Joseph Herndon

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    According to the 1790 Fluvanna County land tax records Joseph had in household one male above 25, one male under 21 and one black over 16.  Doesn't look like the records included white females.  Reuben (probably Joseph's son) had one male over 25 and three males under 25.
    
    In a letter to JGH dated 24 January 1938 Mrs. Delphia Jane (Herndon) Dickerson wrote, in part as follows: "Just recently while driving out from town on Franklin Turnpike, I noticed that the famous old Capt. Doctor Aaron Herndon's red brick house was being razed, much to my sorrow and regret for it had been a famous landmark bearing historical fame. Pleasant Gap was a post-office and directly across the Turnpike was the colonial type brick house. Artists liked to paint the old house so I know of two who have splendid pictures of the house and probably will keep them among their exhibit pictures."
    
    Thomas Hall Herndon, uncle to JGH, received a letter from John A. Herndon, Sr., Superintendent of Schools, Danville, Va., dated "Mch 28 1891 ", now in the possession of JGH. It is one of the earliest genealogical letters he has. It reads in part as follows: "We are not able at this writing to trace our ancestry further than to Great Grand father, whose name was Joseph Herndon. His last residence was in Fluvanna County, Va, where he owned a good estate and reared a large family of boys and girls, the boys largely predominating. All of them, we are advised, were respectable and useful citizens with probably one exception, Robert who became a victim to the dire monster, drink, but never otherwise disgraced the name. I make and enclose herewith a diagram which though very imperfect may be some guide."