Some of us with colonial Virginia Harrises (and allied families) may be able to use these figures, which I located on the digitized North Carolina Colonial and State Papers.  Access to the digitized 26 (?) volumes is free. Yo may just get lucky and find some ancestors in one or more of these hefty volumes.  This VA county tithable list is in Vol. 5 of subject series of books.  (Google for NC colonial & state papers--only spell out NC--just to be sure!)  My Harrises had some roots in colonial Hanover Co.,VA most of which official records burned when Richmond was evacuated by the Confederates at the end of the Civil War.  However, on a database called HeritageQuest carried by some public libraries, you will find a book by Charles Chamberlayne called Vestry Book of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County 1707-1786, published in Richmond in 1940.  Ask your librarian about HeritageQuest.  Your State Library may have HeritageQuest.  (Also, search google books as well as catalog for your State Library.) This tithable list for Virginia counties is dated 1756.  Louisa Co., formed from Hanover Co., had many of its records intact.  However, the compiler of many Louisa records of early date Rosalie Edith Davis, Manchester, MO, has recently become disabled (or worse, has died) and I cannot find a suitable URL for her successor.  Unfortunately, the Family History Library does not have her  books  The Library of Virginia has many of her paperbound books.  For a fee, they probably would send you copies of the indexes of the various volumes. (Check your state and state university library catalogs.  Be persistent. Some of these counties formed new counties.  That is why Arlene Eakle, PhD, states, If you are researching in Virginia, research ALL the counties.  They kept forming new counties!!! I rely heavily on the VA land patents, which are now on line at the Library of Virginia website [google for it].  Look on the alpha index for Land Patents which includes the words Northern Neck Land Grants (the Fairfax proprietary).  You will find the colonial Harrises in Virginia at the end of the line.  VA is still granting land patents in the 21st century!!!  Those *newbie* land owners will appear first. E.W.Wallace From North Carolina Colonial and State Papers, Vol. 5 List of taxables in Virginia No AuthorFebruary 23, 1756 Volume 05, Pages 564-565 ________________________________ [Reprinted from Dinwiddie Papers. Vol. 2. P. 352.] A List of Tithables [in Virginia] Sent the Lords of Trade, February 23rd, 1756—(Per Capt. Teage.) Counties. Whites. Blacks. Accomack, 1,506 1,135 Amelia, 1,251 1,652 Albemarle, 1,344 1,747 Augusta, 2,273 40 Brunswick, 1,299 976 Bedford, 357 143 Chas. City, 537 1,058 Caroline, 1,208 2,671 Chesterfield, 841 1,198 Culpeper, 1,221 1,217 Cumberland, 704 1,394 Dinwiddie, 784 1,175 Eliz'h City, 316 812 Essex, 889 1,711 Fairfax, 1,372 921 Frederick, 2,173 340 Gloster, 1,137 3,284 Goochland, 569 935 Henrico, 529 898 Hanover, 1,169 2,621 Hampshire, 558 12 Halifax, 629 141 James City, 394 1,254 -------------------- page