A Guide to an Unidentified Retail Ledger, 1788-1828

Unidentified Retail (Pittsylvania County, Va.)

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Pittsylvania County (Va.) Circuit Court

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Pittsylvania County was named in honor of William Pitt, earl of Chatham, a great English statesman. It was formed from Halifax County in 1766. In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Virginia, the term "tithable" referred to a person who paid (or for whom someone else paid) one of the taxes imposed by the General Assembly for the support of civil government in the colony. In colonial Virginia, a poll tax or capitation tax was assessed on free white males, African American...