1797 List of Insolvent Taxables
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Source: “Ansearchin'” News, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Summer, 1981), pp. 77-78. No copyright infringement is intended by posting this information for the benefit of researchers.
Copied from photocopies of original records in Tennessee State Archives, Nashville, TN, by Betty Givens Moore and Betsy Foster West
[All have one white poll except where given in parentheses, in addition to property as noted – Ed.]
List of Insolvents living within the Indian Boundary for the year 1797 (sic) which the County Court of Grainger released the Sheriff from the Collection of:
| Austin, Nathaniel
Anderton, Thomas Bunch, Julius Branham, John Chisum, James (2) Cunningham, John Chisum, Elijah Crabb, Joseph Junr Chaney, Francis Cogden, Joseph Clark, Thomas Dodson, Jessee Dodson, Nimrod Duralt, Ab’ham Dodson, Jessee Junr Gibbons, Thomas Harrison, Jonathan Henderson, Thomas Hardinge, William Hodgson, David Hughs, Samuel Hughs, Theophilus Hensley, Samuel Hamet, Nathaniel Hamet, Nathaniel (sic) Jonston, James Kieth, John Kieth, Thomas Lane, Issac Lane, Tidance Livingston, William Miller, John Miller, Frederick Morgan, John Rayne, John Sims, James Sims, Martin Sullins, Peter Shoats, Jacob Thompson, Allexander Wallen, John Wier, William Ward, William Allen, William Adkins, James Arthur, John Bruton, Samuel Boling, Jeremiah Barten, Isaral Burdon, Charles Bennet, John Black, Mathew Brown, Morris Bruton, James Busham, Archer Bitson, Thomas Box, John Bitson, James Bowman, William Burton, William Burdsong, John Cope, Andrew Cope, James Crowley, Benjamin Carr, John Cox, Josiah Cowen, Alexander Cops [Cope ?], Barney Cops [Cope ?], Mathew Claypole, Stephen Callums, George Dougherty, William Dougherty, William (sic) Davis, James 1 bl poll Davis, James 1 bl poll (sic) |
Drunden (?), Benjamin
Durham, Stephen Douthe, Evan Elam, William Finley, Williain Finley, William (sic) Finley, William (sic) Franklin, Edmond Finley, James (0) 3 bl polls Gibson, George Gibson, Jerry Graham, Spencer 1 bl poll Hatfield, Richard Hatfield, Joseph Haines, Andrew Hill, Thomas 4 bl polls Henderson, William Hamlen, John Howard, Robert Halfacre, Peter Hill, William Henderson, James Hatfield, John Innis, Jeremiah Inglis, William Jones, Jessee Linch, Jeremiah Lewis, Joel Lusk, Samuel 1 bl poll McBride,William Mahan, James Martin, Dannel McDonald, John McBride, Thomas McDonald, William McBride, Andrew Moore, Lewis McLellan, Thomas Newfort, John Owen, John Owens, William (2) Pelew, Elijah Reynolds, John Rull, George Reynolds, James Ross, Angus Smith, Mathew Sweeton, Dutton Sweeton, John Stevenson, John Stevenson, William Stinnet, William 1 bl poll Stinnet, Benj. Stevenson, Edward (0) 1 bl poll Stinnet, John Shurley (?), Michael Sharp, Joseph Star, James Sears, John Thomas, Joseph Trammell, Dennis Tinsley, William Vanbiber, John (2) 1 bl poll Vanbiber, Peter Vanbiber, James Womack, Jonathan Womack, Jeremiah Womack, David Weaver, Samuel Weaver, Joseph Weaver, John Weaver, Samuel (sic) Yoklham, George |
I, Ambrouse Yancey Clerk of the County of Grainger do certify the above list of
Insolvencys was proven in Open Court by the Oath of Martin Ashburn Collector.
Am. Yancey C.G.C.
Written vertically across the list is: “Allow’d by the Committee of Finance Oct. 4, 1799.”
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