{"id":1723,"date":"2015-12-29T06:49:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T06:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2016-01-04T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T18:35:00","slug":"ancestry-coms-early-tax-list-records-1783-1895","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1723","title":{"rendered":"Ancestry.com&#8217;s Early Tennessee Tax List Records, 1783-1895"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ancestry.com has a database on their site titled\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/click-865524-10470501-1449535196000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D2883\">&#8220;Tennessee Early Tax List Records, 1783-1895.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0The years covered for specific counties varies greatly from one county to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/click-865524-10470501-1449535196000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D2883\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1726 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/tn-taax.jpg\" alt=\"tn-taax\" width=\"232\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a>another and users of the database need to be aware that not all counties have lists from 1783 through 1895.<\/p>\n<p>The images in this post are for individuals from Davidson County in 1811:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aquilla Jones<\/li>\n<li>Absolom Hooper Senr.<\/li>\n<li>Nemiah Hooper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They are listed in a portion of the 1811 tax list for Davidson County taken by Samuel Shannon in\u00a0what appears\u00a0to be the region of the county that contained\u00a0Capt. Cloyd&#8217;s Militia. The numbers are only significant as a means to count the number of taxable men. Care was taken to not just include the names of interest in the image.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/tennesseetaxlistsheading.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/tennessee-tax-lists.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1725 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/tennessee-tax-lists.jpg\" alt=\"tennessee-tax-lists\" width=\"843\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/tennessee-tax-lists.jpg 843w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/tennessee-tax-lists-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jones married a daughter of Absalom Hooper, Senr. The proximity of the Jones and Hooper names on the list would lead one to infer that they lived somewhat\u00a0close to one another. However it&#8217;s possible they didn&#8217;t. All the list explicitly states is that they are living in Cloyd&#8217;s district. The size of the district is not stated, but determining how many names are in the district would give a idea of how large it was. Any statements made suggesting that the Hoopers and Jones\u00a0lived as neighbors should reference their proximity on the tax list as the reason.<\/p>\n<p>Moving earlier in the list located the heading for this 1811 list from Davidson County. It indicates that the list is of &#8220;free taxable inhabitants&#8221; in Davidson County. It is possible that the 1811 act is more specific in terms of who qualifies as a &#8220;free taxable inhabitant.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1724 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/tennesseetaxlistsheading.jpg\" alt=\"tennesseetaxlistsheading\" width=\"725\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/tennesseetaxlistsheading.jpg 725w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/tennesseetaxlistsheading-300x97.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/>Lessons from what&#8217;s currently available on\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/click-865524-10470501-1449535196000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D2883\">&#8220;Tennessee Early Tax List Records, 1783-1895:&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Don&#8217;t just copy<\/strong> the name of the person of interest<\/li>\n<li><strong>Determine<\/strong> what part of the list your ancestor is on. There may be geographic clues in that list&#8211;emphasis on maybe.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Find the heading<\/strong> for the entire county&#8211;there may be additional clues there.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Learn<\/strong> about who was included in the list&#8211;what got someone listed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Don&#8217;t just search the index<\/strong>&#8211;determine what years are included for your specific county of interest.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Download adequate citation<\/strong> information as well&#8211;county, year, page, and district within the county.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancestry.com has a database on their site titled\u00a0&#8220;Tennessee Early Tax List Records, 1783-1895.&#8221;\u00a0The years covered for specific counties varies greatly from one county to another and users of the database need to be aware that not all counties have lists from 1783 through 1895. The images in this post are for individuals from Davidson County [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}