Hi Sara, In case you don't have this information, I extracted these Thomas' from the Virginia Tax lists before 1890: Taxed 1785 in Princes Ann County: Thomas James/ no dwellings one white person 2 other buildings. This looks like a plantation where there was storage for crops and Thomas was likely the "overseer" but not living on the place. These are deductions by the reading of the taxes and how they were made off the tax roll list. Often sons or relatives did these things for family for a living. If Thomas was young he would likely have been given the responsibility but not married yet. The interesting thing is the NEIGHBORS! WOODHOUSE! This is a genealogy which is available on line and has a JAMES marriage of the same circa "in general". The links can be found in the LDS site FamilySearch.com Neighbors list: Jonathan jr. WOODHOUSE, John jr JAMES , Pembrook JAMES (we had this DNA ancestral target in the James DNA Project lists), William sr. JAMES, Elizabeth JAMES, and John sr JAMES. Also, for background research of other neighbors: Joshua LAMOUNT, Solomon MALBONE, Moses jr. McCLALIN, Jonathan FENTRESS., Francis WOODHOUSE, Henry MOORE, John jr. and Willoughby DYER, and Thomas and Jonathan WARD. Remember, surname spellings are not always correct due to the speller who did the writing for the event! The records in Princess Anne are quite compatible with Culpeper, Spotsylvania, and Fauquier County including many who migrated to Kentucky and Tennessee. Boundary re-sets also moved people from one county to another. __________________ Linda M. Thank lthank@turboisp.com __________________