LUNENBURG COUNTY, VIRGINIA

SMITH FAMILY

Tithables Lists 1748 - 1764

See Also

Abbreviations and Notes

Table of Content

District Boundaries Table

Detail Table (Ten Families)

Appearance Table (Eight Families)

The ten surnames that were searched in this test project are Bruce, Green, Gregory, Haile, Overby, Pettypool, Sizemore, Smith, Vaughan and Wilkins.

Key Dates to Remember: 1752 Halifax (including present day Pittsylvania, Henry, Franklin and Patrick) was split off; 1754 Bedford (including present day Campbell) was split off; 1765 Charlotte and Mecklenburg were split off.

Warning. The lists in each county were made by a Tithables List Taker” who were appointed by the Court each year. As you may surmise, these may change often. The courts sometimes tinkered with the district boundaries. A pioneer may switch districts, yet had not moved. The lists were first written on separate sheets of paper then later assembled into books. Some districts for some years are simply missing. If the taxpayer was late in paying their tax bill, they might not appear. Some years may have two Tithables List Taker for a given year.

Abbreviation Key: The first line has the initials of each Tithables List Taker for that year. The second line is the number of tithes (white men over the age of 16) paid by the pioneer. Each tithe may include: the male Head of Household, his sons and any other male in that household whether or not they are related to the Head of Household. If a female pays a tithe, it means she has one or more sons over the age of 16, or other males in the household. In 1764 only, a third line, if present, is the number of acres owned.

If there is a 0 in the tithe, for it means someone else paid the tithe (usually a father or mother) and the payor’s name is usually listed; or, in some cases, the person is an adult “overseer” who manages the plantation for the Head of Household.

Currently, the only way to access these tithables lists are to go “old school” and either: travel to the Library of Virginia to use their microfilm scanners; or (1) order the microfilms from the Library of Virginia through Interlibrary Loan to your local library (if it has microfilm readers or preferably microfilm scanners). Either way, this is very time consuming. You have to read old cursive writing for page after page.

Have fun!

Name

County

1748

1749

1750

1751

1752

1753

1754

1755

1756

1757

1758

1759

1761

1762

1764

Agnes Smith

Lunenburg

LB

5

TT

5

Benjamin Smith

Lunenburg

JHW

1

Benjamin Smith

Lunenburg

JSp

1

Benjamin Smith Pd by Richard Smith

Lunenburg

WE

0

Benjamin Smith Pd by Benjamin Smith

Lunenburg

MM

0

Benjamin Smith

Lunenburg

HD

1

HD

1

Benjamin Smith

Lunenburg

TBe

1

TBe

1

Charles Smith

Lunenburg

CC

0

Charles Smith

Pd by John Wilkerson

Lunenburg

DG

0

Charles Smith, Miller

Lunenburg

DG

7

Conrad Messr Smith

Lunenburg

JSp

1

HD

2

Drury Smith

Lunenburg

CC

0

Eliza Smith

Lunenburg

TT

1

Guy Smith

Lunenburg

RW

3

Henry Smith

Lunenburg

WC

1

Guy Smith

Lunenburg

RW

5

HD

5

Isaac Smith

Lunenburg

LB

0

Isaac Smith Pd by William Gordon

Lunenburg

LB

0

James Smith

Lunenburg

CC

2

CC

1

CC

3

JSp

3

JSp

3

JSp

3

James Smith

Lunenburg

JSp

1

JSp

2?

JSp

1

James Smith & John Bush

Lunenburg

HD

2

James Smith

Lunenburg

FJ

1

James Smith

Lunenburg

DG

1

John Smith

Lunenburg

 LB

6

John Smith

Lunenburg

WC

1

John Smith

Lunenburg

CC

1

JSp

1

JSp

1

John Smith

Lunenburg

JT

1

John Smith

Lunenburg

JhW

2

John Smith

Lunenburg

JC

1

John Smith

Lunenburg

WC

4

John Smith Pd by Eliza Smith

Lunenburg

TT

0

TT

2

John Smith

Lunenburg

JT

1

John Smith

Lunenburg

LB

1

LB

1

Joseph Smith

Lunenburg

JSm

1

LB

2

LB

2

John Smith

Lunenburg

MM

1

Luke Smith

Lunenburg

CC

1

Luke Smith

Lunenburg

CC

1

Luke Smith

Lunenburg

WC

1

WC

1

WC

1

Luke Sr Smith

Lunenburg

CC

8

CC

8

Luke Sr Smith

Lunenburg

CC

6

Luke Jr Smith

Lunenburg

CC

0

CC

6

Luke Jr Smith

Lunenburg

CC

0

Mathew Smith

Lunenburg

DG

1

Obadiah Smith

Lunenburg

CC

4

CC

4

CC

5

RY

4

RY

4

CC

5

JT

2

ET

6

Peter Smith, Pd by Richard Smith

Lunenburg

JJ

0

LB

0

WE

0

Peter Smith

Lunenburg

LB

1

Peter Smith Pd by Agnes Smith

Lunenburg

TT

0

Richard Smith

Lunenburg

HL

4

JJ

8

LB

8

WE

9

MM

8

Samuel Smith

Pd by James Littel

Lunenburg

WC

0

Thomas Smith

Lunenburg

JSp

4

HD

4

Thomas Smith

Lunenburg

JSm

1

Thomas Smith

Lunenburg

LB

1

LB

1

Timothy Smith 1759 Pd by _____ Taylor

Lunenburg

JSp

2

Jsp

0

ET

1

Thomas Smith

Lunenburg

JhW

2

Thomas Smith

Lunenburg

TBe

1

Sources: Landon C. Bell, Sunlight on the Southside, List of Tithes Lunenburg County, Virginia 1748-1783; and microfilm from the Library of Virginia.

Library of Virginia, Lunenburg County Microfilm: 411 (1748-1750, 1753-1756) Filmed 2007; Lunenburg County Microfilm 429 (1751-1752) Filmed 2008 and Lunenburg County Microfilm 411 (1748-1750, 1753-1756) Filmed 2007.

Compiled By: David H. Robertson, 159 Hickory St., Roswell, GA 30075 davidhr@hushmail.com