1746 Amelia County, Virginia Tithable Listing of John Perdue, Sr. and Jr.

1746 Amelia County Tithables For John Perdue, Sr and son, John, Jr.

John Perdue, Sr and his son, John, Jr can be located in the first column, just barely visible in the eleventh line from the top, as Jno Perdue Snr and Jno Perdue Jnr, in Edward Booker's 1746 tithables' list on Deep Creek in Amelia County.

The 1745 tithables list for the senior John is not available. It is unknown if son, John Jr. was listed in his father's household that year. 

1729 is reckoned as the birth year of John, Jr. having been born no later than June 10, 1730.  Given that his brother, Joseph, first shown in his father's 1750 tithables, having been born no later than October 1733 as confirmed by records of his draft into the Seventh Virginia Regiment in October 1756 at the age of 23, and given that his brother, William, first shown in his father's tithables' list in 1748, born between 11June 1731 and 10 June 1732, and based on the probability that there were the usual two years between the births of the eldest children, John, Jr's birth year is calculated to more likely be 1729.

Most of the Amelia County tithables lists are available for the years from 1736 through 1764 and as I locate jpeg images they will be added as I find them.



Genealogy is never done; it is always a work in progress!

1744 Amelia County, Virginia Tithables Record of John Perdue

 

1744 Amelia County, Virginia Tithables For John Pardue, Sr Died 1769


Shown in the list as Jno Perdue, located in the fourth column sixth from the bottom with one poll, he was the John Pardue who died in Bute County, North Carolina in 1769 shown as John Perdue on his will. 

He moved to North Carolina in 1761 from Deep Creek in Amelia County, Virginia, where the deed selling his land records his name as Pardue, where, from the tithable and court records, he appears to have been living on Deep Creek from at least as early as 21 October 1743.

The year 1744 is the first time he was listed in the Amelia County Tithables records, indicating that he moved to Amelia County sometime in the four months after June 11, 1743 and the 21 October 1743 date when he first appeared in the Amelia County court records. Most of the early Amelia County tithables records have been preserved and nowhere in any of the earlier lists does he appear, so it appears that his appearance in October 1743 is the first accounting of him anywhere in the Amelia County records.

This list of tithables of those living below Flatt Creek and Nibbs Creek (between Deep Creek and Flat Creek) was taken by Edward Booker and posted at the courthouse in Amelia County on June 10, 1744, June 10th being the date for which all tithables in Virginia had to be accounted for the taxable year.  As noted in a previous post, tithables were white and black males who were at least sixteen years of age between June 11 the previous year and the June 10 courthouse posting date of the following year, and all Indian women.  Tithables not accounted for were subject to a fine.


Genealogy is never done; it is always a work in progress!