Mary (Davis) Myers (abt. 1750 - aft. 1820)

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Biography

Mary, married George Miers or Myers. It appears that George Myers lived in Culpeper County from 1758 through 1770, according to a researcher who who states that the earliest record found for him in Pittsylvania County was in 1779.^[1]

George Miers is listed with 200 acres in the 1782 Pittsylvania land tax.^[2] George Miers is listed in the 1782 Virginia census with 9 whites and one black in his household.^[3]

George Miers appears in the 1785 Pittsylvania County tax list (on the same page as his father-in-law William Davis and his brother-in-law Thomas Meade) with one adult slave, two horses, and 11 cattle. He appears in the 1788 tax list with 2 white males over 16, 1 adult slave, and two horses. (For this and most later years, the tax list doesn't show the number of cattle.)

In the 1789 tax list George "Myers" now has 4 white males over 16, 1 adult slave, and two horses. This corresponds to the three witnesses to William Davis's 1790 will being William Miers, Jacob Miers, George Miers, Jr. the three eldest sons of George.

Sources

1. ↑ Per the Germanna Colonies forum archive.
2. ↑ Per 1782 Land Taxes Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
3. ↑ Per the 1782 Pittsylvania County census