I want to thank Marty Hiatt, CGRS, one of the country's top professional genealogists and an author of many works on the subject plus until recently Executive Director of the Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG), for explaining the significance of the "N. Judy" entry in the household of John Champe in the List of Tithables for Loudoun Co. VA, 1767. I thought I might have a clue to the later connection of the Judy family with the Champes...it was, after all, Ida Mabelle Judy who wrote the book "John Champe, the Soldier and the Man," (in which she confused him with his father), and there was one Judy-Champe marriage in WV in the late 1800's.

Anyhow, Marty should know. She was the coauthor of the work in which I found the N. Judy citation, ("Loudoun Co., VA List of Tithables, 1758-1786;" two volumes, 1995, by Marty Hiatt and Craig R. Scott), and she informs me that the upper or lower case N before a person's name in these lists refers to Negro and indicates Judy was a slave.

I am enlightened, but saddened, I guess.