Evening star., 1916-10-08
, Branch Land Holders Before the Civil War

Mrs. s. Evans was assessed at $5,7lo.
having 100 acres. two horses. three cows
and slaves
In 1868 in that part Of the District
beyond the Eastern branch the richest
man. according to the assessors was
still George Washington Young, who
was assessed at $50. 400 on Giesborough
and S11,250 on Nonesuch. Second to him
was George Washington Talburtt who
was assessed at S57.46O on 327 acres
(now partly covered by Anacostla):
Fenwick Young was assessed at s33..
800: George w. Duvall, $4,000; Thomas
w. Berry of Moxley. Blue Plains and
Belleview. $32.545. Thomas Jenkins of
Thomas. sl5.525; Mrs. Rebecca Sears,
$4,000; Samuel c. CLANCY. s1l 500: Mrs.
Susan Sheriff. $4,000; Miss Emiline
Sheriff. $4,000: John F. W. Dean. sl3.-
$50; Selby Scaggs. s25.S 500; James Dan.
forth. $500: Alexander Garden. sIe-
100; S. NJ. Golding. sl2.5oo; Col Henry
Naylor, s2S.s5o: George NaiIor, sto.Iss:
]. V. n. Huyck. s6.250: John A. Smith.
$29,700: L. Williams $4,000; Alexander
Moffatt, sl2.650; John H. Wheeler. So
$40; Anthony Addison. sl0.l0S: George
Barber. $4,000: John A. Middleton. with
217 acres of Belleview. $4,000: Miss
Eliza Berry, 1o9 acres of Belleview,
S6.540. and A. l.. Berry i09 acres of
Belleviaw, $3.50.
Among the other large and moderate
landholders and taxpayers were J. p
Waring. John Manning. Mrs W. A.
Waring, Francis Y. Nailor. William r.
Lacy. w. p. McKeiden. T. w Farr, Mir
ROD Farr. George w. Lightner. J. T..
Kennedy, 7. r. Brightwell j. F. s
Holiday. James Fowler. Alexander Nc
Cormick, r. B. Griffin. A. H. Hutchins.
John Gregory. Frederick X. Lawton.
Flortan Frederick, Mrs. Benjamin p
Smith, Charles Robey. James Robey.
Robert Thompson. s. ]. Grimes. Philin
H. Otterback and heirs. Dionysius
Beall. James r. Boisseau. Reuben
Worthington. Richard Moore. H. W.
Wadsworth. J. T. Jenkins of Smoot,
Thomas Anderson, Mrs. James Little.
John Moreland, Theodore Mosher,
Sayles J. Bowen. Thomas Berckley.
William Marbury. Charles Howard.
Mrs Adelaid Wilson. Charles J. Stew
art. Mrs. Leonidas Coyle. Charles a.
Krause. r. r. McClelland. c. W. WAL
ton. Stedman West. Mrs ID. r. Hall,
Mrs William Trimble. DR.. Daniel Lee.
Michael Cation, Henry Walker. Benja-
min Taber. Robert A. Payne, Sidney
Talbert. Thomas E. Clarke, Zacharia
Heyden. Rev. Charles A. Hall. Henry
A. Linger. Fielding Magruder. Thomas
Perkins. Alfred Grimes. Woodbury.
Wheeler. Moses Kelly, Mrs. Eliza Jen-
koenig, Benz. F. wilkins. William
Schultz. Reuben Bearley. Dr. William
Maddox. John Thorp. John s. Dorr.
Clement Thompson. Mrs. Henry Hardy.
John Marshall, Mrs. Ann A. Livingston,
II. S. HALEY, Moses r. Farnham and
George Thomas
The assessment books of the District
are not to be accepted as guide to
the wealth of the Eastern branch land
holders without reservation, because
some of them lived in Maryland their
holdings tapping over into the District
and many of them living in the District
and their farms running into Maryland.
One of the notable of these instances
with which the Rambler is familiar
was the case of Anthony Addison,
whose principal estates were in Mary
land and who was assessed at $4,000
for that part of his land which lay
within the District. There were nu-
merous other cases of this kind.