Early Kentucky Tax Records Genealogy Book

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Early Kentucky Tax  Records
Register of The Kentucky Historical Society
Hardbound    volume  totaling
318
pages. Book  is in very good condition.   Just what you need  for genealogy research. Per the publisher;
Among the many historic documents that were lost when  the British burned the Capitol in Washington during the War of 1812 were the  first two censuses of Kentucky, the earliest one compiled while Kentucky was  still a part of Virginia. Owing to the destruction of these census records,  genealogists doing research in Kentucky have been obliged to reconstruct the  lost data from a number of related records, particularly tax records. Those  printed here represent all the tax lists ever published in The Register of the  Kentucky Historical Society and are among the earliest Kentucky tax records in  existence.
In a few cases these tax records date from a period  either immediately before or after the 1790 and 1800 enumerations, and show, by  comparison with the reconstructed census records for 1790 and 1800, published by  Charles B. Heinemann and G. Glenn Clift respectively, the movement of early  Kentuckians from one county to another. In other cases the records serve both as  an adjunct and a corrective to the Heinemann and Clift works, though the vast  majority of these tax lists--giving the names of about 12,000 taxpayers, their  counties of residence, and the number of persons and chattels attached to their  households--do not appear in either work.
The consolidation and reprinting of these tax lists will  not only assure their continued survival but, owing to the scarcity of the  Register itself, will afford the researcher access to materials otherwise well  out of his reach. Tax records included in this work, showing county and date of  assessment, are as follows: Campbell County (1795), Christian County  (1799-1800), Fayette County (1788), Floyd County (1790), Franklin County (1795),  Hart County (1819), Henderson County (1799), Jefferson County (1789), Knox  County (1800), Lincoln County (1789), Logan County (1795), Madison County (1788,  1792), Mercer County (1789, 1795), Montgomery County (1797), Nelson County  (1792), Shelby County (1795), Washington County (1792), and Wayne County (1801).
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