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Unpaid Property Taxes |
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Land in Giles County On Block
For Unpaid 1813 Property Taxes (From the Nashville Clarion & State Gazette, 2 August 1814) GILES COUNTY COURT - MARCH SESSION 1814 James Buford, Esq., sherriff and collector of the public and county tax for the year 1813, reports to this court that taxes remain due and unpaid for the following tracts of land for 1813 and he cannot find in his county any goods and chattels belonging to the owners thereof whereon he can destrain for the same, to-wit: | ||
| Reputed Owner | Acres | Situation |
| John Baldridge | 160 | Elk River |
| John Childress | 4,700 | Richland Creek |
| John Childress | 1,000 | Elk River |
| Francis Childs | 3,000 | Richland (Warrant #695) |
| Joseph East | 200 | Pigeon Roost Creek |
| Richard Hightour | 640 | Richland |
| Richard Hightour | 230 | Bradshaw's Creek |
| Hightour & Haywood | 110 | Robertson's Creek |
| Robert Lanier | 500 | West of Elk R.(Grant 1995) |
| Robert Lanier | 100 | Elk River |
| Hightour & Haywood | 500 | Richland Creek |
| James Lewis | 400 | Saved out of a 2000-acre entry |
| William B. Lewis | 300 | South side of Elk River |
| James Morrison | 200 | Entry waters Buchanan's Creek |
| John M'Donald | 227 | Buchanan's Creek |
| J. C. & D.W. M'Ree | 840 | Robertson Creek |
| Estate of H. Murphey | 640 | (no location given) |
| Estate of H. Murphey | 427 | (no location given) |
| William Neal | 100 | Richland Creek |
| Isaac Price | 1,000 | Mouth of Richland Creek |
| Jacob Perkins | 4,000 | Richland Creek |
| Thomas Whitson | 140 | Elk River |
| James Temple | 300 | Elk River |
| James Temple | 39 | Reynold's Creek |
| James Temple | 26 | Reynold's Creek |
| James Temple | 86 | Sinking Creek |
| James Read, Jr. | 4,657 | Richland 1 white poll and 1 black |
| Edward Thursby | 10 | Part of an old grant to S. Donaldson |
| John Wilson | 5,000 | Blue Creek |
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It is therefore ordered that judgment be entered up against the owners of said tracts ... and that said tracts (or as much of as will be sufficient to satisfy the taxes, costs, and charges due) be sold at the courthouse in Pulaski on the first Monday in November next. |
(signed) Gorman Lester. Court Clerk
Reprinted from ANSEARCHIN (Vol 44 No 1) Tennessee Genealogy Magazine
with their permission.
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