Stephen Wade, Robert Wade Jr., Robert Wade Sr. - 7 tithes
On 10 June 1749 Lydell Bacon prepared a list that included:
Stephen Wade, Silvak Walker - 5 tithes; 15 crows heads
Edward Davis, Robert Wade - 6 tithes
The Lunenburg tithe list taken by Bacon in 1750 included:
William Stone, Robert Wade Jr., Robert Wade Sr. - 8 tithes
Robert Wade does not appear on Lunenburg tithe lists subsequent to 1750, but Stephen was counted in 1752 by Cargill:
Saml Harris, Stephen Wade, Charles Harris, Daniel York - 6 tithes
History of Halifax County, Volume II, Pages 1-4, April 1752
Deed Book 5, Page 57, on 9-19-1753
The first meeting of the justices for the newly formed Halifax County was made at the home of Hampton Wade on 19 May 1752. At this meeting Andrew Wade was appointed, with Henry Irby, to "take a list of tithables from the point of Fork of Dan and Staunton Rivers up to Buffalo upon Staunton." Before Halifax County was erected in 1752 from Lunenburg County, Robert Wade Sr. and his sons, Stephen and Robert Jr. were on a list of tithes in Lunenburg County in 1748, taken by Hugh Lawson for the area between Hounds Creek and Meherrin River: (Sunlight on the Southside: List of Tithes, Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1748-1783, Landon C. Bell, 1931, Reprinted Baltimore, 1974)
Hampton was a Sergeant in the Revolutionary War.
