Prince George County, 1790 Personal Property Tax List (printed page in Clayton Library- no other years Shown) Poythress, Elizabeth Poythres, William (sic) Poythress, Joshua, Est. Poythress, Mary Poythress, William Notes: 1) this list incomplete insofar as rate and amount of tax not included. (Doubful if personal property will be itemized when original is located in LVA. 2) land taxes for 1790 for comparison with above: Name Acres Peter Poythress 100 1000 400 225 100 290 Mary Poythress 100 Joshua Poythress 404 200 William Poythress 184 120 850 Mary Poythress 293 For sure, comparisons are odious; contradictions implied from above: a) Peter Poythress, with huge land holdings, not taxed for personal property. b) One of the Mary Poythresses escaped personal property tax in 1790 c) Unless William Poythres and William Poythress are the same (doubtful), one of them escaped personal property taxes in 1790. d) Joshua is "Est." for personal property, would presumably be "alive" for land taxes. e) Summary conclusion: the two taxes appear to be on uncoordinated tracks unless there are unusual circumstances. 3) The personal property tax records above are only the one year of taxes. In 1782, VA enacted a major revision of the laws providing for statewide enumeration at the county level of both land and personal property. Both kinds of taxes are shown in yearly sequence on microfilm at LVA. We HAVE recorded (see: Virgina Land Tax Records, Prince George County) the land taxes from 1782 thru 1798 (microfilm reel 255 in LVA, 1782-1811) REMAINDER OF PROJECT (which likely can only be done at LVA) a) finish the land property records in reel 255 for years following 1798 b) record all of the years beginning 1782 for personal property tax records