John Pardue, Jr Son And Heir At Law of John Pardue Deceased

Notice in the Virginia Gazzette 15 May 1779

While the image is very faint, with concentration, I was able to make the following transcription of the newspaper account. The notice appears in column three, third item
from the top.  
http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/VirginiaGazette/VGImagePopup.cfm?ID=6576&Res=HI&CFID=15165687&CFTOKEN=67711452

The Commonwealth of Virginia

To the sherif of Chesterfield County greetings: We command you that you have one John Pardue, Jr, the son and heir at law of John Pardue, deceased, to appear before our justices of our court of said county at the courthouse on the first Friday in November next to answer a bill in chancery exhibited against him by Cleavland Pardue and that this he shall in no wise omit. And to have then there this writ. Witness Benjamin Watkins clerk of the said court at the courthouse this 15th day of October in the third year of this commonwealth.



This compiler believes that the deceased John Pardue was the John Perdue who was issued a patent for 400 acres of land on Sappony Road in Henrico County in 1746. That area of Henrico County became Chesterfield County in 1749.  Chesterfield County Chancery court records do not exist for the time period so am unable to determine exactly what transpired. 

While the law of entail was abolished in Virginia in 1776, the law of primogeniture was in effect until 1785, thus in 1779, there are two possibilities for the command to the younger John to appear in Chancery Court: that he was the first born son of his deceased father who died intestate, or it was necessary for him to appear in court to arrange disposition of the father's estate, Cleavland likely a younger son, appointed administrator, anxious to have the estate settled. 

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

1750 Amelia County, Virginia Tithables List of John Pardue, Sr and Sons

1750 Amelia County, Virginia Tithables List of John Pardue, Sr.

John Pardue, Sr. is shown as John Perdue in the bottom grouping in
Column 4 with sons John Jr., William, and son Joseph. Joseph now
appears in his father's tithables list for the first time, having arrived at the age
of 16 previous to June 11, 1749.


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

1749 Amelia County, Virginia Tithables Records For John P*rdue and Tithable Sons

1749 Amelia County, Virginia Tithable Records for John Sr, sons, John Jr, and William


The senior John is shown listed in column 4 in lower right corner grouping with his two eldest sons, John Jr. and William.

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1748 Amelia County Virginia Tithables For John Perdue Senior & Sons, John Junior and William

1748 Amelia County Tithables For John Perdue Snr, Sons, John Jnr and William

Shown listed in the column two second grouping from the bottom.

1748 was the first year William appeared the household tithables lists of his father. He would have been at least 16 years old born between June 11, 1731 and June 10, 1732.  Since his brother, Joseph, was born between June 11, 1733 and October 1733, William's birth is reckoned to be in the year 1731.

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

1747 Amelia County Virginia Tithables Listings For John Perdue, Senior And John Perdue, Junior

1747 Amelia County Tithable Record Shown as John Perdue Snr and John Perdue Jnr


John and his eldest son, John, are recorded in column two, third group from the top. 


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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!