Rowan Listers - Do any of you know if the absence of a male's name on the 1759 Tax List (see below) indicates that an adult male living in 1759 was definitely NOT living in Rowan County? Or can the list only indicate who was there? A description of the list I am referring to is: 1759 ROWAN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA TAX LIST This tax list was found between the walls of the old court house by Wm. D. Kizziah, Register of Deeds. When found, it was but scraps of paper, but was fitted together and transcribed by him. This list was made before Rowan Co, NC was divided into other counties and is the oldest tax list ever found in Rowan (to my knowledge). It contains no figures and is not typed here as copied. I have put the "a's" together, the "b's together, etc. When a slave or negro is listed with another's name, I left those names as they appeared on the typed list. Some names in the "b's" were torn off or could not be read. They are listed at the end of this page. There is a copy of this list, as transcribed by Mr. Kizziah, in the Rowan County Library, Salisbury, NC. The list itself can be viewed at: ftp://rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nc/rowan/taxlists/tax1759.txt Thanks. Steve Steve O'Neal [email protected] --------------------------------- Discover Yahoo! Get on-the-go sports scores, stock quotes, news & more. Check it out!

No, the absence of being on the list, does not mean they were not there. As an example, I am looking at Jo White Linn's abstracts of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions Minutes for 1759. At just one day of court I see names John BREVARD (who was a court justice, while other justices were listed), Jacob LASH (another justice), James HAGAN (there are other HAGGANs on the list), Alexander LAWRENCE, James STUART (there are other STEWARTs on the list), Peter FLEMING, and Thomas BASHFORD that do not appear on the 1759 list. At a spot check of other names in the 1759 court records, I see many that do not appear on the list. Rick Saunders http://genealogypro.com/fsaunders.html -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005

Considering that the list was damaged, a name could easily have been lost, unreadable, or misread. What was found might also have been less than the entire original list. I'm not sure if a man who didn't own property yet would have been included, either. Elaine Oakes >>Do any of you know if the absence of a male's name on the 1759 Tax List (see below) indicates that an adult male living in 1759 was definitely NOT living in Rowan County?