Amelia County Coroners' Inquisitions, 1779-1830

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Amelia County Coroners' Inquisitions, 1779-1830

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Library of Virginia

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Amelia County was formed from Prince George and Brunswick Counties in 1734. 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 slaves, and Native American servants (both male and female), all a...