This issue contains 4 articles with generally useful information, including the first part of a list of African-American Men paying taxes in the 1867 Fluvanna County personal property tax list.
After the Civil War, all men over 21 years of age had to pay a personal property tax. The minimum personal property tax was $1 per year, unless you had an exemption, such as age. The tax assessors must have run into problems in 1866 trying to locate African-American men who hadn’t paid their taxes that year because most of them didn’t own land. There were also men with identical names, so there was a problem knowing which man of that name had paid his taxes.
Starting in 1867, Albemarle. Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, and Nelson Counties began to record where these African-American men could be found. Other counties besides these five likely recorded locations also, but so far these are the ones I personally know of. …
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Contents of the Summer 2020 issue:
- The Dwelling at Snowden
- African-American Men in the 1867 Fluvanna County (VA) Personal Property Tax Books (A-G)
- Marriage Announcements in the Daily Progress (Charlottesville, VA), March 1895
- The Estate of Henry Pendleton of Louisa County, Virginia.
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