Does anyone know what is meant by Black & White Polls, as in the following? Seems to have something to do with taxes: Minutes of September Court 1790 [Franklin Co.NC} Insolvent (to wit) Elisha Stallions 2 poll Robert Coggin Junr. 100 acres of Land & 1 poll in Capt Myricks District JeSse Books w 2 Black polls, William Jackson 1 White poll, Jeremiah Jackson 1 poll John Jackson 2 polls. By the way, I've added an internal search engine on my website which should cut down on the time you have to browse around (unless you just want to browse around). Plan to do a lot of scanning this weekend so you can see original document copies, since I don't have time to transcribe everything. Ya'll come. Mark Murphy Researching Murphy(+variations) and associated families (Hight, Crews, etc) in Texas, Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~freshnup/markmurph/

As I under it NC imposed a head tax on males for a good many years, called the poll. There are columus on tax list for white polls and black polls. A tax of twenty cents was charged for each white and blackpoll. all free males between the ages of 12 and 45 had to pay the tax; all slaves between the ages of 12 and 50 were taxed as one black poll. Mark Murphy wrote: > Does anyone know what is meant by Black & White Polls, as in the > following? Seems to have something to do with taxes: > > Minutes of September Court 1790 [Franklin Co.NC} > Insolvent (to wit) Elisha Stallions 2 poll Robert Coggin Junr. 100 acres > of Land & 1 > poll in Capt Myricks District JeSse Books w 2 Black polls, William > Jackson 1 White > poll, Jeremiah Jackson 1 poll John Jackson 2 polls. > > By the way, I've added an internal search engine on my website which > should cut down on the time you have to browse around (unless you just > want to browse around). Plan to do a lot of scanning this weekend so > you can see original document copies, since I don't have time to > transcribe everything. Ya'll come. > > Mark Murphy > Researching Murphy(+variations) and associated families (Hight, Crews, > etc) in > Texas, Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~freshnup/markmurph/ > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog