What do the tax lists say for those same properties? They taxed everything so should say what they were taxing.
Rachael Gullatt (a wodow) 1780s Fairfax Co. lists a house and one other building. Her husband John Gullatt was a blacksmith so I have always assumed the other building was a smithy.
Clay
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