Tax Payers of Perry County, Indiana
A complete list of the tax payers of June and July, 1815 follows. Perry County was then much larger than at present—see Changes in Boundary.
John Askins, Edward Askins, Thomas Adams, David Allen, John Alvey, Michael Arterbury, William Arterbury, Simeon Arterbury, Fanny Asbury, John Alvey.
James Bristoe, Peter Barber, Grace Barber, John Bristoe, John Barber, Beulah Blanchard, Joseph Boultinghouse, Lewis Burditt, George Barger, Thomas Bolding, William Bentley, William Bailey, James Bodine, Valentine Borer, William Blanchard, George Burchard, Jonathan Beard, Jesse Barber, Obedient Beard, William Black, Jesse Baker, James Brown.
Delilah Canady, John Cummings, Jesse Crocker, James Critchelow, Benjamin Clark, Robert Clark, Archibald Constant, Ignatius Cameron. Andrew Carmichel, Terrence Connor, John Connor,. William Connor, Dade Connor, John Crist, Jacob Crist, John Claycomb, Samuel Connor, John Cassidy, Sarah Cummings, Josiah Cummings, Uriah Cummings, William Cummings, Andrew Collins. John Cooper, Jacob Coustin, Abraham Casey, Cornelius Cain, Russel Cain, Joseph Conn, Ishmael Connor.
Barnett Dewitt, John Davis, Richard Dozier, Adam Dozier, Thomas Drinkwater, Paul Drinkwater, Joseph Drinkwater, Henry Drinkwater, Archibald Dicus, John Dodson, William Dean, Jacob Davis, Richard Dean, Theodorus Davis, Stephen Dean, William Depriest, Joseph Driskill, John Davis.
James Edmondson, Isaac Eastage, Jonathan Esarey, John Ewing, Samuel Eslick, Thomas Ellis, Abner Edwards.
Abraham Fulton, William Fisher, James Field, John Frakes, James Fortenbury, William Frymire, John Farris, Ezekiel Fisher, Robert Field.
William Gibson, Adam Glaze, William Gilbert, Samuel Glenn, Jesse Green, David Groves, John Gerber, John Gregory.
Esther Howell, James Hendricks, Jonathan Humphrey, Daniel Hendricks, Jesse Hoskins, Uriah Hamlin, Abraham Hobbs, George Hutchinson, John Hedden, Joseph Hanks, John Hensley, Elias Hedden, Abraham Hiley, Samuel Harding, James D. Hammond, Michael Huffman, George Huffman, Daniel Hazel, Elisha Hoskins, Ning Hoskins, David Hornbeck, John Hosley, Aquila Huff, Samuel Hazel, Richard Hazel, William Hoskins, William Hicks.
Andrew Jones, James G. Jones, Runnel Jeffers.
John Kinder, William King, Samuel Kelsey, Alexander King Joseph Kincaid, William Kelley, James Kellums, Isaac Kellums Rachael Kellums, William Kelley.
George Litherland, John Litherland, Solomon Lamb, Beulah Lamb, Bethsheba Lamb, William Logsdon, John Logsdon, Thomas Logsdon, Pruda Lynch, William Landess, Isaac Landess, John Lightner, John Lee, Reuben Lovell, Ezra Lamb, Israel Lamb, John Lanman, George Lanman, James Lanman, Uriah Lamar, Benjamin Lamar, Samuel Lamar, William Lamar, Joseph Logsdon, Elijah Lamar, Peter Lehue, George Lindsey.
James McDaniel, Stephen McDaniel, Adam Miller, Abraham Miller, Benjamin Melson, Alexander Mahan, John Miller, Alexander Miller, John Morton, Robert Moore, John McWilliams, Samuel Morrow, Barton Malley, Jesse Morgan, Abraham Murphy, Daniel McLaughlin, Reuben Mills, Abraham Martin, Samuel Main, Samuel Martin, Asa Morgan, John Miller, William Mitchell, Thomas Morton, Joseph Melson, Hugh Masterson, Reuben Moore, Daniel Miller, Keten Murray, James McConnell, John Manley, John Moore, William Miller, Enos Mavell.
Edward Oller, William Osborn, Stephen Osborn, Jonathan Osborn, Solomon Osborn, Joseph Osborn.
Richard Potts, Thomas Polk, Charles Polk, John Polk, Richard Partridge (colored), Riggs Pennington, Francis Posey, Ezekiel Powell, John Pearson, John H. Phillips.
George Rowland, Ephraim Reed, Thomas Richardson, Amos Richardson, Daniel Ryan, Charles Roff, John Ruth, Ebenezer Richardson, Abraham Rounder, James Ross, Jesse Riddle, John Riggs, George Reed, Henry Rhodes, William Ray, James Ray, William Ritchey, Ezekiel Ray, James Rollins.
Moses Sandage, John Small, Benjamin Smith, Jacob Skeggs, Elisha Spencer, Jesse Sumner, John Scott, W. C. Scott, Moses Smith, John Sweeten, James Scott, Robert Smith, Jesse Shacklett, Eli Swinford, Joseph Springer, Elihu Springer, Elizabeth Springer, John Stephenson, John Stuck, Adam Shoemaker, Stephen Shoemaker, William Shrodes, John Shields, William Stark, John Snell, Thomas Sumner, John Sumner, Robert Sands, William Stansbury, William Sluett, Thomas Smith, Major Spencer.
William Taylor, William Thomas, William Tindall, Elisha Terry, George Tobin, Thomas Tobin, Jeptha Thurston, Ignatius Thompson, Bartholomew Thompson, William Taylor, Daniel Taylor, Benjamin Trenary, Obediah Vaughan, Thomas Vandeveer.
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.