henry Wilson 1 insol
Little, Barabara. "Augusta County Quit Rents," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 51, No. 2, 2013, p. 130+. [Account Book of Rent Rolls, Lands Sold, Quit Rents, etc., Preston family papers, Mss 1P9267 1fa2, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond] Continued from Volume 48, No. 1.
Earlier transcriptions from this record book covered land in Beverley manor and the Borden tract. This section includes land described as King's land, i.e., land granted directly to individuals rather than the land in the areas granted to William Beverley and Benjamin Borden and then sold by them to others. . . .
- Page 132 - Cloyd, David 1860 (acres) G
- Page 135 - McDowell, Samuel 340 G
- McDowell, James 400 G
- McDowell, Samuel 400 G
- McDowell, Samuel 400 & 300 - 700 [total] G
- Page 136- McDowell, James 400 Good
- McDowell, James 400 [Good]
- Ogle, Thomas 67
- Robinson, David 167
Page 59 - The following entries are from the cash accounts and provide little more than the names of individuals who paid cash for purchases and the page number of their account. The researcher faced with the loss of records in Caroline and the loss of early Spotsylvania and Culpeper order books and loose papers should view this as an opportunity to place an ancestor in the area in a specific time frame, locate women, and occasionally even establish a dead by date when there is a reference to an individual's estate. . . .
Cash, p. 131 [Debit Side], 1749/50
- 6 Feb'y To Bennett Beasley, p. 218
- Page 60 [credit side] - Feb. 17 By Capt. William Taliaferro p. 162
- Page 61 [credit side] - March 5 By Moses Hunt p. 186
- March 6 By John Beasley p. 29
- March 12 By Mary Beasley p. 93
- Page 62 - [credit side] March 13 By Mary Beasley p. 98
- March 13 By James Beasley p. 93
- Page 63 - [debit side], 1750 - April 19 By Mary Beasley p. 78
- April 30 By John Beasley p. 89
- Page 64 - May 4 By Maj'r Winston Taliaferro p. 162
- [debit side] 1750 - May 8 To Bennett Beasley p. 218
- May 9 To Cha's Beasley joiner p. 248
- Page 65 - [credit side] May 8 By James Beasley p. 193
- May 12 By Cha's Beasley p. 248
- May 17 By Mary Beasley p. 98
Page 277 - Rockbridge County was created in 1778 from Augusta and Botetourt counties. In 1785 a small part of Botetourt west of Camp Mountain was returned to Botetourt and in 1888 a small part of Botetourt was transferred to Rockbridge. Only two of the tithable lists for 1778 are known to have survived - No. 2 and No. 5. Since only tithables are noted, these are most likely county tax lists. State taxes were charged on "all manors, messuages, lands and tenements, slaves, mulatto servants to thirty one years of age, horses, mules and plate . . . riding carriages, neat cattle and tithables above the age of twenty-one.
[torn] list of Tithables in Capt [torn] company for the Year 1778
- Col'o Sam'l McDowell 8
- John Robertson 1
- Page 278 - Elizabeth McDowell 4
- Matthew Robertson 1
- James Robertson 1
Page 279 - [verso] List of Tithables 1778 No. 2 Copied & Ex'd, Recorded & Examined
Rockbridge County July 14th 1778 - A List of thibles in Cap't John Paxtons & Gilmores Companey
- William Wilson 1
- John Dreden 2 [could this be Breden?]
- John Wilson 3
- Page 280 - Hugh Galbreth 1
- David Cloyd 2
- Epraim Wilson 1
[verso] Jn'o Gilmores list of Titha, Copied Ex'd No. 5, Recorded & Examind, A List of thibles John Gilmore.
Page 17 - Unlike earlier specific tax lists from this series, this one appears to be a list of those who have not paid or for whom errors have been found. The certificate tax enacted in May 1782 was titled "An Act for Calling in and redeeming certain certificates." Repealed in 1787, it was enacted in order to pay off the state's indebtedness created through the issuance of certificates for the payment of the military and the confiscation of goods to support them.
A List of Delinquent Taxes for the County of Frederick for 1783 - columns: name, specie tax, certificate tax
- Page 18 - delinquents Wm Taylor's for 1783
- James Dove - 0.10.9 - 0.10.9
- John Taylor - 1.9.3 - 1.9.3
- William Wilson - 0.13.3 - 0.13.3
- Walter Denny (error) - 0.14.6 - 0.14.6
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