Finance ✦ Penny’s Take
Personal Property Tax Lists of Buckingham County, Virginia 1764-1792
Randy F. McNew Crouse · 2017
70/100
👍 Worth It
For the narrow audience it serves, this is exactly what it needs to be — a careful, comprehensive primary-source transcription of 12,000-plus colonial Virginia tax records with a thorough 160-page index. FamilySearch cataloging and WorldCat listing confirm specialist utility. The documentation of enslaved persons by name is historically necessary and carries real emotional weight for some researchers. If Buckingham County, Virginia is your research territory, this is a genuine resource.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: historical documentation of enslaved persons · may carry emotional weight for genealogical researchers working through ancestral slavery connections. We still scored it 70; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety84
Substance / usefulness74
Craft & writing68
Originality72
Evidence & accuracy80
Hype vs delivers68
Age-fit25
👁 Human-eye gut-check70
Penny’s verdict70
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