1809 Grainger County, Tennessee Tax List,

abstracted by Pat Spurlock Elder, copyright 1987-2005

Used here with her kind permission.

 

"By the provisions of the act of 1797, the justices were authorized to take lists of taxable property and polls in carious captains' companies of the militia. White polls were "all free males and male servants, between the age of twenty-one and fifty years;" slaves, "all slaves male and female, between the age of twelve and fifty years." On Monday, 3 Nov 1809, the Grainger County Court ordered ten justices to take the list of taxable property and make their returns at the next court session. The returns were made February 19, 20, 21, 1810. The amount of tax was omitted on the copy I abstracted from.

The headers for the following list are 1) on each 100 acres 12.5 cents 2) each town lot 25 cents 3) each free poll 12.5 cents 4) each black poll 25 cents 5) each retail store $5.00. The acreage is listed after item 1.

Polls and Taxable property in Captain William Mayses Company of Militia returned by Moses Hodge

John Goan, 90 acres North Holston, Young's Creek, no polls

Claiborne Goan, 100 acres North Holston, Young's Creek , 1 free poll

Henry Ivey, 150 acres North Big Ridge, no poll

Ivy, Philip, 50 acres North Big Ridge, 1 free poll

Thomas Ivey, 15 acres, North Big Ridge, 1 free poll

Benjamin Ivy, 1 free poll

Baxter Ivey, 50 acres, occupant, Young's Creek, 1 free poll

John Ivey, 10 acres, occupant, 1 free poll

James Goan, 1 free poll

Edmund Bolling, 1 free poll

Sherod Mays, 100 ac Cove Spring + 50 acres South Holston

Logan Mays, 50 acres South Holston

Gooden Mays, 50 acres South Holston

List of polls and taxable property in the bounds of Captain Elisha Williamson's Company returned by Henry Boatman

Bolding, David, 1 free poll

Bollon, James, 1 free poll

William Goan, 1 free poll

Shaderick Goan, 1 free poll

James Goodman, 1 free poll

Martha Ivey, 150 acres (location not given)

List of polls and taxable property in the bounds of Captain John Bull's Company, returned by John Moffet

Caleb Gowin, 1 free poll

List of polls and taxable property in the bounds of Captain William Copeland's Company returned by Joseph Cobb

William Bean, 1 free poll

Thomas Bunch, 245 acres on German Creek, 1 free poll

Heirs of Robert Bean, 320 acres B. Station G. Creek

List of Polls and Taxable Property returned by William Clay in the bounds of Captain Richard Cotses' Company

Samuel Bunch, 180 acres at Richland, 1 free poll

Samuel Bunch for John Spencer, 2

John Bunch, Senr. 187 acres R. C. , 2 polls (black?)

John Bunch, Senr. 200 acres R. Knobbs, 6 (black?) polls, 4 other polls

Joseph Branham, 127.5 acres R.C., 1 free poll, 2 black polls

 

Captain Samuel Richardson's Company returned by David Tate Captain Samuel Richardson's Company returned by David Tate

William Guynn, 200 acres, 1 free poll

Captain Thomas Sharp's Company returned by Mathew Campbell

Jeremiah Cole, 1 free poll

Daniel Goan, 338 acres R. Creek, 1 free poll

Robert Gains, 150 acres R. L. McNabbs, 1 free poll

Captain George Gifford's Company returned by Charles McAnally

Griffee Collins, 1 free poll

Thomas Collins, 1 free poll

Thomas Collins, 1 free poll

Joseph Collins, 1 free poll

Dowell Collins, 1 free poll

Conley Collins, 1 free poll

Captain Brutan Peter's Company of militia returned by Thomas Brown

Robert Fields, 210 acres F. Creek, 1 free poll

Lewis Adkins, 1 free poll

Richard Adkins, 1 free poll

Captain Thomas Norris' Company returned by William Parkison

 

John Mullins, 1 free poll

Robert Nash, 1free poll

Thomas Nash, 1 free poll

David Bollin, 1 free poll

Stephen Bollin, 1 free poll