On the 1778 Tax List of Rowan County Jacob Grimes was listed in Capt. Lopp's District. On the 1783 Rowan County Tax List of Capt. John Lop (Lopp?) Jacob Grimes has 300 acres of land, 2 horses/mules, 5 cattle, total value 24 pounds. It seems to me that I have seen a map that shows where these different districts are located. Maybe someone else knows of this map so you can find out where Capt. John Lop/Lopp's district was. Linda Monticelli -----Original Message----- From: Virginia Ruffin <v_ruffin@yahoo.com> To: Rowan List <NCRowan@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tue, 5 May 2009 5:24 pm Subject: [NCROWAN] Book - NC Tax Lists - by Jo White Linn Rowan County, North Carolina Tax Lists, 1757-1800, Jo White Linn Annotated Transcriptions Does anyone chance have this book? I wondered how it was arranged and how much information it gave that would help on the location of the property being taxed....and if it were indexed so that "neighbors" would show up. I'm trying to figure out what happened to the land that Frederick Miller deeded to his Jacob Grimes grandchildren in 1789. (Jacob Grimes married Catherine Miller) When the Jacob Grimes left NC and went to TN, there is no deed of sale (or at least I've not found it!). BUT, somebody must have been paying the taxes on the land,and I thought maybe we could trace it that way. This land was on Farmer's Creek - Abbott's Creek area. The eldest daughter, Mary, who married Jacob Smith, is someone we have never tracked, and I thought perhaps her family took over the land. If anyone has done Tax work in Rowan Co, I'd appreciate some tips. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCROWAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

The districts where the Miller's and Grime's lived are in what today is called Davidson Co NC. Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862