Memorandum
List of Tithables in Truro Parish, Fairfax County
9 June 1773
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[c.9 June 1773] A List of Tithables--in--Truro Parish Fairfax County--9th June 1773. Geo: Washington, Lund Washington Thos. Bishop, John Alton, Jonn Palmer, Chrr Shade, Caleb Stone, David Cowan, Andw Judge, Phil: Bateman. [1] [House servants] Breechy, Will, Frank, Giles, Herculas, Doll, Jenny, Betty, Moll, Sall, Alice, Lucy, Sarah, Alice. [tradesmen] Frank, Davy, Tom, George, Ned, James, Isaac, George, Jack, Anthony. [Home house] Schomberg, Peter, Jack, Lewis, Bacchus, Harry, Lydia, Jone, Winney, Sarah, Phoebe, Daphne. [Ferry farm] Michael, Caesar, Sam, Cupid, Peter, Moll, Lucy, Betty, Doll, Daphne. [Mill farm] Davy, Sam, Ben, Moll, Jenny, Moll, Priscilla. [Muddy Hole] Will, Adam, Will, Jupiter, Dundee, Kate, Nan, Sarah, Jenny. [Dogue Run] Morris, Matt, Bath, Robin, Bob, Morris, Hannah, Sue, Betty, Lucy. In all--82. [2] 80 A Chariot--a Chair--& Phaeton. Tythables--in Fairfax Parish--9th June 1773. Alexr Cleveland [3] Frederick, Essex, Ben, Natt, Will, Neptune, Abram, George, Schomberg, Dick, Robin, Arlington, Ned, George, Ruth, Peg, Murria, Doll, Daphne, Cloe, Nan, Judy, Milly, Frank, Judy, Sue, Kitt, Hannah, Nell. In all--30. [4] |
Notes
1. Caleb Stone (overseer of carpenters), David Cowan and Philip Bateman (gardeners), and Andrew Judge (indentured tailor) were not on the 1772 list of tithables.
2. The total number of tithables in Truro Parish remained the same as the previous year. Several slaves were moved from one farm to another; a few disappear from the list, and a few new names appear. Some of those who appear for the first time may have been too young to be listed in 1772. James and Isaac, tradesmen, are probably the two slaves GW bought from Robert Washington in April. See GW to Fielding Lewis, 20 April 1773, n.12.
3. Alexander Cleveland replaced James Cleveland as overseer on the River farm in Fairfax Parish.
4. There is a total of ten more slaves on River farm than in 1772, including a few new to Mount Vernon. Ned may be the slave of that name bought by GW in February 1773 from the Colvill estate. At the same time he bought a girl, Murria, who was probably too young to appear on the tithable list. See Ledger B, 21.
ALB, DLC:GW. Reprinted W.W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig, eds., The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 7, June 1767-December 1771 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993), 238-39. See source note in Memorandum, 1758-59.