Are these records within the group that someone can copy individual images onto a flash drive? 

Thanks,
Janice A



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From: Tarter, Brent (LVA) (LVA) <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Tax of 1815


The Personal Property Tax returns for nearly all of Virginia's cities and 
ounties for 1815 are in the Library of Virginia in Richmond, and they have all 
een microfilmed and can be borrowed on Interlibrary Loan.
The state government put thousands of militiamen into the field during the War 
f 1812 to supplement the small U.S. Army, and the state had to supply them, pay 
or arms, ammunition, horses, wagons, and everything else and then hope for 
eimbursement from the Feds later. That's why the one great need for lots of 
evenue.
To pay the expenses of the war, the state imposed a very long list of taxes on 
tems of personal property that one year, alone. It is by far the best way to 
et a sense of how many families had items of personal property subject to the 
ax. Many of the items taxed were probably beyond the ability of poor people to 
cquire.
Brent Tarter
he Library of Virginia
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Please visit the Library of Virginia's Web site at http:/www.lva.virginia.gov



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