1799 Tax List P - Y

The numbered sections cover the following:

  1. “Persons named in which the land was [illegible]”
  2. “Persons named for whom the land was Surveyed”
  3. “Persons named for whom the [land] grant [was] issued”
  4. Number of white men above 21
  5. Number of white men of 16
  6. Number of blacks of 16
  7. Total number of blacks
  8. Number of horses
  9. Number of stud horses
  10. “Those come since 10th of March [illegible]”
Date Name Acres Waters 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
June 27 Porter, Thomas Pond Creek1 1 2
July 4 Phillips, Fredrick 100 Pond Creek Jno. Nort(?)
Daniel Rhodes		 Ditto Do 1 3
July 6 Penish2, Jeremiah 200 Clifty Do Do Do 1 2
July 13 Payton, Thomas 200 Cypress Ditto 1 1
July 19 Perkins, John 1
July 23 Perkins, James 1
July 12 Peplar3, 4, Michael 1
Pipkins, John 1
June 27 Roßes5, Lenox 200 Pond Creek Ditto 1 1
June 27 Ragland, George 1
June 29 Rhodes, Daniel 400 Plum Creek Geo. Mathews Ditto Do 1 3
June 29 Robison, David 1 2
July 6 Robertson, Robert 200 Pond Creek Josiah(?) Downen(?) Robt. Robison 1 1
July 6 Rust, Isaac 1
July 9 Robinet, John 200 Cypress Ditto Do 1 2
July 9 Read, John 200 Cypress Ditto Do 1
July 10 Reno, Lewis 1 1 2 3 2
July 10 Riggs, Abram 200 Cypress Ditto Ditto 1
July 23 Russel, John 1
July 23 Russel, Samuel 1
June 27 Smith, John 150 Pond Creek Henry Rhodes Ditto Do 1 1 2 7
200 Pond Creek John Smith Ditto
170 Pond Creek Eli Smith Ditto
200 Magdalen Smith Jno. Smith
200 Green River Geo. Clark Ditto
100 Green River Jno. Morivillon Jno. Smith
June 27 Sears, Jacob 150 Pond Creek Ditto Do 1 2
June 29 Severs, Jacob 200 Pond Creek Ditto Do 1 2
June 29 Sanders, Hubbard 500 Caney      Russel Do Do
200 Muddy6      Russel Do Do
422 Indiancamp7      Russel Do Do
June 29 Smith, Eli 1
July 1 Sever, Fredrick 200 Pond Creek Ditto 1 1 1
July 1 Sever, John 200 Pond Creek Ditto 1
July 1 Smith, James 200 Pond Creek Ditto Do 1 8
July 1 Smith, William 100 Beech Ditto Do 08 1 1 3
100 Hazel Do Do
July 1 Smith, Bailey 1 1
July 1 Simmuman9, John 1 2
July 3 Stephens, William 1 1
July 3 Shiock10, Christian 1 1
July 6 Salisbury, Thomas 200 Pond Creek Do Do 1 2
July 11 Smith, Elijah 1
July 13 Shutt, Peter 200 [Illegible] Do Do 1 1 2
July 19 Shenner(?), Henry 1 1
July 19 Smith, George 1 1
July 19 Stanly, David 1
June 28 Tinsley, James 200 Nelson Ditto Do 1 3
June 28 Tennell, John 1
July 10 Tennell, Daniel 1
July 9 Tennell, George 1 1
July 10 Tyler, Richard 200 Cypress Saml. Jackson Ditto 1 1 3 3
July 11 Throgmorton, Joab 1
July 12 Tanner, William 1
July 13 Taylor, Jacob 1 1
June 29 Uncell, Henry 200 Pond Creek Ditto Do 1 2
June 29 Uncell, Fredrick 1 1
July 19 Uzzell, Elijah 1 3
July 1 Vaught, John 200 Pond Creek Ditto Do 1 2
July 1 Vaught, Gilbert 200 Pond Creek Joab Downen Gilbt. Vaught Do 1 1 2
July 12 Vawn11, John 1 3
July 19 Vawn, Joseph 1 1 2 4
July 19 Vawn, George 1 3
June 27 Wooten, Elijah 200 Pond Creek Ditto Do 1
June 27 Williams, John 200 Pond Creek Ditto 1
June 27 Ward, Thomas 200 Cypress Ditto Do 1 1
June 27 Ward, James 1 1
June 27 Ward, William 1
June 27 Ward, James Jr. 1
June 28 Whitley(?), Elijah 200 Pond Creek Ditto Do 1 2 5 2
June 28 Walters(?), Thomas 200 Pond Creek Ditto Do 1 3
June 29 Wing, Charles 1
July 1 Williams, Noah 200 Pond Creek Ditto Do 1 2 1
July 1 Warden, Joseph 1
July 1 Wolfe, Jacob 1
July 8 Williams, Edward 200 Pond Creek Ditto Do 1
July 8 Williams, Stephen 20012 Pond Creek Ditto Do 1
July 8 Wooten, Wm. 200 Pond Creek Ditto Do 1
July 9 Worthington, William 200 Green River Ditto Do 1 1 1 4
200 Cypress Jacob Gish Wm. Worthington
200 Cypress Jacob Morman(?) W. Worthington
200 Cypress David Jordan W. Worthington
July 10 Willy, William 1
July 10 Wilkins, Willis 1
July 11 Worthington, James 1 2
July 11 Worthington, Andrew 1 4
July 11 Worthington, Benjamin 1 2
July 12 Westbrook, Dempsey 1 2
July 13 Welly13, Jacob 1 1
July 13 Welly, Robert 1
July 13 Welly, Stephen 200 Cypress Ditto Do 1 1 1
July 14(?) Walker(?), David 1
[illegible] Williams(?), Matthew 1
July 19 York, James 1

Muhlenberg County Sct.
I do hereby Certify that the seventeen foregoing pages contain a true list of Taxable property taken by James Weir one of the Commissioners for said County for the present year, agreeable to the Vouchers filed in my office. Given under my hand this 29th day of July 1799.
C. Wing C.C.

136 Slaves8.50
348 horses[information blotted out]
3 stud horses[information blotted out£1   14.0
39664 Acres 2nd39.66
1400 Acres 3rd.87
[Total]57.08

Note: Monetary denominations are Sterling Pounds, Shillings, Pence.

Notes:

  1. This information may belong to Fredrick Phillips. Thomas Porter is listed without any acreage.
  2. Penish = Penick(?)
  3. Whole line is very light, making the name difficult to read.
  4. Peplar = Poplar(?)
  5. Roßes = Rose(?)
  6. Logan Co., Kentucky
  7. Hardin Co., Kentucky
  8. The number 0 is actually written in the space for Number of men over 21.
  9. Simmuman = Simmons or Simeon?
  10. Shiock = Shyrock?
  11. Vawn = Vaughn or Vaughan
  12. Third rate land
  13. Welly = Welty(?)