We have yet to come across similar tobacco census lists from other localities in collections found at LVA.

Greg Crawford
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Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] New blog: "Tobacco Census"

On 5/22/13 1:48 PM, "Helms, Bari (LVA)" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Today's Out of the Box features Accomack County's Census of Tobacco 
> Plants, 1725, 1728-1729, created to comply with the Tobacco Acts of 1723 and 1729.
[snip] 
> http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2013/05/22/tobacco-
> census-f ixing-the-frauds-and-mischiefs-of-the-tobacco-trade/

The blog entry states:
"Accomack County (Va.) Census of Tobacco Plants, 1725, 1728-1729, consists of three lists of tobacco plants created to comply with the Tobacco Acts."

Are there extant tobacco plant census lists for other counties in Virginia??
Or, are these surviving lists for Accomack unique?

C. Etter

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