Tax Payers 1815

Curtis Williams, Joseph Wright, Joshua Wright, William Webb, Joseph White, Rachel Winchel, Smith Winchel, Uriah Winchel, John Weatherholt, William Weatherholt, Jacob Weatherholt, James Wilson, Richard Williams, Daniel Weathers, Robert Walker, Thomas Wheeler, Joseph Wright, William Wright, Jesse Ward, Notley W. Arnold, James Wilson, Randall Wilson, William Woolard, James Wright,William Wright, David White, George Wilson, Jonathan Ward, Samuel Williams. Isaac Young, William Young, Berryman Young.

The total amount of county tax was $300.02, and of territorial tax was $73.80. Abraham Fulton paid the highest tax, $11.25; he owned 1,000 acres of first-class land. James McDaniel paid the next highest, $10.88; he kept a tavern at Troy, owned four horses and one negro. The next was John Stephenson, tax $7.07; he was in Township 5, Range 1. Grace Barber owned a black man—there being only two in the county in slavery. Charles Polk paid $6.53 tax, James Bodine $5.70, William Black $5.88 and Francis Posey $5.36. These were the highest.

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