I have been on a quest to find more information about my 5x great grandfather...I was recently given this information about him being on a Tax list and he is listed as having no land but is taxed on 1 poll. Also on this list is a Jordan Gibson...
These records were found by Susan Higgins Williams a fellow cousin and an avid researcher of the Gibsons....
https://www.familysearch.org/records/images/image-details?page=1&place=393039&lifeEvent=105057&lifeEventRecordTypes=124032&rmsId=TH-909-71612-85793-45&imageIndex=116&singleView=true&fbclid=IwAR1JoDSvbggHMm5xB6RtXDB8MtTNXY5LGb4CeCKn0vZgCXjiHrmlDCcHoZc
So we can find Valentine Collins in Rockingham County, North Carolina in 1786...
After talking to another cousin, Patrick Nichols, informed me that the law was changed in 1784 to this...
Acts of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1784
North Carolina. General Assembly
April 19, 1784 - June 03, 1784
Volume 24, Pages 543-649
-------------------- page 543 --------------------
LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA, 1784.
At
a General Assembly begun and held at Hillsborough, on the Nineteenth
day of April, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and
Eighty Four, and in the Eighth Year of the Independence of the Said
State: Being the first session of this Assembly. Alexander Martin, Esq.,
Governor.
CHAPTER I.
An
Act to amend an Act, intituled, An Act for ascertaining what property
in this State shall be deemed taxable property, the method of assessing
the same, and collecting public Taxes.
I.
Be it Enacted by the General Asembly of the State of North Carolina,
and it is hereby Enacted by the authority of the same, that all lands as
described by the aforementioned Act, town lots with their improvements,
all free males and servants twenty-one years old or upwards, and all
slaves male and female between the age of twelve and fifty years within
this State, shall be subject to the payment of public taxes, and the
public taxes on such property and persons shall be assessed and
proportioned as follows, viz: All lands shall be liable to be taxed by
the quantity, and freemen and male servants twenty-one years old and
upwards, and slaves male and female between the age of twelve and fifty
years, shall be subject to a poll-tax.
Thank you Patrick for this information...So we now can put Valentine Collins born about 1765...
I haven't searched any other records in Rockingham County other than land records looking for Collins where I did find that a William C. Collins and his wife Hannah sold their property in 1854...https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSYD-8S4P-6?cat=386882
I am not sure if this could be Valentine's brother or cousin or what...but it gives us another clue!!
