Maybe someone can answer this... Begin forwarded message: > From: alienor <[email protected]> > Date: Tue Jan 20, 2004 05:32:41 AM US/Eastern > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NewCastle] Tax Assessment Records > Reply-To: [email protected] > > On a trip to the Delaware Archives, I copied some tax assessment > information from 1777, 1778 and 1779 on the > Cole family of New Castle County, but it > has led to some confusion. Does anyone on the list know at > what point a person would have been placed on the list? > I know it wasn't land ownership, because these folks rented. > Was there a particular age at which a son would be separately > taxed? Either the later census records regarding these > people are WAY off, or they were being taxed as young > as 16 years of age. That doesn't seem right, but the census > records are very consistent. > Thanks to anyone who can shed some light. > Linda McDaniel > >