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Re: Virginia Land Tax List Entries, 1790s
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Craig Kilby <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 19 Oct 2015 16:43:02 -0400
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Barbara raises one good possibility. My first thought, Wes, was just what you said, and that these were leased lands. A third thought was (not likely) the people making the films kept recopying a previous list. I discounted that idea because I know you would easily have caught such an error.

Craig Kilby
Kilby Research Services
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> On Oct 19, 2015, at 4:31 PM, Barbara Vines Little <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Sounds to me like it's a case of arrears of back taxes either because they just realized it should be taxed or to pay back taxes to stop a forced sale.
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> Barbara Vines Little, CG, FNGS, FVGS
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> On 10/18/2015 10:45 AM, Wesley Pippenger wrote:
>> In reviewing the Virginia Land Tax lists for Prince George County between
>> 1782 and 1793 (so far), I notice that a dozen or so people are not listed in
>> the general alphabetical run with their acres rather at the back as an
>> alteration, but for numerous years in a row.
>> 
>>  
>> Why would they be listed separately for several years in a row and up to
>> five years running.  Could it be that their tax was based not on a transfer
>> or ownership but a lease or other right?  I'm trying to figure out why they
>> are treated differently.  Wes.
>> 
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>>  
>> Wesley E. Pippenger
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>> Little Egypt
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