Can someone tell me the "correct" definition of a "quit rent" and "quit rents list"? Like Forrest Gump, I am not a smart man. What I've been told many moons ago doesn't appear to be correct. Thanks!!! Paul M. **** An ancient term, the quit-rent simply was a tax on land. Those taxes were so called because for a thousand years plus, in England and in some colonies here, one paid a rent to the owner - "landlord" - on the land that one farmed or occupied from that landowner - sometimes, indeed, a "lord" - and only the privileged few owned any land atall. The term "quit" meant that after the payment of that rent, the tenant was quit - "free" - of any other rent for that year or term as the case might be. Paul Drake JD Genealogist & Author <www.DrakesBooks.com> 931-484-9129 ----- Original Message ----- From: P. Moring To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 10:03 PM Subject: Quit rents.... Can someone tell me the "correct" definition of a "quit rent" and "quit rents list"? Like Forrest Gump, I am not a smart man. What I've been told many moons ago doesn't appear to be correct. Tahnks!!! Paul M. To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.10/190 - Release Date: 12/1/2005
Paul, According to dictionary quit-rent - a rent paid by a freeman in lieu of services required of him by feudal custom. So by that definition, quit-rent lists would be (I would guess)somewhat like tax lists. __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com
That was the ancient definition, sure enough. By the days of the VA and other American colonies and following, the term came to mean almost any "land tax" paid to the colonial government. By then, we no longer had other than remnants and memories of the feudal system. Paul Drake JD Genealogist & Author <www.DrakesBooks.com> 931-484-9129 ----- Original Message ----- From: Emaress Nova To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 9:27 AM Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] Fw: Quit rents.... Paul, According to dictionary quit-rent - a rent paid by a freeman in lieu of services required of him by feudal custom. So by that definition, quit-rent lists would be (I would guess)somewhat like tax lists. __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL - Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com ============================== View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find marriage announcements and more. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.10/190 - Release Date: 12/1/2005