1757 Accomack County Tobacco Proprietors (Virginia) ---------------- APRIL 1757 --- 30th GEORGE II CHAP. XI. An Act for the relief of the sufferers by Tobacco burnt in Crutchfield's and Pitt's Warehouses, and for other purposes therein mentioned. I WHEREAS by an act of assembly made in the twenty-second year of the reign of his present majesty, intituled [sic], An Act for amending the Staple of Tobacco, and preventing frauds in his majesty's Customs, it is amongst other things enacted, That when any public warehouses should be thereafter destroyed by fire the loss thereby occasioned should be defrayed by the public. II. And whereas large quantities of tobacco have been lately accidentally burnt in the public warehouses at Crutchfield's, in the county of Hanover, and at Pitt's, in the county of Accomack; an account of which tobacco, with the names of the proprietors, as taken by the commissioners appointed for that purposes, is contained in a schedule hereunto annexed: Be it therefore enacted, by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council, and Burgesses, of this present General Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That John Robinson, treasurer, or the treasurer of this colony for the time being, appointed by or pursuant to an act of assembly, out of the public money in his hands, shall, on or before the last day of October next ensuing, pay to the sufferers respectively, with an interest of five per centum per annum from the time of passing this act, according to the several quantities by them lost, as mentioned in the said schedule, after the rates following, that is to say: For the crop tobacco passed at Crutchfield's warehouse twenty shillings per centum; For the transfer tobacco passed at the said warehouse two pence per pound; and for tobacco refused at the said warehouse and put by to be picked twelve shillings and six-pence per centum. And for the crop tobacco passed at Pitt's warehouse thirteen shillings and six-pence per centum; For the transfer tobacco passed at the said warehouse twelve shillings per centum; For tobacco viewed and put by to be picked eight shillings per centum; and for the tobacco burnt at the said warehouse before it was inspected nine shillings per centum..... Pitt's Warehouse. Crop Tobacco Passed. Owners Names Marks Numbers. Nett quan. Edward Kerr A P* 1 960 do C C 7 1022 do G T 1 1015 do B 3 958 do W C 1 978 Bowdoin Robins B R 1 979 James Scott and Archibald White G D 2 983 do 1 950 do 2 955 do 3 951 do 4 954 do 5 952 do 6 930 do ST 1 985 Edward Kerr, for Transfer Tobacco made Crop, 8780 Transfer Tobacco Thomas Milman 45 Catherine Pitts 102 Francis Welburne 220 Robert Pitt's Executors 2267 Ephraim Waggaman 28 James Goutee 346 James Parker 1006 Edward Thornton 28 Thomas Bevans 57 Isaac Hill 251 Bartholomew Scot 46 John Townshend 14 Covengton Corbin 967 William Cord 235 James Scot and Archibald White 304 Tobacco Inspected and not Picked Daniel Mifflin 5 hogsheads Quantity 4300 Uninspected Tobacco Henry Crosby 150 Obediah Thornman 80 Bartholomew Scot 20 [Note. Where the Asterism * is prefixed, the Letters should be in a Piece.} ------------------------ Submitted by Gwen Hurst Transcribed from: Hening, William Waller 1820 The Statutes at Large; Being A Collection Of All the Laws Of Virginia From The First Session Of The Legislature, In The Year 1619. Volume VII. Franklin Press, Richmond, Virginia (pages 127-130). **************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. **************************************************************** Contributed by Gwen Hurst