Albemarle Co Va. Records-Personal property tax lists, original records in VA State Library For the period 1782-1789, each year Thomas Breedlove is the only adult of his surname to be listed as a resident of Albemarle Co. He generaly reports himself and 2 or 3 white tithes between age 16 and 21; no slaves; 10 to 14 horses. We have noted that in the State Enumerations of 1785 that he is the head of a family of 12 whites which probably consisted that year of himself and wife and ten ch (boys and girls) In the year 1790 Cornelius Breedlove apears on the list as tithable and as an adult for the first time. Thomas Breedlove is the only other one of his name so listed this year. In the year 1791 a Maddeson Breedlove appears as an adult and in 1792 appears a Martin Breedlove. We pursued the records of Cornelius Breedlove, from this source thru the year 1800, in which year he lists himself as taxable and with one taxable slave. >From these records it is logical to believe that Cornelius, madison and Martin Breedlove must have been sons of Thomas Breedlove. If no other type evidence is found or available to prove the premise and if no other evidence is found of a contra nature to oppose, it is acceptable as proof. (Reference is made to dAR Is that lineage right, publ. 1958) albemarle Co Va records, land tax records, originals Va state litrary. These records commence in VA in the year 1782. the commissioner appointed failed to list Thomas Breedlove as taxable on his land in this first year. However, in 1783, under the title list of errors in land tax- names of landowners- the commissioner shows that Thomas Breedlove was charged a tax of L1 12 shillings and 9 1/2 pence which he corrects as should be- L1 12 shillings and 7 1/2 pence. he does not give the acreage but in 1787, district B, he is still charged L 1 12 shillings 7 1/2 pence on 450 ac or land. thomas Breedlove is still taxed on 450 ac of land as late as 1798 which is as far as was researched in this assignment and is the only landowner of his name in the county thru the year 1795. In 1798 Madison Breedlove is taxed on 376 1/2 acres. A search was made for the record of his purchase of this land as it is important to learn the year he came into the country and possibly his origin. His name is not indexed as a grantee or purchaser in the deed books of the county nor is he to be found as receiving a land patent or land grant. It is therefore felt that the clerk must have missed his name in indexing his records and that a page by page search in the years before 1781 should be successful but this would have required a great deal of time. Neither could we find a record of the disposal of his land but this could possibly be determined by a search of the land tax records from 1799 thru 1810. if the sale, gift or disposal of his land could be found it may recite the history of how and when he acquired it. No will or inventory of his estate was found but he may have died in another -?