----- Original Message ----- From: Elreeta Weathers <ecw@htcomp.net> To: Mitzi Freeman <SETraveler@freeman.usit.com> Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 12:51 PM Subject: Re: [TNWHITE] Tax Records > Residents had to pay property taxes. Many of the early property > tax roll--including those for White County, TN--were typed by WPA > workers prior to WWII. We copied (via pencil and paper) tax > records from such a book in East Tennessee Historical > Center--McClung Historicl Collection, Knoxville, TN. > > "Transcriptions of the County Archives of TN #93, White County > (Sparta) Tax Book 1811-1815" prepared by the TN Historical Records > Survey -- WPA April, 1940, The TN Historical Records Survey." > > The data in the books had been typed on onion skin paper with > carbon paper and thence was considered too delicate for > photocopying. > > For defense purposes all adult males had to register whenever they > moved into a new county. The tax lists are by militia companies, > i.e. "Capt. Isaac Privet's Company of Militia for the year of > 1811.' > > Elreeta Weathers > > ---------- > > From: Mitzi Freeman <SETraveler@freeman.usit.com> > > To: TNWHITE-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Fw: [TNWHITE] Fw: Pirtle > > Date: Monday, August 23, 1999 11:23 AM > > > > PLEASE REPLY TO : bereach@peoplescom.net > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Bonnie Reach <bereach@peoplescom.net> > > To: <TNWHITE-L-request@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Sunday, August 22, 1999 10:21 PM > > Subject: Re: [TNWHITE] Fw: Pirtle > > > > > > > > > > Does anyone know about the poll tax in TN in 1811 and 1812. > To what age > >