Washington Co., VA Tax Lists - Hensley

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In February 2006 I transcribed the Washington County, Virginia Land and Personal Property Tax Lists (1782-1815) from the microfilm copies of the original records. I only got the Hensley and some related families. Before this I relied heavily on the transcriptions of the same made by Ruthe Muench and Laura Schreibman a few years back. I thank them for those records. I was able to add a few items they missed.

The "Personal Property" tax lists include every white male over age 16 (or over 21 in some cases), referred to as polls, tithes, tithables, etc. The number of horses, cattle and slaves are also included on the lists.

The Land Tax lists are simpler, they show the name of the landowner and each tract of land they own showing the acreage.

In the table below I'll include the tax list data using the original spellings. The last column will be comments or a link to the web page for that family or person.

Personal Property Lists 1782-1815

Land Tax Lists 1782-1815

Washington Co., VA Personal Property Lists

Land Tax Lists 1782-1815. Each parcel of land was to be listed separately so the same person may be listed more than once on each list.