From the following statements from "Sunlight on the Southside", it seems that
Mr. Bell is saying that there exists more years of tithables of Lunenburg Co.
than he covered in his above book. Does anyone know if the years other than
those he covered do indeed exist and if so where they migh be located and
accessed? They are not listed as being among those microfilmed (per LVA
county microfilm records). And I personally  have not found them at the
Lunenburg Courthouse.
Thanks, Jim.


  << SUNLIGHT ON THE SOUTHSIDE

               THE TITHES

   The lists of tithes of Lunenburg County for the earlier years are almost
a unique inheritance, as such records in many of the counties have not
survived. Lists for 1748, 1749, 1750, 1751, 1752, 1764, 1769, 1772, 1773,
1774, 1775, 1776 and 1783 are embraced herein.

...... for example, as that in Lunenburg County
the original lists of property owners, taypayers, land owners, etc., more
or less complete for the period from 1748 to 1783, and after, are preserved
in quite good condition. These lists, in general, show the name of
thetaxpayer, to whom the tithes were chargeable, and gave usually the names
of the tithes in such fashion as to enable one to eliminate the names of
slaves, leaving  {page 41}  thus the name of the taxpayer, usually the head
of a family, together with the names of male children old enough to be taxed,
and the names of other white persons charged as tithes, such as overseers and
indenture servant......

It would be interesting to present a complete transcript or abstract of
all available lists of tithables for every year. But such a plan has not
been deemed feasible for this work. Rather the plan, in general, pursued
here, is to endeavor to give the equivalent of a census, at intervals close
enough to each other, to present a fairly complete list of the tax-paying
population from time to time.
  In the early decades of the county's existence, there was much moving
about. Immigrations and emigrations into and from the territory were
numerous; and lists from year to year would, in all probability, enable a
closer and more certain check of all names, than would lists taken at
longer intervals. Still the duplication of names, from year to year, would
be so enormous as to probably more than offset any countervailing
advantage. >>

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