Now Available from the Stewart County, Tennessee Archives
Stewart
County, Tennessee Tax Lists, 1804-1840
Compiled by Jim Long
Description: This 370-page book contains a transcription of
21 Stewart County, Tennessee tax lists from the years 1804 through 1840. It is the first-ever compilation of early tax
lists for the county, and includes 4 tax lists that have survived but have
never been microfilmed (1806, 1807, 1839 and 1840). The book contains an every-name index, with
over 4,000 names and 100 place names.
Tax
lists are an excellent alternative to census records, since tax lists were
compiled every year, and listed all white males aged 21-50, all landowners and
all taxpayers. The earliest census
available for Stewart County is 1820, but there are 9 tax lists prior to 1820
that have survived in whole or in part.
Tax records can often pinpoint birth years and are an excellent source
for proving residency in a county.
Table of Contents: Introduction • Tax Lists for 1804, 1805,
1806, 1807, 1808, 1809, 1810, 1811, 1812, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832,
1833, 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839 and 1840 • Full-Name
Index • Place Index
About the Compiler: Jim Long has been doing genealogical work in
Stewart County records for more than 30 years.
He is a part-time volunteer at the Stewart County Archives, and is the
County Coordinator of the TNGenWeb Stewart County Genealogy web site (http://www.tngenweb.org/stewart/). He has previously published Stewart County Tennessee Marriages Revisited, 1804-1881
and Stewart County, Tennessee Circuit
Court Minutes, Vol. 1 & 1A, both of which are available from the
Stewart County Archives.
“For the last 35 years, I
have used tax records to help locate the father of a child born before 1850,
and it was a ‘slow go’ looking at every district on microfilm. Now with this new book with its index, I can
find the answers in a fraction of time.
This book is a tremendous help to researchers, and I highly recommend it
to everyone doing genealogy.”
– Lawrence Saunders, long-time Stewart County
genealogist and Treasurer, Stewart County Historical Society
List Price $ 40.00; Pages:
370, linen cover with comb binding; Publication: February 2011
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