Muhlenberg County Kentucky
Census Records
1799 Tax List
The 1799 Tax List is a list of all white men over the age of 21 living in Muhlenberg County with or without property. The list I'm working from is obviously a copy: The names have been placed in loose alphabetical order.
The last page of the photocopy that I've worked from makes reference to a second book for the 1799 Tax List. This Book lists at most 84 more names of White, Male Citizens who were taxed for property in Muhlenberg. It is unclear whether I simply did not receive this second book or whether it no longer exists. Click here for the Totals Page for Books 1 & 2 of the 1799 Tax List.
The tax list covers the following information:
- Date of receiving the lists
- Persons named chargeable with Tax
- Acres of land, and what quality
- Name of Waters on which land is located
- County in which the land is located
- Persons named in which the land was Entered
- Persons named for whom the land was Surveyed
- Persons named for whom the land Grant was Issued
- Number of white men over 21
- Number of white men of 16
- Number of blacks of 16
- Total number of blacks
- Number of horses
- Number of stud horses
- The rate of covering
- Those come since 10th of March
For this transcription of the tax list, all land is located in Muhlenberg unless otherwise noted in the Notes section. All land was 2nd rate unless otherwise noted. I did not transcribe “The Rate of Covering” section. The “Ditto” marks may actually refer to the person listed at the beginning of the line rather than to the line above; though there are instances in which the marks do indeed refer to the line above. It's very confusing.
Updated November 6, 2015