Persons of interest

in the 1799 Franklin County Virginia Tax List.

(Listed by order of importance.)

Jim Hartsell, March 26, 2008
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HARTZELL: Philip is the only Hartsel/Hartzel/Hertzel found in the tax lists for the 65 Virginia counties currently available. To see those counties, click here. About 25 counties are yet to be made available as of March 26, 2008.
These are ancestral family members, or people who interacted with my ancestral family through marriage, migration from Pennsylvania, land transactions, neighbors, or the migration to Ohio and Indiana. Most of the names are from the Blackwater River Valley, west of Boones Mill and north of Algoma, in the area where Adam Hartzell lived in 1810.

Since the 1800 Census for Virginia was destroyed, this tax list serves as a substitute.
However, the list below is only from personal property tax records, not land tax records.
Columns in the tax lists are:
(1) Name of taxed individual, (2) White male tithables over 16, (3) Blacks over 16, (4) Blacks over 12 and under 16, (5) Horses etc., (6) Stud horses, (7) Licenses, (8) tax, dollars, (9) tax, cents.
It looks like there was a tax of $0.12 per horse. $1.00 in 1800 is equivalent to about $12.05 in 2007.
See heading example.

Click on name to see the tax list page (this is the person charged with a tax).
By "tithable white male over 16", it must mean a working person in the household.
Note: spelling was actually "Hartzell", not "Hartsel", according to Jonas Hartzell's 1816 letter.

Hartsel, Philip
My ancestor.
Moved from Pennsylvania, purchased land in Franklin County VA in 1792.
1799 Personal B list, page 11: 1 tithable white male over 16, 1 horse, tax $0.12.

(Hartsel, Abraham)
Not listed, as expected. Son of Philip Hartzell.
Purchased 23.5 acres in Franklin County, VA in 1796.
Had gone to Kentucky before 1798, then to Montgomery County, Ohio around 1798.
Purchased land in 1805 north of Germantown, Montgomery County, Ohio.

(Hartsel, Adam)
Not listed. Son of Philip Hartzell.
Since Adam is not listed, this suggests that he was still in Pennsylvania, and validates that Adam's son Leonard WAS born in Pennsylvania (in 1799). Adam was married, and had several children in his family by 1799. Adam was in Franklin County VA in 1810.

Sink, Abraham
Possible brother of Adam Hartzell's wife Christina Sink.
Lived near Philip Hartsell in Pennsylvania.
Settled near Philip Hartsell in Franklin Co., VA about 1792.
1799 Personal B list, page 20: 1 tithable white male over 16, 1 horse, tax $0.12.

Sink, Stephen
Possible brother of Adam Hartzell's wife Christina Sink.
Settled near Rocky Mount, Franklin County, VA.
1799 Personal B list, page 19: 2 tithable white male over 16, 3 horses, tax $0.36.

Griffith, George
Sold 150 acres in Franklin County, VA to Philip Hartzell in 1792.
1799 Personal B list, page 10: 1 tithable white male over 16, no tax.

Mullendore, Jacob
Married Katarina Hartzell, daughter of Philip Hartzell.
Settled in 1802 on present site of Ellerton, Jefferson Township, Montgomery County, Ohio.
1799 Personal B list, page 15: 1 tithable white male over 16, 3 horses, tax $0.36.

Moss, Edmond
Lived next to George Hartzell in Franklin County, VA in 1810.
Lived next to George Hartzell in Union County, IN in 1820.
George was a presumed cousin of Adam Hartzell; married Susannah Toney in 1809 VA.
George moved to Union County, IN, around 1815.
1799 Personal B list, page 15: 1 tithable white male over 16, 1 horse, tax $0.12.

Toney, William
(Not sure if this is Sr. or Jr.)
Lived near Adam Hartzell in Franklin County, VA in 1810.
Lived near George Hartzell in Union County, IN in 1820.
1799 Personal B list, page 21: 1 tithable white male over 16, 1 horse, tax $0.12.

Lybrook, Philip
Lived near Adam Hartzell in Franklin County, VA in 1810.
Settled in Union County, Indiana near George and Susannah (Toney).
1799 Personal B list, page 14: 1 tithable white male over 16, 2 horses, tax $0.24.

Greer, Moses, Sr.
Witness to recording of Philip Hartzell's 1792 land purchase.
Land was next to Abraham Hartzell's 1796 land purchase in Franklin County, VA.
His son Moses Greer, Jr. was County Recorder in 1818.
1799 Personal B list, page 9: 2 tithable white males over 16, 3 Blacks over 16, 10 horses, tax $2.42?

MORE INFORMATION AND NAMES TO BE ADDED ...