Kudos to Greg and his staff for their work on sources like these. There is a near colony wide summary list by county for 1724 , but without the owners/workers names, cited in both Kulikoff, Tobacco and Slaves p. 108 and Walsh Motives of Honor, Pleasure and Profit p. 364-65, both of which discuss the state of the tobacco industry at the time. So more lists were created and perhaps will surface in some odd places or buried among other county loose papers as suggested--Mick
Michael L. Nicholls
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Dept. of History
Utah State University
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On May 30, 2013, at 10:01 AM, Crawford, Greg (LVA) wrote:
> I was a bit too hasty. There is one for Lancaster County dated 1727. Here's the link to the finding aid.
>
> http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=lva/vi03229.xml
>
> Let me add that the Accomack County tobacco census records (as well as tithable lists and other colonial era Accomack records) were found in the loose court records of Accomack County stored in the attic of the courthouse.
>
> For more information go here - http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2011/04/27/treasure-in-the-attic-accomack-county-colonial-era-records/
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> Our staff did an amazing job examining, identifying, and repairing these "lost" treasures so that they could be used for historical and genealogical research.
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> Greg Crawford
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> We have yet to come across similar tobacco census lists from other localities in collections found at LVA.
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> Greg Crawford
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> "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Oakett
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> 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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