There is no taxation record in the FHL listings for these counties that explicitly includes the pre Rev. rent rolls. As someone has mentioned, there is a recent book, which might be informative, but the careful reader will note .... well see below. If in fact these rent rolls are among the "loose papers" held by the county clerk, that's both encouraging & discouraging. Good, because that's an identified starting point for search. Bad, because it sounds like they are unfilmed, and papers that old need to be in conservatorship & probably are inaccessible to the public. Here's some FHL - origin data for this book, to help others locate it. Title The Tax man cometh : land and property in colonial Fauquier County, Virginia : tax list from the Fauquier County Court clerk's loose papers, 1759-1782 Stmnt.Resp. compiled by Joan W. Peters Authors Peters, Joan W (Main Author) Notes Includes indexes. Contains the tithable lists, 1759-1778, and personal property and land tax lists, 1782. Lists give names and property being taxed. Includes an explanation of early Virginia tax laws. Subjects Virginia, Fauquier - Taxation Copies Call Number - Location 975.5275 R4p - FHL US/CAN Book Publication Westminster, Md. : Willow Bend Books and Family Line Publications, c1999 Physical [6], xxxix, 222 p. ISBN/ISSN 1585494089 Subject Class 975.5275 R4 Film Notes No film notes for this title.

Many of the original rent rolls (as compiled by the agents of Lord Fairfax) are held in original form by the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. The Library of Virginia has copies of several. I don't know what, in the way of rent rolls, is available in Warrenton. NVG just published a 1766 tax list, but it deals with just part of the county. Last night I saw a Fairfax County rent roll that had been recorded in a deed book (abstracted by Sparacio). The RELIC room in Manassas has photocopies of several rent rolls for Prince William County. Keep in mind that these were compiled by geographic areas, concerned only a limited amount of property, and one rent roll never covered the entire county. Those names are not surname1 and surname2. The person was given a family name as his first name. By family name, I mean surname. It could have been given in honor of a relative, or the local preacher, doctor, whatever. But it was used as the man's first name. Virginians were very fond of this practice. Willoughby Newton, Newton Edwards, Landon Carter, the list could go on forever.... The commissioners of revenue were not interested in family connections, but they wanted to be sure they went to the correct man to collect the taxes due on a specific piece of property. Therefore, if there was more than one man with the same name in the vicinity (and believe me there were several with the same name) John Wilson son of Jeremiah, would have been styled John of Jeremiah, to distinguish him from John, son of Sampson. Or, locations could be used. Withers Smith B. R., or Withers Smith Mtn. meant he lived on the Blue Ridge, rather than John Smith who lived in town. Ms. Marty Hiatt, CGRS "Document what you find, listen to what you are told, and especially, love and respect your work." John Morris CGRS is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license after periodic evaluations by the Board. > Includes indexes. > Contains the tithable lists, 1759-1778, and personal property and land tax > lists, 1782. Lists give names and property being taxed. > Includes an explanation of early Virginia tax laws. > > Subjects Virginia, Fauquier - Taxation > > Copies > Call Number - Location > 975.5275 R4p - FHL US/CAN Book > > > Publication Westminster, Md. : Willow Bend Books and Family Line > Publications, c1999 > > Physical [6], xxxix, 222 p. > > ISBN/ISSN 1585494089 > > Subject Class > 975.5275 R4 > > Film Notes No film notes for this title. >