Barbara, are they on microfilm at the library? I looked in the ring notebook of their microfilm reel number index and under the seperate book for Personal Property Tax, they only show starting in 1871 for both Henrico and City of Richmond.
> On August 21, 2017 at 9:30 AM Barbara Vines Little <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
> Eric, the personal property tax lists for Henrico County begin in 1782
> and those for the City of Richmond begin in 1787. These are not filed in
> a single alpha series. The earlier series runs to roughly 1850 and is
> filed alphabetically; they are followed by the later ones filed in two
> series one through roughly 1870 filed alphabetically and the second
> chronologically by year and then alphabetically by jurisdiction
> (counties first then cities).
>
> Barbara Vines Little, CG, FNGS, FUGA, FVGS
> PO Box 1273
> Orange, VA 22960
>
> 540-832-3473
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>
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>
> On 8/18/2017 5:33 PM, Eric Huffstutler wrote:
> > I do know that at least one time he owned 12 slaves and 9 by the time of his death. What you said rang a bell because, the property that our house was built on was purchased from a person with the last name Adams. I also ran across an interesting entry about a baptism of a child owned by Adams with the last name of Wills.
> >
> > I did stop by the state library to see if the word Captain showed up on the land tax records but it did not, nor did I see anyone else with one either. The "personal property" tax records start with 1871 for both Henrico County and Richmond City. I checked 1817-1821 for Land Tax and it only lists his proper name and "est" in 1821, which coincides with his 1820 death.
> >
> > Thank you for all of the leads for me to investigate. It is looking more and more like the Capt. title may be honorary?
> >
> > Eric
> >
> >> On August 18, 2017 at 3:16 PM sheri huerta <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Wills's manumission is certainly an interesting factor in your search, so
> >> it would be worthwhile to learn more about the particular circumstances of
> >> Johnson's manumission. There were many reasons for manumitting an enslaved
> >> person, sometimes explained, but often not.
> >>
> >> A manumission could be the result of:
> >> - the completion of a long-term financial transaction (I will pay $100 over
> >> a period of time to get my freedom)
> >> - the result of a will (Charles Wills acting as administrator, confirming
> >> the bequests for a deceased owner or heir)
> >> - the confirmation of the end of a term slavery agreement (Nancy Johnson
> >> shall be held in slavery until the age of 35...) since the age of 35
> >> appears in contracts, deeds and wills as a common age for granting freedom
> >> after the ending of the most productive enslaved physical or reproductive
> >> labor OR to achieve a process of gradual emancipation
> >> - if she was of mixed-race heritage, born to a free or indentured white
> >> mother and held to indenture or apprenticeship by law, the deed could
> >> provide confirmation that she had attained the age of 35 and was released
> >> from the indenture / apprenticeship.
> >>
> >> In addition there were religious and personal reasons for manumissions.
> >>
> >> My point is that manumission could derive from various financial, legal, or
> >> economic considerations that had little to do with benevolence or
> >> anti-slavery sentiments while patrol & militia service were part of a civic
> >> responsibility and a means of attaining social status in a neighborhood.
> >> All this adds to the complexity of life and family and community
> >> relationships in the slave-holding South.
> >>
> >> Sheri Huerta, PhD
> >>
> >> On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 12:24 PM, Eric Huffstutler <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Wow, Sheri... I had never thought or even knew about this happening.
> >>> Definitely a different direction to search but... while doing deed searches
> >>> for someone, I ran across one in 1804, where he emancipated a 36 year old
> >>> slave woman named Nancy Johnson.
> >>>
> >>> Eric
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On August 18, 2017 at 10:41 AM sheri huerta <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Eric,
> >>>>
> >>>> Is there a chance that Wills served as a local [slave] patroller? I've
> >>>> studied patrol records from 1800 to 1860 in northern Virginia and county
> >>>> patrol appointments would designate a "Captain" and sometimes list a
> >>> group
> >>>> of men to serve under the patrol captain (listed as Privates). Patrollers
> >>>> typically were assigned from men already listed in the local militia
> >>> rolls.
> >>>> If patrol appointments are not available in county records, check the
> >>>> annual county levy for payments made to patrollers or court loose papers
> >>>> for the actual patrol records listing time served and / or payments
> >>>> received.
> >>>>
> >>>> Depending on the time and place, a captain might be paid at a higher rate
> >>>> per tour / hour than the privates and the difference in payments for the
> >>>> same number of tours served can help differentiate the ranks. County
> >>> court
> >>>> minutes might also include the names of men ordered to serve as
> >>> patrollers
> >>>> for a specified term or persons authorized to form a patrol. If Wills was
> >>>> in Richmond by 1800, he could have served in some patrol or militia
> >>>> capacity during the Gabriel uprising, thus establishing his leadership or
> >>>> militia service in the local area. If he served as a patroller and rose
> >>>> through the ranks to the position of an appointed captain, this could
> >>> also
> >>>> help explain the local origins for his title of Captain.
> >>>>
> >>>> Sheri Huerta, PhD
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 12:27 AM, Eric Huffstutler <[log in to unmask]
> >>>>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Barbara, thank you for the additional information. My problem is that,
> >>>>> Charles Wills was a prominent citizen who owned property, businesses,
> >>>>> houses including a mansion, and up to at least 12 slaves but, died
> >>> around
> >>>>> age 44 without a known registered will. I did run across his probate
> >>>>> inventory and the children fought over property so, the estate was not
> >>>>> completely settled until 9 years after his death Even so, I have yet to
> >>>>> locate any kind of death notice for him. Also, he and his family
> >>> attended
> >>>>> St. John's Church about 3 blocks away from the main house (which we own
> >>>>> built 1809), but there was vandalism concerning their cemetery burial
> >>> book
> >>>>> that covers the years he would have been buried (1820) and, many older
> >>>>> headstones were destroyed years ago due to the church having been
> >>> abandoned
> >>>>> at one time. The only records I have run across for him are tax records
> >>>>> starting in 1801 here in Richmond. deeds, his property inventory.
> >>> Then, the
> >>>>> wedding announcements for two of his three daughters (he also had 2
> >>> sons
> >>>>> who were prominent in their own right, and had portraits of them done
> >>> by
> >>>>> James Westhall Ford), which in 1820 and another after death 1828
> >>> mentions
> >>>>> him as Captain.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Was it common practice for people to willie nillie assign people ranks
> >>> in
> >>>>> local militias? I suspect he may have been in Camp Holly Springs or the
> >>>>> Richmond City militia?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Eric
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On August 17, 2017 at 10:08 PM Barbara Vines Little <
> >>>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Don Wilson mentioned the appointment of militia officers. There are
> >>>>>> occasional record books that are found in various county records or
> >>> in
> >>>>>> archives; however, these are random examples. Militia records were
> >>>>>> normally not placed with the county clerk for safekeeping. It is
> >>>>>> possible that a petition or letter might be found in the governor's
> >>>>>> papers, but this would be extremely rare. You might try a local
> >>>>>> newspaper if one exists. Barring the absence of a record showing a
> >>>>>> militia appointment, I would assume that it was an honorary title.
> >>>>>> However, unless you can provide the information on when and where
> >>> (the
> >>>>>> specific record) you located the information that he was addressed
> >>> as a
> >>>>>> Capt., anything anyone provides is simply a guess.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Barbara Vines Little, CG, FNGS, FUGA, FVGS
> >>>>>> PO Box 1273
> >>>>>> Orange, VA 22960
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 540-832-3473 <(540)%20832-3473>
> >>>>>> [log in to unmask]
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> CG, Certified Genealogist, is a service mark of the Board for
> >>>>> Certification of Genealogists, used
> >>>>>> under license by board-certified genealogists after periodic
> >>> evaluation;
> >>>>> the board name is
> >>>>>> registered in the US Patent & Trademark Office.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On 8/17/2017 11:20 AM, Eric Huffstutler wrote:
> >>>>>>> Barbara... someone mentioned that there are records of peacetime
> >>>>> militia in Virginia that may give some insight? His title seems to
> >>> show up
> >>>>> by the time he died in 1820 as one daughter married that year and
> >>> mentions
> >>>>> "Capt" Charles Wills and another daughter in 1828 that mentions 'the
> >>> late'
> >>>>> Capt Charles Wills.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Eric
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On August 17, 2017 at 11:10 AM Barbara Vines Little <
> >>>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>>>>>>> I suspect that this was a honorary title appended primarily
> >>> because of
> >>>>>>>> age and local social standing.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Barbara Vines Little, CG, FNGS, FUGA, FVGS
> >>>>>>>> PO Box 1273
> >>>>>>>> Orange, VA 22960
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> 540-832-3473 <(540)%20832-3473>
> >>>>>>>> [log in to unmask]
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> CG, Certified Genealogist, is a service mark of the Board for
> >>>>> Certification of Genealogists, used
> >>>>>>>> under license by board-certified genealogists after periodic
> >>>>> evaluation; the board name is
> >>>>>>>> registered in the US Patent & Trademark Office.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On 8/17/2017 10:52 AM, Wilson, Donald L wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Eric - I see the militia records you cite. I don't see a record
> >>> of
> >>>>> him as captain. Could you tell us exactly where you find him with that
> >>>>> appellation?
> >>>>>>>>> If he were captain of a local militia company, there should be a
> >>>>> record of his appointment/commission among the court orders of his
> >>> county
> >>>>> or city. If he were a sea captain, we would expect him to have spent
> >>> many
> >>>>> years at sea, rising through the ranks, before he would be
> >>> commissioned. He
> >>>>> would have a much higher status than a militia captain. A list of naval
> >>>>> captains during the War of 1812 (until Feb. 1815) can be found at
> >>>>> https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/organization-
> >>>>> and-administration/historical-leadership/naval-officers-of-
> >>>>> the-war-of-1812/captains-of-the-war-of-1812.html. No one named Wills
> >>>>> there.
> >>>>>>>>> Donald L. Wilson, Virginiana Librarian
> >>>>>>>>> The Ruth E. Lloyd Information Center
> >>>>>>>>> for Genealogy and Local History (RELIC)
> >>>>>>>>> Prince William Public Library System
> >>>>>>>>> Bull Run Regional Library
> >>>>>>>>> 8051 Ashton Avenue, Manassas, VA 20109-2892
> >>>>>>>>> 703-792-4540 <(703)%20792-4540>
> >>>>>>>>> www.pwcgov.org/library/RELIC
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>>>>>>> From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
> >>>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Eric Huffstutler
> >>>>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 11:24 PM
> >>>>>>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
> >>>>>>>>> Subject: Capt. Charles Wills - War 1812 question
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Sending the below query for help again since I received no
> >>>>> responses... thank you!
> >>>>>>>>> "Capt" Charles Wills - War 1812 question
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> I have a bit of a puzzle that someone here may be able to help
> >>> with
> >>>>> or, have access to various databases on those who served in the War of
> >>> 1812.
> >>>>>>>>> Charles Wills, born c.1776 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia and
> >>>>> died 1820 in Richmond, Virginia. I see what appears to be him entered
> >>> and
> >>>>> left as rank "Private" in both COMPANY: 2 REG'T (BALLOWE'S) VIRGINIA
> >>>>> MILITIA. and COMPANY: 19 REGIMENT (AMBLER'S) VIRGINIA MILITIA.
> >>>>>>>>> The problem is that he is later seen as "Captain" Charles Wills
> >>> by
> >>>>> the time he died. I am seeking when or where this occurred? I know
> >>> there
> >>>>> were local militias such as Camp Holly Springs and Richmond City
> >>> Militia
> >>>>> but unaware if he served in them post war? A few people believe he may
> >>> have
> >>>>> been a ship captain?
> >>>>>>>>> Any help greatly appreciated!
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Eric
> >>>>>>>>>
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