Hope this will help someone. It came via the Prince William County Va. list. http://www.pwcgov.org/library/relic/reliquary/pwr0703.pdf BRITISH MERCANTILE CLAIMS, 1775-1803 Claims relating to Prince William County Customers and/or Residents Extracted and indexed by Margaret B. Binning The properties of many British merchants operating in Virginia were confiscated during the Revolutionary War. Virginians often refused to pay debts that were owed to those stores. The peace treaty with Britain, 1783, allowed the merchants to sue in American courts for recovery of these debts. Beginning about 1800, special agents investigated persons owing the debts to determine their current status. In a long series of articles published between 1962 and 1989 in The Virginia Genealogist, John Frederick Dorman prepared abstracts of British Mercantile Claims for the state of Virginia. Following is an index of persons who appear in those reports who were customers of Prince William firms, or were identified as Prince William residents at the beginning of the war. Data extracted includes the customer's name, estimated date of death (if deceased), date the debt was due, current status of the debt (outcome), citation from The Virginia Genealogist, and the name of the creditor. For additional information, please see Mr. Dorman's abstracts which cite particular documents in the Public Record Office, London. DW Compiler's notes on developing this Index of the articles that appeared in The Virginia Genealogist: 1. Death dates were estimated by subtracting from the date of the report if known otherwise subtracting from 1803, the latest date of the reports. 2. The term "then solvent" refers to being solvent at the time of death. 3. To facilitate search, multi-owner debtor company names are listed under the name of each owner and will therefore appear more than once in this index. 4. Square brackets "[ ]" reflect comments of the complier. 5. See each Virginia Genealogist citation for reference to the original Treasury Papers series. Bla. (Fal) = John Bland (Falmouth) Bog. (Fal) = Bogle Somerville & Co. (Falmouth) Bol. (Nor) = William Bolden (Norfolk) Boy. (Pot) = Boydshole Store (Potowmack River) Cunn. = Wm. Cunningham & Co. Cunn. (Dum) = Wm. Cunningham & Co. (Dumfries) Cunn. (Fal) = Wm. Cunningham & Co. (Falmouth) Cunn. (Fauq) = Wm. Cunningham & Co. (Fauquier) Denn. = Oswald Dennistown & Co. Dun. = Colin Dunlap & Son & Co. Dun. (Dum) = Colin Dunlap & Son & Co. (Dumfries) Dun. (Alex.) = Colin Dunlap & Son & Co. (Alexandria) Dun. (PWC) = Colin Dunlap & Son & Co. (PWCo.) Dun. (Nor) = Dunmore Blackborn & Co. (Norfolk) Dunlop = Dunlop & Wilson Glas. (PW) = Glassford, Gordon, Monteath & Co. (PWCo.) Gilchrist = Robt. Gilchrist & Co. Gor. (Fal) = Gordon, Monteath & Co. (Falmouth) Gray (PR) = John Gray & Co. (Port Royal) McCall = McCall, Smellie & Co. Neil. (Nor) = Neil, Jamison & Co. (Norfolk) Rit. (Dum) = James Ritchie & Co. (Dumfries) LAST NAME FIRST NAME DATE OF DEATH MONIES DUE DATE OUTCOME SOURCE CLAIMS OF Harrison Burr, Col. abt 1793 Feb 1776 Matthew Harrison his son VG21, p. 43 Cunn. (Fal) Harrison Cuthbert 1780 He died in 1780 and left by his will property to be sold for the payment of his debts. VG24, p. 47 Cunn. (Fauq) Harrison Cuthbert bef 1803 Heir of Chas. Hammond & Co., solvent VG20, p. 99 Dun.(Dum) Harrison Cuthbert 29 May 1775 VG8, p. 132 Bog. (Fal) Harrison Cuthbert 1 Apr 1774 Thomas Harrison, an agent for 1 or 2 British houses in this state, residing at Dumfries, is a relation VG8, p. 132 Bog. (Fal) Harrison Frances, Mrs. 5 Nov 1773 She married Thomas Short VG8, p. 132 Bog. (Fal) Harrison Matthew abt 1798 Jul 1775 Nothing to be got VG21, p. 43 Cunn. (Fal) Harrison Thomas [see Cuthbert Harrison] VG8, p. 132 Bog. (Fal) Harrison William [see George Kitchen] VG9, p. 118 Boy. (Pot) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Researching: (1) Porter, McCants, Cobb, Martin, Rawlinson, Gill, Higgins, Scott, Harrison, Fetner; (2) Bryant, McDade, Dillard, Tolleson, Hampton, Lee, Wells, Baxter, Eaves; (3) Kinard, Wise, Thaxton, Vickers, Jenkins, Patton, Hubbard, Wilkins, Long/Lang, Latta (Branch 28), Mauldin, Dismukes. Please direct all correspondence to: [email protected] To join the McCANTS LIST, send an email to [email protected] and write the word subscribe in the subject line. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~