Tax lists included all taxable people or things. You will find variation if
slaves were being rented (most contracts called for the person renting the
slave to pay the tax) or if people moved in or out---a father usually paid
taxes on a child living at home or someone else in the household---servant,
hired hand or relative--but not always.

Your differences in the way the tithables were listed is probably because
you were looking at a tithable list when the names of the slaves were
included and a tobacco list when they were not.

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Subject: [VA-HIST] Clarification on a Question


> I'm going to try to rephrase my previous question. Hope someone can clear
it
> up for me. I appreciate it. Thanks in Advance,
> Marlene
> My question is on the Tithables that was listed in the book on VIRGINIA
> TITHABLES FROM BURNED COUNTIES,      by Robert F. & Isobel B. Woodson.
> THIS IS MY QUESTION. Do these tithables include the slaves also or only
the
> white tithables. for 1773 & 1774?
> The reason I am asking is because in the later years 1782 & etc. they also
> list the slaves in the total tithables. I am trying to determine if there
are
> more children for this person.
> I strongly suspect it includes the total tithables including slaves over
16
> years of age also as the law required from 1748 and I can not find a
reference
> in the book if this is TOTAL Tithables or is it only Total White Male
> tithables.
>
> Thanks to Everyone in Advance
>
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