>First, I'm very puzzled by the fact that the early entries
>say there are no white males over age 16.  My recollection
>from looking at PP tax lists from other counties is that they
>usually say at least "1" (for the head of household).  Why
>would it say "0" in that column when John was living?

One explanation could be that he owned taxable property in Rockingham County
from 1799-1802, but lived somewhere else. I am researching a man from
Lynchburg who appears in the Amherst County personal property tax books as
"0 white males" because he owned slaves and livestock at a farm in Amherst
County, but he, as a free white male, appears on the Lynchburg books.


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