There is a Mount Airy, Pittsylvania County, Virginia and a Mount Airy, Charles City County, Virginia. Also, Mount Airy Plantation was owned by the Tayloe family, and was near Warsaw in Richmond County, Va. Best regards, John Maass http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/maass2/ "Nec Aspera Terrent" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara Vines Little" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 11:24 PM Subject: Salt taken by the mob > At the end of Surry County Order Book, 1775-1785 are 49 numbered pages > containing the Faulcon & Company accounts of goods & freight shipped through > Mount Airy between 15 December 1776 and November 1779. > In these accounts are a number of references to "salt taken by the mob" > including an entry on 13 Aug 1777 "for Jacob Faulcon's Expences at Suffolk > in settling for the Salt taken by the Mob." > > Is there anyone who knows what incident this refers to? > Does anyone know where Mount Airy was? > > Thanks > > Barbara Vines Little, CG > PO Box 1273 > Orange, VA 22960 > phone/fax 540-832-3473 (evenings) > [log in to unmask] > > CG is a service mark of the Board for Certification of > Genealogists®, used under license by board-certified associates who meet > genealogical competency standards prescribed for those programs. > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions > at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html