Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

Fairfax County (Va.) Lists of Tithables, 1749. Local government records collection, Fairfax County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.

Acquisition Information

These records came to the Library of Virginia in a shipment of court papers from Fairfax County under the accession number 27171.

Historical Information

Fairfax County was named for Thomas Fairfax, sixth baron Fairfax of Cameron, proprietor of the Northern Neck. It was formed from Prince William County in 1742.

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 age sixteen or older. Owners and masters paid the taxes levied on their slaves and servants. For a more detailed history of tithables, consult the Library of Virginia's website for Colonial Tithables

Original wills and deeds as well as many other loose papers were destroyed during the Civil War; deed books for twenty-six of the fifty-six years between 1763 and 1819 are missing. Numerous pre-Civil War minute books are missing as well.

Scope and Content

Fairfax County (Va.) Lists of Tithables, 1749, consists of negative photostat images of the list of tithable heads of household in the county for the year 1749.

Arrangement

Chronological.

Related Material

Additional Fairfax County Tax and Fiscal Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia web site. Consult A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm

See the Lost Records Localities Digital Collection available at Virginia Memory.

For more information and a listing of lost records localities see Lost Records research note .

Index Terms

Corporate Names:

• Fairfax County (Va.) Circuit Court.

Subjects:

• African Americans -- History
• Slaveholders -- Virginia -- Fairfax County
• Slavery -- Virginia -- Fairfax County
• Slaves -- Virginia -- Fairfax County
• Taxation -- Virginia -- Fairfax County.

Geographical Names:

• Fairfax County (Va.) -- History -- 18th century.

Genre and Form Terms:

• Local government records -- Virginia -- Fairfax County.
• Tax and fiscal records -- Virginia -- Fairfax County.
• Tithable lists -- Virginia -- Fairfax County.

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