Are these records within the group that someone can copy individual images onto a flash drive? Thanks, Janice A -----Original Message----- 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 [log in to unmask] Please visit the Library of Virginia's Web site at http:/www.lva.virginia.gov To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html