Granted I have not looked at that many Kentucky tax lists, but those I'm viewing for Washington County, Kentucky, have something I've not seen in other tax lists. Each list is arranged in the usual way by first letter of last name. There is one list for the year for the entire county-- not divided by "captains" as I've seen in some. Along the left margins are dates ranging from May through September-- most being in May through July. There are not very many days represented in each month -- perhaps two or three, but sometimes only one. There are many names listed under each date, so each person is not individually dated. AND the dates are not in order. So you might have May 27 with a few names, and then June 10 with a few names. Then back to April 12 with a few names. Sometimes there is only one name associated with a date. I'm wondering how this might have been created, and wondered if anyone would know. I at first thought that entries were made spread out in order to allow additional entries. Then the scribe returned and filled in the gaps when he ran out of space. Would the groups of people on a particular date represent those who happened to come into a town on a particular date, or might he have been traveling about the countryside rating the land? If he was traveling perhaps those listed on the same dates in the various letters of surnames were living in the same general area. I have thought that a useful exercise might be to try to reconstruct the list as the assessor did to see if some logical reason springs to mind, but I thought I'd ask first if anyone already knows. ;-) Patti