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"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barbara Vines Little" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
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
> PO Box 1273
> Orange, VA 22960
> phone/fax 540-832-3473 (evenings)
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