This is from the HOLT list. There is a Hampton WADE listed below Gold ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty Faye Lawton" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 9:12 AM Subject: [HOLT-L] Tax List-From VA. Genea.Soc. Quarterly > I was searching in the VGSQ and came across the following 1800 Tax > List for Halifax county. > This is a direct quote: > > >Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly * Volume XXVII * Volume > >XXVII, Number 2 (01-MAY-1989), page 107* A List of Qualified Voters, > >Halifax > > A List of Qualified Voters, > Halifax County, Virginia, 1800 > > Contributed by > Joanne Lovelace Nance > > George Washington had died on 14 December 1799, and in June of the next > year the new capital of the federal government, named for the first > president,began to receive departmental workers. Thomas Jefferson > would become the nation's third chief executive following a campaign > in which he came under heavy fire from the clergymen for his alleged > deism. During his first term of office, Jefferson concluded the > Louisiana Purchase, and the nation witnessed congressional > authorization for statehood in the Northwestern Territory. In May of > 1801, international problems erupted for the new Republic in the > Mediterranean when Yusuf Kararnanli, Pasha of Tripoli, ordered his > troops to cut down the United States flag at its consulate. > The qualified voters for the presidential election of 1800 > presented below have been transcribed from the original lists > recorded in Halifax County, Virginia, Deed Book 18, pp. 461-468. > Prevailing laws at the time restricted suffrage to white male > property owners possessed of 100 acres, unsettled, or twenty-five > acres, improved. In time, certain leaseholders would be franchised, > but universal white male suffrage was not achieved in Virginia until > 1851 (Chilton Williamson, American Suffrage, from Property to > Democracy, 1760-1860[1960], pp.13-14, 113, 225). Readers are reminded > that the 1800 federal census for Virginia is no longer extant. > > Halifax County, Virginia > Deed Book 18, p. 461-468 > Sheet No. 1 > Walter Bennett Martin Hemperly Ephaim Jackson > John Foulkes Benjamin Rodgers Peter Trible > James Hitt Anthony Powell Ezekiel Pillow > William Gunson Cason Guthery Lewis Wilbourne > Edwin Garlington Joseph Miller George Trible > George League Joseph Abbott David Nicholes > William Murray William Martin, Senr George Walton > Robert Burckett John Johnson Robert Walton > George Gresham Hampton WADE William Tucker > Berryman Green Peter Torian Travis Guthery > George Camp, Senr. Andrew Torian James Harris > James Johnston, Senr. John A. Foulkes Timothy HOLT > Richard Jones John Walton Nathaniel Francis > James Hardwick Nathan Martin Willian Cole > > > Betty Faye > > > > > ==== HOLT Mailing List ==== > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >