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Re: SHARECROPPER?
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"H. B. Gill" <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:46:27 -0400
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The term "share cropper" did come into use until 1923.  THe fact that
someone paid personal property tax does not mean he did not own land.  If
he owned land he would pay land tax and personal property tax.
H. B. Gill

At 11:53 AM 6/19/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear VA Hist:
>
>In 1792 in Berkeley County my ancestor is listed as paying Personal
>Property tax. He is listed as a S cropper, there are 2 whites and 4
>horses.
>
>1. Is an S cropper a sharecropper? Can a sharecropper own land?
>2. If he paid personal property tax, does that mean that he did NOT own
>land?
>
>Thanks for any help you can give me.
>
>Diana Kercheval Bennett
>
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