Listing of Sources by State Tennessee Tax Records Federal The 1796 Constitution levied taxes on every freeman of the age of twenty-one years and upward possessing a freehold in the county wherein he may vote, and being an inhabitant of this State, and every freeman being an inhabitant of any one county in the State six months immediately preceding the day of the election, shall be entitled to vote.... View full context Listing of Sources by State Tennessee Tax Records Federal Many early surviving tax records were published in an effort to replace the missing federal censuses (see Census Records). Original extant tax records are preserved in the respective county courthouse as well as in the Tennessee State Library and Archives, where a card index exists for tax records in its collection pre-dating 1835, arranged by county, date, and district. Some early original tax lists are available in the McClung Historical Collection at the Lawson McGhee Library (see Archives, Libraries, and Societies), including those for Washington County, 1778 and 1787; Greene County, 1783; Carter and Sullivan counties, 1796; and Grainger County, 1799. View full context Listing of Sources by State Tennessee Tax Records Federal Original tax schedules for most Tennessee counties for 1836 through 1839 are available at the Tennessee State Library and Archives. In addition, the Indiana State Library, the FHL, and the Allen County Public Library (see Indiana) have microfilmed copies of early Tennessee tax records. View full context Listing of Sources by State Tennessee Cemetery Records Federal The 1891 tax lists of male inhabitant voters in each county were recently found. Available on microfilm at the Tennessee State Library and Archives, these nine reels are arranged alphabetically within each district in each county. Tax records from trustees office in counties are available on microfilm as well. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com