Thank you. This was a Mount Airy in Surry County probably somewhere on
the James River.

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Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Salt taken by the mob


There is a Mount Airy, Pittsylvania County, Virginia and a Mount Airy,
Charles City County, Virginia.  Also, Mount Airy Plantation was owned by
the Tayloe family, and was near Warsaw in Richmond County, Va.


Best regards,
John Maass
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/maass2/
"Nec Aspera Terrent"
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From: "Barbara Vines Little" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 11:24 PM
Subject: Salt taken by the mob


> At the end of Surry County Order Book, 1775-1785 are 49 numbered pages

> containing the Faulcon & Company accounts of goods & freight shipped
through
> Mount Airy between 15 December 1776 and November 1779.
> In these accounts are a number of references to "salt taken by the 
> mob" including an entry on 13 Aug 1777 "for Jacob Faulcon's Expences 
> at Suffolk in settling for the Salt taken by the Mob."
>
> Is there anyone who knows what incident this refers to?
> Does anyone know where Mount Airy was?
>
> Thanks
>
> Barbara Vines Little, CG
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> Orange, VA 22960
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