Month: December 2018
Tax List 1787 – Davidson County, Tennessee
Tax List 1787 – Davidson County, Tennessee
History of Davidson County, Tennessee, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, by Prof. W. W. Clayton, J. W. Lewis & Co., Philadelphia, 1880, Reproduced by Higginson book Company, 1996, p. 58
Names of persons who were in Davidson county, in 1787, being the first year in which the tax on land and polls was taken, being (white) males over twenty-one years, three hundred and seventy-two and blacks one hundred and five between twelve and sixty years old.
Name | Number of Taxables | Name | Number of Taxables |
Armstrong, William | 1 | Anderson, Henry | 1 |
Allard, Hardy | 1 | Armstrong, Francis | 2 |
Bradshaw, H. | 1 | Boyles, H. | 1 |
Boyers, H. | 1 | Berry, William | 1 |
Baker, Nicholas | 1 | Baker, Reuben | 1 |
Baker, A. | 1 | Borin, B. | 1 |
Borin, William | 1 | Boyd, James | 1 |
Bell, Hugh | 2 | Bushnell, __ | 2 |
Baker, Joshua | 1 | Boyd, John | 2 |
Bosley, James | 17 | Bell, John | 2 |
Brown, Thomas | 3 | Butcher, G. | 1 |
Barrow, John | 1 | Brown, William | 1 |
Blair, Thomas | 1 | Buchanan, Samuel | 1 |
Byrnes, James | 1 | Buchanan, John | 1 |
Bowan, Thomas | 1 | Bradford, Henry | 2 |
Buchanan, Archibald | 2 | Barnett, Robert | 1 |
Blackamore, John | 8 | Blackamore, William | 2 |
Blackamore, Thomas | 2 | Blackamore, George | 1 |
Boyd, Andrew | 1 | Bodey, William | 1 |
Boyd, John | 1 | Cartwright, J. | 1 |
Crow, D. | 1 | Coonrod, N. | 3 |
Cooper, James | 1 | Crane, John | 1 |
Crawford, George | 1 | Carr, Robert | 1 |
Contes, C. | 1 | Cain, Jesse | 1 |
Comstock, Thomas | 1 | Crutcher, Thomas | 1 |
Crutcher, William | 1 | Castleman, Jacob | 1 |
Casselman, Andrew | 1 | Clark, Lardner | 1 |
Casselman, John | 1 | Casselman, Benjamin | 1 |
Cox, Thomas | 1 | Cockrill, John | 1 |
Cox, John | 1 | Cox, Phenix | 1 |
Carnahan, A. | 1 | Connor, William | 1 |
Canyer, William | 1 | Cartwright, Robert | 5 |
Cochran, John | 1 | Craighead, Thomas B. | 2 |
Donaldson, Jacob | 1 | Duncan, M. | 1 |
Duncan, John | 1 | Delaney, James | 1 |
Dodge, Richard | 1 | Duncan, William | 1 |
Duncan, Samuel and John | 2 | Donaldson, James | 1 |
Duncan, D. | 1 | Drake, Benjamin | 2 |
Drake, John | 1 | Drake, Benjamin, Jr. | 1 |
Donaldson, William | 12 | Donaldson, John | 3 |
Dennings, Robert | 1 | Exheart, D. | 1 |
Ewing, Andrew | 1 | Ewing, Alexander | 3 |
Euman, E. | 1 | Evan, Jesse | 1 |
Edmonston, William, John, Robert, and Robert (2d) | 4 | Evans, John | 1 |
Espy, James | 1 | Elliot, Falkner | 1 |
Elliot, __ | 1 | Frazer John | 1 |
Flancy, Daniel | 1 | Ford, Issac, Lewis, John | 3 |
Freeland, Samuel | 1 | Foster, James | 1 |
Frazer, Daniel | 2 | French, Thomas | 1 |
Gilliland, Hugh | 2 | Guise, Charles and John | 5 |
Gibson, John | 1 | Gramer, John | 1 |
Grant, Squire | 4 | Gallaspy, William | 1 |
Gentry, John | 1 | Geter, Argolas | 1 |
Glaves, Michael | 1 | Guffy, Alexander and Henry | 2 |
Hogan, Daniel | 1 | Harrod, Barnard | 1 |
Hardin, M. | 1 | Hooper, William | 1 |
Hooper, Absalom | 7 | Hall, James | 1 |
Handley, S. | 1 | Huston, Ben | 1 |
Hardin, B. | 1 | Hogan, H. | 1 |
Henry, Hugh and Isaac | 2 | Hay, David | 3 |
Hodge, F. | 1 | Harmand, Anthony | 1 |
Hampton, A. | 3 | Howard, John | 1 |
Hollis, James, John, Joshua Samuel | 4 | Heaton, Robert and Amos | 5 |
Hinds, William, Hamilton James and Thomas | 3 | Harrold, Robert | 1 |
Hays, Robert | 4 | Hope, John | 1 |
Hannah, Jos. | 2 | Hornberger, Phil. | 1 |
Harris, James | 1 | Ilor, M. | 1 |
Jones, James and John | 2 | James, Daniel and Edward | 2 |
James, Thomas | 7 | Joslin, Ben | 1 |
Johns, Richard | 1 | Johnston, William | 1 |
Kirkpatrick, John | 3 | Kennedy, Robert | 1 |
Love, Joseph | 1 | Loggans, William | 1 |
Lewis, Thomas and Hugh | 2 | Lenier, James and Henry | 4 |
Lucas, Andrew | 1 | Lyles, Hugh | 1 |
Long, William | 1 | Lancaster, Jno., 2 and Wm., 1 | 3 |
Lynn, Adam | 1 | Lindsay, James | 1 |
Luper, John | 1 | Martin, Joseph | 1 |
Marshall, William | 1 | McAllister, James | 1 |
Mears, William | 1 | McNight, William | 1 |
McFarland, John | 1 | Motheral, John | 1 |
Mitchell, William | 2 | Mayfield, Isaac | 1 |
Marshall, John | 1 | McGowen, Samuel | 1 |
McDowell, John | 1 | McNight, Robert | 1 |
Moore, William | 1 | Marlin, Archibald | 1 |
McCarty, Jacob | 1 | McAntosh, Ben | 1 |
Miller, Isaac | 1 | McAntosh, Thos. And Chas. | 2 |
Murdoch, John | 1 | Martin, Samuel | 2 |
McCain, Thomas | 1 | McFarland, Thomas | 1 |
Maclin, William | 7 | McGough, John | 1 |
Molloy, Thomas | 3 | Miniss, Ben | 1 |
Moore, Alexanderv | 1 | McWhister, William | 1 |
Martin, Archibald | 1 | McCutchen, Patrick, Samuel, And James | 3 |
McSpadden, __ | 1 | Murry, Thomas | 1 |
McLane, Ephraim | 1 | McLane, Ephraim, (2d) | 1 |
McFadden, Jas. 2, David 1, | 3 | McFarlin, James | 2 |
McSea, John | 1 | Nobles, Mark | 1 |
Neal, Thomas | 1 | Nash, William | 1 |
Nusam, Jonas | 2 | Neely, Isaac | 2 |
Nevilles, George | 4 | Owens, Charles and Arthur | 2 |
Oglesby, John | 1 | O’Neall, Jonathan | 2 |
Overall, Nathaniel and Wm. | 2 | Prince, Francis | 10 |
Phillips, John | 1 | Pennington, Jacob | 4 |
Pirtle, George | 1 | Payne, Matthew, George and Josiah | 3 |
Peterson, Isaac | 1 | Pollock, William B. | 1 |
Pennington, Isaac | 3 | Prochman, Phil. | 1 |
Ruland, Lewis | 1 | Ray, Stephen | 1 |
Rounsevall, David, Isaac and Josiah | 3 | Robertson, Alex | 2 |
Robertson, M. and Mark | 2 | Ralston, David | 1 |
Ramsey, William | 1 | Reckner, Coonrod | 1 |
Roberts, Isaac | 1 | Reed, Alexander | 1 |
Robertson, Elijah | 6 | Robertson, Richard | 1 |
Robertson, James | 8 | Ramsey, Josiah | 2 |
Ross, James | 1 | Stuart, William | 1 |
Shaw, Joseph, William and David | 3 | Shannon, Samuel, William and David | 3 |
Shoat, Isaac | 1 | Standley, David, Joseph and John | 3 |
Smothers, A. | 1 | Spiles, W. | 1 |
Singleton, St. John | 1 | Smith, Jesse and Ezekial | 2 |
Stump, Frederick | 4 | Stump, Frederick, Jr. | 1 |
Shannon, John | 1 | Steel, Andrew | 1 |
Sutton, M. | 1 | Stull, Zachariah | 1 |
Scott, James | 1 | Swanson, Edward | 1 |
Sides, P. | 2 | Shelby, Evan | 4 |
Thompson, Azariah | 4 | Thompson, Thomas,Laurence and Andrew | 3 |
Taylor, Thomas | 1 | Thomas, John, William, Isaac, John | 4 |
Tillsforth, Isaac | 3 | Thompson, Charles, James, Robert | 3 |
Taitt, William | 1 | Titus, Ebenezer | 1 |
Todd, James | 1 | Tennin, H. and James | 2 |
Walker, Samuel, John, Phil. | 3 | Walker, John | 2 |
Wells, H. | 1 | Winters, C. and M. | 2 |
Wallace, Samuel | 1 | Willis, James | 1 |
Williamson, James | 3 | Williams, Dan and Daniel | 2 |
Williams, Sampson | 1 | Williams, William | 2 |
Woolard, Isaac | 1 | White, Solomon | 1 |
Wilcocks, Samuel | 6 |