Day book of the 6th Virginia Regiment in the Revolutionary War

Pat Roberts told our group of h2Morrison researchers that she had a copy in her files and piles of the Day book of the 6th Virginia Regiment in the Revolutionary War.  I believe she explained to us that she had made her copy at the Denver Library.  

All of our group seems to have descended from Patrick Morrison who was living in Pittsylvania County, Virginia during the Revolution.  Pittsylvania County was a hot bed of Patriotism for freedom from Great Britain.  And Patrick had at least four sons.  The three older sons joined the 6th Virginia Regiment and went off to war.  The youngest son was too young to go with them.  William, James, and John remained fought in every battle in the northern part of the Revolution....well perhaps not every battle....they were discharged at the end of their two year enlistment under Captain Peter Dunn at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania on 16 March 1778.  Unfortunately my knowledge of the battles is not good enough to make blanket statements without doing a bit of research.  It is son David who was too young too accompany his older brothers.

I am getting ready to go to the DAR library the first week in May for a conference hosted by the DAR.  One of my goals for the three day conference is to see and get copies of the Sixth Virginia Regiment Day Book 1776, 1777, 1778.  I have been told that the DAR holds the original book.  

Ronald found on line this weekend a book that is in the Brock Collection at the Huntington Library.  If you would like to see this digital copy of this book, it is available at:

https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll7/id/29070

Physical Collection	Collection and papers of R. A. Brock. Orderly Books of the American Revolution.
Part of Object	Orderly book of the 6th Virginia Regiment (Brock Collection)

Ronald and I agree that this is almost certainly not the book that I am hoping to see in DC. Ronald has taken the time to read through the book at the Huntington library and says that there is nothing in this day book that specifically refers to our ancestors.  Thus I am not taking the time to read the book at this time.

DNA match to me on chromosome #1

I do not usually blog dna matches because of the privacy concerns.  However, last week I had such craziness that I want to document my matches.  I will not give kit numbers nor name names.  But I will offer clues that help me to remember what I was looking at. 

It started with an e-mail from gedmatch.  I get e-mails a lot and I almost always delete them from FTDNA, MyHeritage, GEDMATCH, Ancestry....telling me that I have a new match.  But when I click on them the person has no tree or for all sorts of reasons is not of interest.  But I wasn't very busy that morning and I thought,....what the heck....I'll take a quick look.  I read the directions and was able to find the new match.  I have written the kit number in my Beurhing autosomal folder. 

It was a very small match.  Less than 10cm on Chromosome #1.  It did not match mom...so it must be on Dad's side.

When I checked dna painter I had already identified the segment as having come to me from my 2-gr-grandfather Frederick Konig Dannenburg Beuhring,  It did not come from his wife as the match that I used to paint this segment comes from Fred's second wife while I descend from his first wife.  But much to my surprise, when I used the triangulation tool on gedmatch, I had 43 matches on the segment all over the world!  

And even more fun, I had one match with an woman in her 80s who lives in St Petersburg, Russia.  This is where our family folklore says that Frederick Konig Dannenberg Beurhing's mother's family were living before the move to New York before 1796.

Botetourt County, Virginia

 I am cleaning out my inbox this morning.  This includes reading e-mails that I have saved so that I can delete them.  My entire focus this weekend has been to file "stuff" where I can actually access the "stuff". The Virginia Genealogical Society sent me a newsletter this month that is of interest.  It is a website that has maps for the tax districts in Botetourt County from 1770 to 1780.

Here is what Botetourt county looked like in 1770

By 1780 Greenbrier County and Montgomery County had been carved out:

https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~george/countyformations/virginiaformationmaps.html

The information in the First Quarter Newsletter for the Virginia Genealogical Society has an article written by Jim Jackson and Bill McAllister 

Taxation in Colonial Virginia

For taxation purposes, the county courts in colonial Virginia subdivided their territory into discrete units— tithable districts. The courts appointed county magistrates—list owners—to generate lists of all potential taxpayers residing within each district. The list owners were required to submit their completed tax lists to the court by 10 June each year. Rather than affecting only land and property owners, this tax was imposed upon all individuals of a certain age who lived within a specified area, and therein lies the usefulness of these lists.

Here is the URL for the new website:

https://frontiervirginia.com

Later in the newsletter VGS added the definition of a tithable which is very helpful for research purposes:

Definition of a Tithable

In 1748, the Virginia legislature consolidated its previous laws defining tithables with an amended definition: “That all male persons of the age of sixteen years and upwards, and all negroe, mulatto, and Indian women of the same age, except Indians tributary to this government, and all wives of free negroes, mulattos, and Indians, except as before excepted, shall be and are hereby declared to be tithable, and chargeable for defraying the public, county, and parish levies, of this colony and dominion...”.1 The act went on to specify several conditions for exemption.

1 William W. Hening, ed. The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619...[1809–1823], V6, Chap. XXI, 41-44.

I highly recommend joining Virginia Genealogical Society so that you are able to enjoy the benefits of these newsletters.  I have filed this newsletter on my computer in documents>Genealogy Research Aids.

There was a great deal of helpful information besides what I have written above.