The 1787 Montgomery County, Virginia Personal Property Tax List C

The 1787 Montgomery County Virginia personal property tax list was in three sections: List A, List B and List C.  I listed interesting taxpayers from List A in a previous post and from List B in this post.  The following are more taxpayers from List C.

Name that Skaggs: A Missouri Farm Boy

This Skaggs was born in 1911 and grew up on a farm in Grundy County, Missouri. He attended a one-room grade school and rode a horse three miles to high school. His father wanted him to take over the family farm, however, he liked designing and building gadgets and decided to go into science.  So he went off to college at the University of Missouri. His great-great-great-great-grandfather was Henry Skaggs the Longhunter.  Name that Skaggs.  The answer is below the fold.

The 1787 Montgomery County, Virginia Personal Property Tax List B

The 1787 Montgomery County Virginia personal property tax list was in three sections: List A, List B and List C.  I listed interesting taxpayers from List A in a previous post.  The following are more taxpayers from List B.

The 1787 Montgomery County, Virginia Personal Property Tax List A

The Harrell Collaborative put useful images of the 1787 Montgomery County, Virginia personal property tax list up on the internet for all to use.  This is an important list for descendants of Old Peter Skaggs because it is the year before Old Peter and Martha were married in Montgomery County.  Also, it was the year after William Lester and Rachel Skaggs were married in the same county.  There are some interesting taxpayers on the list and others who are interesting in their absence.

Old Peter Skaggs vs. Richard Damron

I recently found a reference to a court case in October court 1818 in Floyd County, Kentucky involving a lawsuit between Richard Damron and Old Peter. If the link doesn't work the reference is film 1844112, page 544 in vol. A of the Floyd County order books. Remember, at this time Lawrence County had not yet been split from Floyd.  It's interesting who was involved in the lawsuit.