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1815 DIRECTORY OF VIRGINIA LANDOWNERS
In 1782 the General Assembly of Virginia enacted new tax laws which
created within each county an enumeration of land and certain personal property. These
early land tax laws required a tax commissioner in each district of a county to record a
list of the names of persons owning land or town lots, the quantity of land owned and its
value, and the amount of tax owed. By 1813, a brief geographic description (usually
citing an adjacent stream, road, or other landmark) was required; in 1814, the distance
and direction from the courthouse for each parcel was also added to the tax rolls.
The present work is an alphabetical listing of all 1815 landowners found in
each county, as well as the accompanying description of the location of the said property.
We have not included the number of acres, taxes assessed, or any transactions between
landowners which may have been noted on the tax rolls; also, in many cases the
geographic location was provided as "adjacent to John Smith", etc. and, while useful many
times to a genealogist, was considered to be beyond the objectives of this project. The
reader is encouraged to consider the information here-in as an "outline" of early
landowners in Virginia rather than a "text" due to the year-to-year variation in
information provided to the clerk (or recorded by the clerk), omissions, lack of
"identifiers" to determine if "same name" was also "same person" within a district or
across districts, marginal quality/clarity (in a few cases) of the microfilm copy, and, not
least, errors on the part of either the original clerks or the current author while
transcribing.
Some of the approaches to utilizing the 1815 landowner information include:
-
observe distinct clusters of the same surname within a county in order to clarify
the common surnames such as "Smith", "Anderson", etc;
- identify non-resident landowners and their county (or state) of residence (these
people often being former residents of the current county);
- determine neighbors with different surnames (often being relatives);
- use the 1815 information as a "bridge" from the 18th and 19th century deed/will
books to the 17th and 18th century land grants/patents in the county;
- evaluate the 1810 to 1840 census information which generally grouped
neighbors;
- substitute this information for missing deed/will books in the "burned" counties;
and, clarify/enhance vague deed/will information in the counties with more complete
records.
FORMAT OF PRESENTATION: Each entry is listed as: Surname,
name,
personal identifiers (if any); location/place-name of land; miles/direction from the 1815
courthouse. If multiple owners are listed for a property, the listing is duplicated under
each of the owner's surnames (i.e "Smith and Brown" is also listed as "Brown, --see
Smith"); when multiple owners share a common surname, the property is only listed
once. When a landowner had land at more than one location/place-name, the
miles/direction listing for each parcel is in the same sequence as the location listing (i.e.
James RV, Slate CK; 12N, 5SW.). In the few cases where a landowner had "many"
parcels, the miles/direction notation is attached to the location listing (i.e. Sandy RV-
5NE, Willow CK-7S, etc.)
The following is a list of county booklets for the
1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners
- [Vd01] Accomack Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (52 pp.) $8.00
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- [Vd02] Albemarle Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (52 pp.) $8.00
- [Vd03] Alexandria Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (13 pp.) $5.00
- [Vd04] Amelia Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (26 pp.) $5.00
- [Vd05] Amherst Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (30 pp.) $6.00
- [Vd06] Augusta Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (50 pp.) $8.00
- [Vd07] Bath Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (35 pp.) $7.00
- [Vd08] Bedford Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (49 pp.) $8.00
- [Vd09] Berkeley Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (51 pp.) $8.00
- [Vd10] Botetourt Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (51 pp.) $8.00
- [Vd11] Brooke Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (26 pp.) $5.00
- [Vd12] Brunswick Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (40 pp.) $7.00
- [Vd13] Buckingham Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (47 pp.) $8.00
- [Vd14] Cabell Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (32 pp.) $6.00
- [Vd15] Campbell Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (44 pp.) $7.00
- [Vd16] Caroline Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (35 pp.) $7.00
- [Vd17] Charles City Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (20 pp.) $5.00
- [Vd18] Charlotte Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (36 pp.) $7.00
- [Vd19] Chesterfield Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (48 pp.) $8.00
- [Vd20] Culpeper Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (47 pp.) $8.00
- [Vd21] Cumberland Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (36 pp.) $6.00
- [Vd22] Dinwiddie Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (37 pp.) $7.00
- [Vd23] Elizabeth City Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (21 pp.) $5.00
- [Vd24] Essex Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (25 pp.) $5.00
- [Vd25] Fairfax Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (31 pp.) $6.00
- [Vd26] Fauquier Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (43 pp.) $7.00
- [Vd27] Fluvanna Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (28 pp.) $6.00
- [Vd28] Franklin Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (41 pp.) $7.00
- [Vd29] Frederick Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (54 pp.) $8.00
- [Vd30] Giles Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (31 pp.) $6.00
- [Vd31] Gloucester Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (34 pp.) $6.00
- [Vd32] Goochland Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (32 pp.) $6.00
- [Vd33] Grayson Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (34 pp.) $6.00
- [Vd34] Greenbrier Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (56 pp.) $9.00
- [Vd35] Greensville Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (22 pp.) $5.00
- [Vd36] Halifax Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (61 pp.) $9.00
- [Vd37] Hampshire Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (68 pp.) $10.00
- [Vd38] Hanover Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (39 pp.) $7.00
- [Vd39] Hardy Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (32 pp.) $6.00
- [Vd40] Harrison Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (77 pp.) $11.00
- [Vd41] Henrico Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (39 pp.) $7.00
- [Vd42] Henry Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (25 pp.) $5.00
- [Vd43] Independent City of Alexandria 1815 Directory of Landowners (72 pp.) $10.00
- [Vd44] Independent City of Fredricksburg 1815 Directory of Landowners (17 pp.) $5.00
- [Vd45] Independent City of Norfolk 1815 Directory of Landowners (40 pp.) $7.00
- [Vd46] Independent City of Petersburg 1815 Directory of Landowners (24 pp.) $5.00
- [Vd47] Independent City of Richmond 1815 Directory of Landowners (43 pp.) $7.00
- [Vd48] Independent City of Staunton 1815 Directory of Landowners (14 pp.) $5.00
- [Vd49] Independent City of Winchester 1815 Directory of Landowners (18 pp.) $5.00
- [Vd50] Isle of Wight Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (43 pp.) $7.00
- [Vd51] James City Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (20 pp.) $5.00
- [Vd52] Jefferson Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (37 pp.) $7.00
- [Vd53] Kanawha Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (35 pp.) $7.00
- [Vd54] King George Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (21 pp.) $5.00
- [Vd55] King and Queen Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (33 pp.) $6.00
- [Vd56] King William Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (28 pp.) $6.00
- [Vd57] Lancaster Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (23 pp.) $5.00
- [Vd58] Lee Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (25 pp.) $5.00
- [Vd59] Loudoun Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (57 pp.) $9.00
- [Vd60] Louisa Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (44 pp.) $7.00
- [Vd61] Lunenburg Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (35 pp.) $7.00
- [Vd62] Madison Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (28 pp.) $6.00
- [Vd63] Mason Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (23 pp.) $5.00
- [Vd64] Mathews Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (25 pp.) $5.00
- [Vd65] Mecklenburg Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (46 pp.) $8.00
- [Vd66] Middlesex Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (20 pp.) $5.00
- [Vd67] Monongalia Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (61 pp.) $9.00
- [Vd68] Monroe Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (47 pp.) $8.00
- [Vd69] Montgomery Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (43 pp.) $7.00
- [Vd70] Nansemond Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (38 pp.) $7.00
- [Vd71] Nelson Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (28 pp.) $6.00
- [Vd72] New Kent Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (25 pp.) $5.00
- [Vd73] Norfolk Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (54 pp.) $8.00
- [Vd74] Northampton Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (22 pp.) $5.00
- [Vd75] Northumberland Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (27 pp.) $6.00
- [Vd76] Nottoway Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (25 pp.) $5.00
- [Vd77] Ohio Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (32 pp.) $6.00
- [Vd78] Orange Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (38 pp.) $7.00
- [Vd79] Patrick Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (37 pp.) $7.00
- [Vd80] Pendleton Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (31 pp.) $6.00
- [Vd81] Pittsylvania Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (59 pp.) $9.00
- [Vd82] Powhatan Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (23 pp.) $5.00
- [Vd83] Prince Edward Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (37 pp.) $7.00
- [Vd84] Prince George Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (31 pp.) $6.00
- [Vd85] Prince William Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (29 pp.) $6.00
- [Vd86] Princess Anne Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (41 pp.) $7.00
- [Vd87] Randolph Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (42 pp.) $7.00
- [Vd88] Richmond Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (14 pp.) $5.00
- [Vd89] Rockbridge Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (53 pp.) $8.00
- [Vd90] Rockingham Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (52 pp.) $8.00
- [Vd91] Russell Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (30 pp.) $6.00
- [Vd92] Scott Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (22 pp.) $5.00
- [Vd93] Shenandoah Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (54 pp.) $8.00
- [Vd94] Southampton Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (48 pp.) $8.00
- [Vd95] Spotsylvania Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (32 pp.) $6.00
- [Vd96] Stafford Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (25 pp.) $5.00
- [Vd97] Surry Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (31 pp.) $6.00
- [Vd98] Sussex Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (37 pp.) $7.00
- [Vd99] Tazewell Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (24 pp.) $5.00
- [V100] Tyler Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (24 pp.) $5.00
- [V101] Warwick Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (16 pp.) $5.00
- [V102] Washington Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (48 pp.) $8.00
- [V103] Westmoreland Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (25 pp.) $5.00
- [V104] Wood Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (35 pp.) $7.00
- [V105] Wythe Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (35 pp.) $6.00
- [V106] York Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners (22 pp.) $5.00
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