Hi: In the message sent by Suzy with the subject: >Tax Lists of Crawford County 1821/1829< For people searching the Rootsweb archives for their names I want to note that there are unusual spellings on that list of early settlers by Clara Eno. And, so that this message goes into the archives with the names for which these researchers MIGHT be looking I am pasting the entry again below with my opinion as to the real names. I imagine that Belo might be Bellow or Bellows; Billengoly is Billingley or Billingsly or Billingsley; Caps can be Capps or Capp; Coxe is probably Cox; Joy could be Jay; Linsey might be Lindsey or Lindsay; Marrow might be Morrow; Wagnore could be Wagner; Makwell may be Makewell, Maxwell or Mackwell; Mres might be Myers or Meyers or Muir; Peerhouse and Pirhouse are most likely Pevehouse. I stymied by these: Monds, Moose, Pero, Reffield & Stagner. Are they for real???? Give me your opinion. Eno was reading the cursive handwriting in these old records so it was difficult to dicipher. But, we want to give their descendants every chance to find them. Regards, Nan 71532.734@compuserve.com ------------------------------------- It should be noted in this era of time Crawford County extended from the southern boundary of Pope County to a little north of Fort Gibson and was mainly on the south side of the Arkansas river, present Crawford County belonged to the Osage. In 1828, under treaty with the Cherokees that moved that tribe further west, the Cherokee country automatically became a part of Crawford County. The original tax list, written in long hand on paper and about 8in x 9in is found at the Arkansas History Commission Rooms... There were 96 names on the original list, items on which taxes were paid included: Dwelling houses, slaves between 10 and 45 years, wheeled carriages, horses, mules and jacks, meat cattle over 3 years old and stud horses... William Bradford, Robert Belo, Robert Buchanan, Andy Buchanan, William Black, Adam Baty, John Baty, Joseph Baty, George Britton, Mark Bean, Richard Bean, James Billengoly Jr., Alex Buchanan, James Buchanan, Augustine Campbell, John Caps, Larkin Caps, Johnson H. Caps, Coleman Coxe, John Cureton, William Cureton, Henry Cureton, John Cunningham or Cureton, Thomas Cwuton, Jonathan Clark, John Davis, Samuel Davis, John Davidson, Nicholas Edward, Elijah Edwards, Fred Fletcher, William Gibson, William Grey, Robert Gibson, James Gibson, Isaac Hensley, John Joy, William Ingram, Vincent Lickens, Clark Landers, William T. Larrimore, Thomas linsey, William Makwell, Samuel Marrow, Job Monds, John B. Moose, Wesley Mres, John McClain, John Moose, George Marrow, Larkin Newton, John Newmans, Barzella Newton, Joseph O'Neal, Cyrus Parks, Squire Pirhouse, Christearo Peerhouse, Hugh Pierce, John Pierce, Peter Pero, George Riley, Joseph Reffield, Charles reffield, William Stagner, Hugh Shannon, Isaac Shannon, Henry Stinnet, John S. Stinnett, Reuben Sanders, James Simpson, Smith, Soloman Sharp, Baby Stinnett, Thomas Tyner Sr., Aaron Tyner, Thomas Tyner Jr., James Turner, Mathew Turner, Samuel Washburn, Herald Wilson, Thomas Wagnor, Britton Wicker, David Williams, John Wilson, Joseph Wilson, James Wilson, William Stinnett............................ *********** The above information comes from a book titled "History of Crawford County, Arkansas", written by Miss Clara B. Eno and published by the "Press Argus" of Van Buren, Arkansas... I can not find a copyright date on this book <very old looking though>, and the first page states, "This Book is Not Copyrighted, It's Contents Are for the Good of All People Who Love America- and Free Use of All Material, With Proper Credit, Is Guranteed by the Author and Publisher"... In a nutshell my own humble opinion of books that reference public data, so even though Miss Clara B. Eno has been dead many years, hats off to her memory for the excellent work she did in her lifetime! *************** Regards, Nan 71532.734@compuserve.com