Help with a Hasten Poe

Question

I'm researching a Hasten Poe of Chatham County (1782-1853), North Carolina. I came across a 1910 news article that says he was from Spotsylvania County, Virginia (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89193438/the-chatham-record/) and says he "came to this place many years before the war from Spotsylvania county, Virginia". (This is in the Chatham Record)

I found a tax list that shows seven Poes from Virginia. http://www.binnsgenealogy.com/VirginiaTaxListCensuses/1790index/1790P-index6.htm

But I'm unfamiliar with post-Revolutionary War Virginia and don't know if any of them are from Spotsylvania county. I'm wondering if anyone from that area can help me possibly identify his father. I know the 1790 Census is gone, so I'm not sure how to research folks from that area and time.

He was born about 1782 and married a woman in NC in 1804. This is his familysearch profile: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LHFP-5R4

Comments

Of the locations listed for them, three are counties themselves - York, Culpeper, and Henrico. The City of Winchester is within Frederick County. Looking at [this webpage] - an interactive map where you can see 1782-1790 counties - Culpeper is the closest but it's still not Spotsylvania County.

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No, but it is close. And the article says he "came from" Spotsylvania County. It's certainly possible that the family lived in Culpepper County and then moved into Spotsylvania County before he left for NC.

I looked at the tax list for Culpepper, and there are actually two Poes listed; Samuel and William. The date is 1791, so, IF one of these two men is his father, he would have been about eight years old at the time.

You wouldn't happen to know what the columns in those tax lists represent, would you?

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the column headings are on the binns page you cited, but if you're asking what "1791PersonalA" means, it's for locating the record. The two Poes in Culpeper are both on page 17, 1791PersonalA, which leads to

http://www.binnsgenealogy.com/VirginiaTaxListCensuses/Culpeper/1791PersonalA/17.jpg 

If you're asking what the column headings mean on that page, from https://www.census.gov/history/www/through_the_decades/overview/1790.html -

The six inquiries in 1790 called for the name of the head of the family and the number of persons in each household of the following descriptions:

• Free White males of 16 years and upward (to assess the country's industrial and military potential)
• Free White males under 16 years
• Free White females
• All other free persons
• Slaves

Answer 1

If you haven't seen it, you might want to look at this website.  

It's a researcher suggesting that Hastin Poe is the son of William Poe (d 1799), with some source cites.

https://www.poegen.net/Studies/NC/PoeHastenOfPittsboroStudy.htm

Might be some help back in Virginia.

Comments

Thanks for that, Roger. William shows up in the tax lists from Culpeper County, which adjoins Spotsylvania County, where the news article about Hasten Poe claimed he was from. So, that's another piece of evidence that Hasten was William's son and did indeed come from Virginia.

UPDATE: I found a deed in Chatham County where Hasten Poe conveyed to Winship Stedman, his father-in-law, 334 acres of land "being the shares allotted to Hasten Poe and Delilah Poe in the division of the lands of William Poe, deceased". So, William Poe is confirmed as his father.

The remaining questions are who was William Poe's father? And was William Poe originally from Virginia?