Mr. Heinegg
Heartfelt Thanks for the tips regarding the 1813 tax list and posting it. Because of your hard work and your posting on this forum, on Friday I found possible female ancestors - Mahala, Letty, and Betty Shaw in Culpeper County in your 1813 tax list whom I had initially found in the 1840s Rappahannock census and nowhere else, except Thomas Shaw in Rappahannock county on the 1837 and 1813 tax lists. I also found a register of freedom for Mahala Shaw in 1843 in Rappahannock court minutes and I found a free mulatto named Mahala Shaw in the 1850 census for Page county - not sure if she is one and the same - but it is possible. Page county is not far from Rappahannock county.

As I was composing this letter, I just realized that I had not looked for my ggggrandfather Samuel Lawler on the 1813 list - I guess I was so excited on Friday I forgot to check all possible surnames. I just looked and found a Samuel Lasetor! I will need to look at original or microfilm of the tax list to see if it is a mispelling but that is close enough to be a possibility! In 1840 he and the Shaws are neighbors and I have traced him back to 1810 census. He married Elizabeth Shaw! They are my great great great grandparents - the farthest back I have gone! Thank you again for what you are doing and have done to further this area of historical and genealogical research!!

Ruth