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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.<\/p>\nThis 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.<\/p>\n
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\u2019t paid their taxes that year because most of them didn\u2019t own land. There were also men with identical names, so there was a problem knowing which man of that name had paid his taxes.<\/em><\/p>\n 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. …<\/em><\/p>\n For the rest of this article, and several\u00a0others, CVGA members should go to\u00a0\u201cMembers Only\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0on the menu bar above, and choose\u00a0\u201cCentral Virginia Heritage \u2014 Current Issue.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0(Note: You have to be logged in to this website in order to see \u201cMembers Only.\u201d)<\/p>\n If you have trouble logging in to the site to download your copy, please contact me at the webmaster link at the bottom of this page.<\/strong><\/p>\n For those who are not members of CVGA<\/strong>, we offer the opportunity to purchase a printed copy of each issue. The Summer\u00a02020 issue is available from Amazon.com at <\/span>https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B08C9CPS95<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for $6.50. Click on the Amazon.com link above or search for \u201cCentral Virginia Heritage\u201d on Amazon.com.<\/span><\/p>\n Contents of the Summer 2020 issue:<\/p>\n If you have any articles you\u2019d like to share with CVGA members, please send an email to the editor, eleanordew at gmail dot com<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0\u2014 The Editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Continue reading \n