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Re: New blog: "Tobacco Census"
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"Barbara Vines Little, CG, FNGS, FVGS" <[log in to unmask]>
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Many of the early (pre 1770s) "tithable" lists are actually tobacco 
lists. Most list tithables (which is how they were paid) rather than 
tobacco plants (there is one for Goochland that lists the number of 
tobacco plants). They are usually found in loose court papers in the 
fall and unhappily LVA does not identify the source of the lists that 
they remove and place in their tithable collection. Notations regarding 
succors or succor hunting and / or the omission of the names of slaves 
or other tithables is usually a clue. As far as I know the Accomac / 
Northampton (see Bell's publication on Northampton tithables) lists are 
the only ones that are early enough to count half-tithables.

Barbara Vines Little, CG, FNGS, FVGS

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On 5/29/2013 9:32 PM, Oakett wrote:
> 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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