----- Original Message ----- From: "Mildred Venitucci" <emvee@kingwoodcable.com> To: <GAMACON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 2:06 PM Subject: [GAMACON] Barfield corrections > > Subj: Barfield Correction - 1763 Bladen Tax List > Date: 7/25/2001 > To: SCMARION-L@rootsweb.com > > On a recent posting to the Marion List I inadvertently added an extra name > to > the Barfields listed in the 1763 Bladen County, NC Tax List. I have since > gone back and pulled out the list, which I should have done before sending > out that message. > > Upon looking at the list again, I also re-discovered that it was in loose > alphabetical order, thus was almost certainly a copy of some previous > document or loose returns. > > The Bladen tax list, including all Barefields shown in 1763, reads more > fully > and much more accurately: > > Barefield David 1 - - 1 > > Barefield Richd. Joshua > Nathan Barefield & Josia 4 2 - 6 > > Barefield Roger 1 - - 1 > > The first number given is white polls. Unsure of other three numbers, column > headings are illegible on my copy from the NC Archives. Some would be black > polls, male and female. White females were not taxed. > ===================================================== > > You will notice that Thomas Barfield/Barefield was NOT on that list - > wishful > thinking on my part, I suppose. Sincere apologies. > > If you have forwarded the original message to anyone, please be kind and > forward this one as well. > > Jo Church Dickerson > > > > ==== GAMACON Mailing List ==== > "Not for fame or reward, not for place or rank, not lured by ambition or goaded by necessity; but in simple obedience to duty as they understood it; these men suffered all, sacrificed all, dared all, - and died." > --Rev. Dr. Randolph McKim (inscription on Confederate soldiers monument, Arlington National Cemetery) > > >