The usual reason for not being charged with taxes/levies were widows, age, disability or minor children.
Was Hatcher Levy a slave? The Luenburg Co. case seems to set someone free either a slave or someone who was apprenticed but likely if a slave was aged or an apprentice who had become disabled.
Clay
--- On Wed, 7/29/09, Harold Gill <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] A definition, please.........
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Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 12:20 PM
Exoneration in this case means removal of a burden or charge.
HBG
----- Original Message ----- From: "nelhatch" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: [VA-ROOTS] A definition, please.........
HATCHER website: http://hatcherfamilyassn.com
HALL DNA project: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher/hall/HDNAtest.htm
"One of the tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a brutal gang of facts" - La Rochefoucauld
I was recently sent the following information:
"Bedford County List of Lands Exonerated, Nov. 1814"
Jere'h Hatcher, 280 ac., taxes for 1789, 1780, 1794, Ben Turner
Edward Hatcher's estate, 250 ac., 1790. No. Lazenby.
Jere'h Hatcher, 208 ac. [sic], taxes 1791-3, 1802, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13 Ben Turner.
I also have in my files the following:
Lunenburg Co, VA
July Court 1755
Hatcher Levy free On the Petition of William Hatcher and for Reasons appearing he is Exonorated from the Payment of Public & County Levies for the Future.
I'm assuming "exonerated" means excused from paying taxes but certainly am not sure.
Can someone explain the meaning as defined in colonial times and give reasons why someone in these individual instances would be "exonerated"?
Thank you,
Nel Hatcher
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