Pittsylvania County (Va.) Land Grant to William Young, Assignee of John Grant, 1799 Aug. 8

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Pittsylvania County (Va.) Land Grant to William Young, Assignee of John Grant, 1799 Aug. 8

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This collection forms part of the Robert Alonzo Brock Collection at The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

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Robert Alonzo Brock

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Mecklenburg County was named, like Charlotte County, for Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, consort of George III. It was formed from Lunenburg County in 1764. From the guide to the Mecklenburg County (Va.) Land Grant to Stephen Mallett, 1785 Nov. 14, (The Library of Virginia) Albemarle County was named for William Anne Keppel, second earl of Albemarle and governor of the Virginia colony from 1737 to 1754. It was formed from Goochland County in 1744...

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...