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 THOMPSONs
on the Early Tax Rolls of Christian/Todd/Trigg Cos. , KY |
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here to view a table showing all THOMPSONs on Christian/Todd/Trigg Co.
tax rolls from 1797 to 1830, organized by watershed. There are no 1790 or 1800 Federal Censuses for Kentucky, so tax rolls are an alternative. It was not necessary to own land to be on the tax rolls, one could be taxed on the ownership of horses or slaves, and white males over 21 were taxed just for existing! However, citizens were sometimes exempted from taxes. The aged and infirm were often exempted as were widows with small children. And it appears that sometimes exemptions were granted for community service of certain kinds. So while death and taxes were/are inescapable, and the tax rolls are probably more complete than the census, even the tax rolls are not 100% complete. (Aged men were also exempted from road-building. A reading of the county court order book shows that as part of their civic duty, male citizens and their slaves were ordered to render a great deal of service to the county in the form of road-building. Some of this service may have led to exemptions from county taxes.) |
| Christian Co., 1797-1816
I've extracted the following from microfilm of the Christian Co. tax
rolls (Heritage Quest Microfilm, V20-72). This microfilm is of the
county record book, not the original tax lists. Names from the individual
tax lists were roughly alphabetized, then entered into the book, usually
by the county clerk and usually giving the date the list was received by
the clerk. So, while we've lost the potential ability to find "neighbors,"
I think there is some reason to believe that individuals who lived in the
same watershed and whose list was received by the clerk on the same day
were living in greater proximity to one another than those whose list was
received on a different date. Anyway, it's something to go on...
For a quick summary:
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| Christian Co., 1804-1823
The tax rolls of Christian from 1804-1823 have been transcribed and self-published by A.B. Willhite in four volumes (1804-9, 1810-13, 1814-18, and 1819-23), available for sale from the Christian County Genealogical Society. Unfortunately, the third volume (1814-18) is out of print. (If anyone has a copy they are willing to sell, please contact me!) Willhite's transcriptions are of the county record books, not the original tax lists. From 1804 to 1809, Christian Co. was divided into two tax districts:
from 1804 to 1806, into North and South districts; from 1807 to 1809,
into East and West Districts. Districts were abandoned, at least
for tax purposes, in 1810.
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Todd Co., 1820-1845
THOMPSON in 1840 Tax List - Todd County, Ky, Part 1 [link died] and Part 3 [link died] transcribed by Karen Combs.
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