David, Some time ago, while visiting and doing some family tree research in West Virginia, I visited the Marshall County Courthouse at Moundsville and I was allowed to look at the Table of Land Tracts books. The books I seen were from 1848 to 1895. I could not find the books for 1857 and 1858. These books are not in the main office of the county clerk. They are located in a vault outside of the clerk's office in a hallway. The vault was small and I would have to say it was not very neat in the vault either. I don't know what else they had in that vault but I hope to go back again someday to finish where I left off. Sometimes the people who work in the courthouse don't know half of what they got when it comes to looking for the old records. A researcher from Wetzel County found the naturalization paper of my third great-grandfather, John Ira PEGG Sr. in the Marshall County Order Book. I would never have known to look there myself. The clerk in the office told the researcher that they didn't know that they had that either. I hope the Land Tract Books is something you are looking for. As far as the tax records, I would not know about that but it is my opinion that they should be there in the courthouse someplace. I am not from Marshall County nor do I live in West Virginia but I have been to the courthouse there in Moundsville several times and I have had no trouble checking the old records. Good Luck John W. PEGG