This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: waroper Surnames: Roper, Rosser Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.roper/1939.14/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Within Dr. Stephen E. BRADLEY's published abstracts of deeds in Brunswick Deed Book 11, Dr. BRADLEY shows a List of Brunswick Tithables which is dated May 24, 1773. The List seems to have appeared a Book 11, Pages 138-44 and is abstracted in Volume 5 of BRADLEY's Brunswick Deed Abstracts at pages 59-62. BRADLEY has alphabetized the original list in his transcription. BRADLEY shows these names at page 61: David ROPER David ROPER J[ess]e ROPER For reasons I will elaborate in another post, I suspect that BRADLEY may have made an erroneous inference about the identity of the "Je. Roper" probably shown in the original underlying deed book. BRADLEY surmises that this is Jesse ROPER (b 31 May 1751), who is shown as a witness to the deed of Charles ROPER in the same volume. This is certainly plausible, as it is consistent with a young man leaving his father's household after reaching age 21. But Jesse ROPER was witnessing a conveyance made by Charles and Ann ROPER, of Dinwiddie. There is other specific NO REASON to believe that Jesse ROPER ever lived in Brunswick. Instead, he seems to have settled in Northampton County, NC, just to the South. While it is POSSIBLE that "Je. Roper" is Jesse ROPER and that he was just passing through Brunswick that year, possibly residing with his elder brother David, there is also another candidate who is KNOWN to have resided in Brunswick. This is Jeremiah ROPER. * * * My reading of the 1773 List of Brunswick Tithables is that David ROPER (b 29 Jun 1742 - VA) is then residing in Brunswick. Also residing in Brunswick is another David ROPER (b bef 1753) who is too old to be the son of David ROPER (b 29 Jun 1742 - VA). There also seems to be a somewhat ambiguous "Je. ROPER". I should probably also note that BRADLEY may have gotten the second David ROPER record wrong in another way, since there was also a ROSSER family then resident in Brunswick. There are NO ROSSERs shown on this List. The images from this deed book need to be carefully examined to ascertain whether there were, in fact TWO David ROPERs and whether there are any inferences which can be drawn about the locations or relationships by the SEQUENCE within which these names appear in the original List of Tithables. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>