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Subject:	Re: "levy free"
From:	"Barbara Vines Little, CG, FNGS, FVGS" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:42:55 -0400
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The estate was paying a head or poll tax on them and had requested that 
they no longer be taxed probably because of age although it could have 
been some other incapacity.

Barbara Vines Little, CG, FNGS, FVGS

PO Box 1273
Orange, VA 22960
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540-832-3473

CG, Certified Genealogist, is a service mark of the Board for 
Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board certified 
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On 3/14/2012 10:40 PM, Jon Kukla wrote:
> A friend brought me an entry from an 1805 order book for Campbell 
> County that states:
>
> "Ordered, that Betty, Nancy and Phillis Negroes belonging to the 
> estate of John Doe, deceased, be set levy free."
>
> Her question is, in this context, what does "levy free" mean?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Jon Kukla
>
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