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Albemarle County (Va.) Samuel Miller Township Account Book, 1871, is a rough draft taken by a township official of the personal property and land taxes for that year. Included tax personal property tax categories are furniture, plate, bonds, capital, income, dogs, livestock, books, tools, farm implements, watches, clocks, and pianos. Included land tax categories are residence, fee or life, number of acres, description, bearing and distance, calue per acre, buildings value, and value of land and buildings. Taxed persons are listed alphabetically with the personal property tax lists preceeding the land tax lists. Following the tax lists are lists of births and deaths for 1871, other data on county residents listed as white and colored possibly for the purposes of county levies, and a list of licenses for 1872-1873. Page 13 contains a partial letter of apology composed to an unknown person and page 121 consists of a Latin lesson or practice. Several pages have been cut or torn from the book.

Albemarle County (Va.) Samuel O. Moon Receipt Book, 1824-1841, is a volume of receipts kept by Moon as he conducted business as constable for Albemarle County. The majority of entries in the book concern payments to satisfy executions for money judgments. Additional entries included are various agreements and contracts in which Moon was a party and may or may not be official county business.