-----Original Message----- From: Tom Pierce [mailto:tvpierce@infionline.net] Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 9:07 PM To: VASHENAN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: {not a subscriber} Re: [VASHENAN] Personal Property Tax Lists Shenandoah County, VA Chocy, The easy and quick way I've found to tell which list is which is to just look for Thomas Allen Jr. and Sr. They appear near the start of the list that covers Page County, Warren County and the Fort Valley. The other list (for the main valley) will always have Bushongs near the start of the B's. Tom Chocybrown@aol.com wrote: > You can order microfilm from the Library of Virginia at Richmond through your > local library interbranch loan program. I have recently viewed the following > film: > > Department of Taxation > Personal Property Tax Lists > Shenadoah County, Virginia > > 1782-1799 Microfilm Reel #315 > 1800-1818 Microfilm Reel #316 > 1819-1830 Microfilm Reel #317 > > Each year is broke down into two lists. For example: 1819-List > B-Samuel Bare's District; 1819-List A-Joseph Strickler's District. > List A and List B Districts change the name of who is in charge of the > district. For example, Samuel Bare may have the List A and Joseph Strickler > may have the List B; however, they have the same people they had the year > before. > As the years go on, I noted that that same district person could be assigned > List A or B; but the people on that particular list are are always the same > ones he enumerated the previous year. > I, too, would like to know the locations. In an effort to do that, I > copied different pages of interest and in some of the years I have copied the > entire year as a baseline in an effort to find the locations of the families I > am interested. > For example, if anyone on this list, knows where George Knisely lived, > I could pinpoint the district that Joseph Strickler operated from in a number > of years. I found him and his family buried in the cemeteries around Detrick > just north of Overall this area being southwest of Front Royal and south east > of Woodstock which lines up with the 1815 landowners that state he lived in > that direction from the county courthouse. > 1813 List B states "List of the Titheables and Taxable Property within > the district of the Ninety seventh Regiment Shenandoah by James Headly on the > Commissioners of the Revenue of the said County for th year ---- 1813" > Chocy > > ==== VASHENAN Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe, send a msg. to VASHENAN-L-request@rootsweb.com or VASHENAN-D-request@rootsweb.com with the word unsubscribe.