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A most helpful feature for each entry is the \"identification\" column, in which the author identifies the specific family and Wright ancestors from whom the named Wright descends.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert N. Grant\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(2009), 2013, 8.5\" x 11\", paper, index, 294 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788449369\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-G4936\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42878705360,"sku":"101-G4936","price":35.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-g4936.png?v=1728590606"},{"product_id":"101-g4937","title":"Wright Family Personal Property Tax Lists, Nelson County, Virginia: 1809-1850","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe author has amassed a bounty of information about Wrights in southern Virginia. This volume is a collection of Wright records from Nelson County, Virginia. It contains source information and an index. Sources include official county records in the Virginia State Library and Archives in Richmond. A most helpful feature for each entry is the \"identification\" column, in which the author identifies the specific family and Wright ancestors from whom the named Wright descends.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert N. 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A most helpful feature for each entry is the \"identification\" column, in which the author identifies the specific family and Wright ancestors from whom the named Wright descends.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert N. Grant\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2009, 8.5\" x 11\", paper, index, 208 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788449383\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-G4938\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42850686608,"sku":"101-G4938","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-g4938.png?v=1728590611"},{"product_id":"107-nels10","title":"Nelson County, Virginia 1810 Census","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume contains illustrations, maps, in the original rough alphabetic order by letter. This is the first surviving census for Nelson County, Virginia, which had just been created two years before.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Vogt\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2010\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e107-NELS10\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Iberian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29985015660662,"sku":"107-NELS10","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/iberian-logo-107-nels10.png?v=1727819884"},{"product_id":"107-nels","title":"Nelson County, Virginia Marriages, 1808-1850","description":"\u003cp\u003eNelson County, Virginia was created by an act of the General Assembly in 1807. It was carved out of a portion of Amherst County and was named in honor of former Governor and signer of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Nelson. The author has added unrecorded material which was located by the Virginia Library more than a decade after its initial publication. This consists of an original license register dated 1814-1819 with more than 300 additions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Vogt\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(1985),2013, 5.5\" x 8.5\", Paper, 96 pp. with map\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e107-NELS\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Iberian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29985035944054,"sku":"107-NELS","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/107-nels.png?v=1727805361"},{"product_id":"107-vd71","title":"Nelson County, Virginia 1815 Directory of Landowners","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1782, the General Assembly of Virginia enacted new tax laws which created within each county and independent city 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe present work is an alphabetical listing of all 1815 landowners found in each county and independent city, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome of the approaches to utilizing the 1815 landowner information include:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eobserve distinct clusters of the same surname within a county in order to clarify the common surnames such as \"Smith\", \"Anderson\", etc;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eidentify non-resident landowners and their county (or state) of residence (these people often being former residents of the current county);\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003edetermine neighbors with different surnames (often being relatives);\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003euse 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;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eevaluate the 1810 to 1840 census information which generally grouped neighbors;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003esubstitute 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.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eFORMAT 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.)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoger G. 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This work is the first volume in a continuing project to record all 1815 landowners found in each county, as well as the accompanying description of the location of the property.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome of the approaches to utilizing the 1815 landowner information include:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eobserve distinct clusters of the same surname within a county in order to clarify the common surnames such as \"Smith\", \"Anderson\", etc;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eidentify non-resident landowners and their county (or state) of residence (these people often being former residents of the current county);\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003edetermine neighbors with different surnames (often being relatives);\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003euse 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;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eevaluate the 1810 to 1840 census information which generally grouped neighbors;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003esubstitute 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.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFORMAT OF PRESENTATION:\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLinks to all 6 volumes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 1: Central Region\" href=\"\/products\/107-vdl1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 1: Central Region\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 2: South Central Region\" href=\"\/products\/107-vdl2\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e 1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 2: South Central Region\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 3: Eastern Region\" href=\"\/products\/107-vdl3\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 3: Eastern Region\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/107-vdl4\" title=\"1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 4: Northern Region\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 4: Northern Region\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/107-vdl5\" title=\"1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 5: Western Region\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 5: Western Region\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/107-vdl6\" title=\"1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 6: Northwest Region\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners and Gazetteer Vol. 6: Northwest Region\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoger G. 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Funding for this series has been made possible in part by a grant from the Richard Slatten Endowment for Virginia History of The Community Foundation in memory of Richard Slatten, a former President of the Virginia Genealogical Society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWesley E. Pippenger\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2003, 6\" x 9\", cloth, xxviii + 634 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781888192339\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e603-ES4\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Virginia Genealogical Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31869349920886,"sku":"603-ES4","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/products\/603-es4.png?v=1763749334"},{"product_id":"117-va37a","title":"Lynchburg, Virginia and Nelson County, Virginia Wills, Deeds, and Marriages, 1807-1831","description":"\u003cp\u003eContains Lynchburg Will Book \"A\" covers the period 1809-1830. The first marriage book of the City of Lynchburg begins in 1807 through 1828. Deed Book \"A\" of the City of Lynchburg covers 1805 - 1813. The Nelson County records include Will Book A, Deed Book 1 and the marriages records from 1807-1831.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRev. Bailey Davis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1985), 2016, paper, 256 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780893082895\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e117-VA37A\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Historical Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39887314255990,"sku":"117-VA37A","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/117-va37a.png?v=1727812459"},{"product_id":"603-es4p","title":"Index to Virginia Estates, 1800-1865: Volume 4 [paper]","description":"\u003cp\u003eIndex of all Virginia estate-related records found in will books and other collections, typically on microfilm. Volume 4 covers the Counties of Albemarle, Alleghany, Amherst, Bath, Botetourt, Buckingham, Fluvanna, Highland, Nelson, and Rockbridge.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis ten-volume set has been completed geographically. Funding for this series has been made possible in part by a grant from the Richard Slatten Endowment for Virginia History of The Community Foundation in memory of Richard Slatten, a former President of the Virginia Genealogical Society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWesley E. 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Trueheart are provided, giving the names, ranks, and times of service of former militiamen. The following counties are included: Albemarle, Amelia, Amherst, Bedford, Brunswick, Buckingham, Campbell, Charlotte, Chesterfield, Cumberland, Dinwiddie, Fluvanna, Goochland, Greene, Greensville, Halifax, Hanover, Henrico, Louisa, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nelson, Nottoway, Pittsylvania, Powhatan, and Prince Edward. A full-name index adds to the value of this work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames L. 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