This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: LYON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RSB.2ACE/1615 Message Board Post: would like the entry in the 1790 census for Richard Tankersly Lyon or Richard Lyon. thanks in advance Lorraine Robinson lorirobin@msn.com

Lorraine, the 1790 US Census for Caswell Co NC was destroyed, and the US Census Bureau uses instead a tax-list substitute. Therefore, we get an alphabetised list of taxpayers' names and what district they lived in, but we get no information about family structure or age. In the eight districts that were then in Caswell Co NC, only one has a Richard LYON, and that was Saint Luke's District. This is one of the four districts which the following year, in 1791, became Person Co NC. There were four taxpayers in this district surnamed LYON: Richard LYON Peter LYON Henry LYON Jane LYON Of the eight districts that were then in Caswell Co NC, only two had any LYON taxpayers. The other one was Caswell District, which remains in Caswell Co NC today and occupies roughly the northwestern quarter of it. In Caswell District were these: Robert LYON Sen. Robert LYON Jun. William LYON Lin Van Buren Surrey, England At 10:36 06/05/2002 -0600, lorirobin@msn.com wrote: >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. >Surnames: LYON >Classification: Query >Message Board URL: >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RSB.2ACE/1615 > >Message Board Post: >would like the entry in the 1790 census for Richard Tankersly >Lyon or Richard Lyon. >thanks in advance. Lorraine Robinson lorirobin@msn.com