Hi Rick, Do you know if there still lists of this tax in existence? Hans Hannover, Germany ----------------- Nachricht geschrieben von INTERNET:BALTGEN-L@rootsweb.com > It was a tax levied in 1798 by the U. S. government that had a description of the owner's dwelling, number of slaves, number of acres, other buildings on the property owner, and an adjacent land owner. It has nicknames as the "window tax" or "glass tax" because part of the tax was based on the number of glass windows. Rick Saunders http://genealogypro.com/fsaunders.html <

At 10:35 AM 4/19/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Hi Rick, > >Do you know if there still lists of this tax in existence? > >Hans >Hannover, Germany >----------------- >Nachricht geschrieben von INTERNET:BALTGEN-L@rootsweb.com >> >It was a tax levied in 1798 by the U. S. government that had a description >of the owner's dwelling, number of slaves, number of acres, other buildings >on the property owner, and an adjacent land owner. It has nicknames as the >"window tax" or "glass tax" because part of the tax was based on the number >of glass windows. > > THis list does exist, some of the data was extracted and published a few years ago "The Particular Assessment Lists for Baltimore and Carroll Counties 1798 by George J Horvath Jr. There were really 3 lists: the book above it from the 2nd list: first list was a general listing of land dwellinghouses, warfs, slaves on 1 OCt 1789 the second list was the "the Particular assessment list" the third list was a list of people who were to pay the tax with the amounts All three lists are on microfilm at the MD Historical Society Lee