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Giles County, Tennessee
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1813 Unpaid Property Taxes



From the Nashville Clarion & State Gazette, 2 August 1814, reprinted as "Land in Giles County On Block For Unpaid 1813 Property Taxes" by the Tennessee Genealogical Society in Ansearchin, Vol 44, No. 1, Spring 1997:



                Land in Giles County On Block 
               For Unpaid 1813 Property Taxes 

          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 folloaing 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

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) German Lester. Court Clerk 



Note: Most of the larger tracts are early North Carolina grants. See Land of Giles and the 1812 Giles County Tax List.





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