January 2005 I viewed film #1870170 in my local Latter Day Saints Family History Library. It is the Personal Property Tax list of 1792 for Montgomery County, Va. I had ordered the film because I believe that my Jacob Elliott may have moved his family to Montgomery County, Virginia temporarily because of a close call during the Revolutionary War events in NC. Jacob was a Quaker and it is my belief that he was almost shot for refusing to join the battles on the Tory side. My research has shown that his family did not want to be a part of the Revolution at all--their Quaker beliefs discouraged or even forbid their taking part in the war. He and his family are found on several lists in Randolph County, NC refusing to take oaths and refusing to pay taxes to support a war that they did not believe in. I made very sketchy notes....mainly just listing the names of people that I recognized or surnames that I was interested in. As background, Montgomery had been an enormous county in 1780 reaching from the NC border up into what is now WV. But in 1790, Wythe had been carved out of Montgomery making it much smaller, but still much larger than it is today. While it did not touch the NC border any more, it still reached up into what I would now call the WV coalfields. It was bordered by Greenbrier County, Kanawha, Botetourt, Wythe and Henry and Franklin. And by the tax of 1792 it was still the same size as in 1790, but the other counties touching it had broken into more counties...Giles County is formed in 1806 out of three counties....one of them is Montgomery. So Many of the stories that have things happening in Giles County could have been families who were already living on the land in 1792 in Montgomery who would call their county Giles 14 years later. I would like to see how many of the people that I jotted down we can identify. If you have buddies on other mail lists, feel free to include them. I'll add what I know about any of them as well....and if you find errors in my assumptions, I consider it a favor to be corrected. William Webb Adam Clendenning Lots of Davies: Robert, James, James, Jr, Samuel, William Elizabeth Dobbins Faulkner Elliott Samuel Elliott George Elmore Lots of Ewings Israel Elliott My Jacob Elliott had a son named Israel who married Welmet Lamb. Jacob Elliott I would like to think that this is my Jacob Elliott who lived much of his adult life in Rowen and then later Randolph County, NC (he was born in either Penn or New Jersey) William Hensley, Sr. George Hensley Moses Justice Moredock McKinsey--my notes tell me that Moredock and his family had come from Culpeper with John and Richard Chapman and had settled in 1778 at the mouth of Wolfe Creek on New River. His family had suffered from an attack in 1778. His daughters Elizabeth and Margaret were taken into captivity. Christian Martin--at the time I believed these men to have been my husband's relations...but I find his Martin family to still be in Bedford County, Virginia in this time period. Philip Martin Joseph Martin Alexander Neely William Patterson Robert Poague Thomas Poague James Rowland Taylors and Tollivers together--this sounds like Orange County, Virginia to me..... Michael Thomas William Thomas Frederick Miller Henry Webb Benjamin Hensley (no titheable) Charles Hensley Robert Hensley George Martin John Martin Isaac Elliott--I don't have an Isaac Elliott in my data base, but other researchers say that my Jacob and his brother Abraham had a brother named Isaac who died young. Perhaps Abraham had a son that he named Isaac....perhaps none of these Elliott's belong to me... Moses Justice Chrisley Hansley Patrick Morrison--could easily have been father-in-law of Soloman Hensley (Soloman is said to have married Elizabeth Hensley daughter of Patrick Henry Morrison b. circa 1750)-- Any ideas to help me with this tax list? Marsha in WV