This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------268139701C24 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Since posting my query about the possible existance of Tax lists for Rowan Co. other than the 1759, the following was learned about the book mentioned. If not just for the tax lists, this is good "library search list" to take to the library with you. Another book, "Rowan co. NC Tax lists, 1757-1894", implies there is also a 1757 tax list!!. Annotated transcription by Jo White Linn Thanks to several of you for your input. -- JC Halbrooks 357 Snake Meadow Hill Road, Sterling CT 06377 USA jcdha@attglobal.net HOLBROOK, HALBROOK(S), etc. Stokes and area counties NC. --------------268139701C24 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="Erlyncta.wpd" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Erlyncta.wpd" >From the Margaret Hofmann catalog of books for sale: http://www.margaretmhofmann.com [SU-812] NORTH CAROLINA TAXPAYERS 1701-1786 By Clarence E. Ratcliff. This helpful volume lists names of taxpayer residents for Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Bute, Caswell, Chowan, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dobbs, Edgecombe, Franklin - Warren - Vance, Gates, Granville, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Orange, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Randolph, Rowan, Tryon, and Tyrrell which are about half the NC counties formed in 1786. Data was taken from the microfilm tax lists at NC State Archives and supplemented with material from the periodical North Carolina Genealogy. About 28,000 names in all. 228 pages $21.00 [SUP-522] NORTH CAROLINA TAXPAYERS 1679-1790 By Clarence E. Ratcliff. Gives the names of about 29,000 taxpayers from about 39 counties. 230 pages $25.00 >From Appleton's catalog of books for sale: http://www.appletons.com/genealogy/geneusbk.html North Carolina Taxpayers, 1701-1786, Volume 1 - Clarence E. Ratcliff #44-3403 - 228 pages, hardcover, 1999 (1984) - $20.00 This work lists the names of the taxpayers resident in about half of the North Carolina counties formed before 1786. The names of the taxpayers are listed alphabetically with the county of residence and date, and in some cases additional data is supplied. There are about 28,000 names. North Carolina Taxpayers, 1679-1790, Volume 2 - Clarence E. Ratcliff #44-3404 - 230 pages, hardcover, 1996 - $25.00 This book continues the work begun in North Carolina Taxpayers, 1701-1786 (see the previous book). With the exception of a few lists which were identified as redundant, it includes all the remaining North Carolina tax lists prior to the first federal census of 1790. The two volumes can therefore be used in place of an earlier census to identify individuals in relation to a specific time and place. --------------268139701C24--