Botetourt County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Court.....Minutes, County Court November 1784
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Source: Annals Of S W Virginia
Written: November 1784

November 10, 1784.

    The Court proceeded to lay the levy.

    Sheriff ordered to collect 64 pounds of tobacco from every tithable in the
County.

    Thomas Pryor allowed 38 pounds 14 shillings.

    Philip Love allowed 12 pounds 8 shillings on his account.

    Wm. Crow allowed 17 pounds 1 shilling 8 pence for keeping William Duncan to
this day.

    Pat Lockhart gave bond for collection of County Levy, with Thomas Bowyer and
David May his securities.

    John Smith and William Anderson placed under bond for good behavior for a
year and a day.

    Ordered that the delegates have the Assembly pass an act to revise a former
act authorising the several counties to appoint Commissioners of the Land Tax,
the time named in the said act for the appointment having expired before the act
came to hand, by reason whereof the County is without Commissioners.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Annals of Southwest Virginia
1769-1800

BY LEWIS PRESTON SUMMERS

Member of American Historical Association, Virginia Historical Society; Alumnus
University of Virginia and Tulane University (Louisiana); Member American Bar
Association, Virginia State Bar Association

Author of

HISTORY OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
1740-1786

WASHINGTON COUNTY VIRGINIA
1777-1870

PUBLISHED BY
LEWIS PRESTON SUMMERS
ABINGDON, VIRGINIA
1929

COPYRIGHT, 1929, BY
LEWIS PRESTON SUMMERS

MANUFACTURED COMPLETE BY THE
KINGSPORT PRESS
KINGSPORT, TENNESSEE
United States of America


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