Tax Lists

1846: Dist. #2 Cherry, Willie: 121 acres of land value of land: $500.00 tax on land: $1.25 1 slave value of slave: $600.00 tax on slave: $1.50 1 white poll tax on poll: $.25 Total Tax: $3.00	1847: Dist. #2: Cherry, Willie 121 acres of land value of land: $400.00 tax on land: $.86 2 slaves value of slaves: $1100.00 tax on slaves: $2.20 1 white poll tax on poll: $.25 Total tax: $3.??
1848: Dist. #2: Cherry, Willie: 120 acres of land value of land: $400.00 tax on land: $.96 1 slave value of slave: $600.00 tax on slave: $1.44 1 white poll tax on poll: $.28 Total tax: $2.68	1849: Dist. #2: Cherry, Willie: 121 acres of land value of land: $500.00 Tax on land: $1.25 1 slave value of slave: $700.00 tax on slave: $1.75 1 white poll tax on poll: $.30 Total tax: $3.30
1853: Dist. #1: “Cherry, W.P., Heirs” (no land recorded) 2 slaves value of slaves: unreadable tax on slaves: unreadable	1854: Dist.#2: Cherry, Willie, Heirs: 211 acres of land value of land: $1400.00 1 slave value of slave: $900.00
1856 Dist. #2: Cherry, Julia: 169 acres of land value of land: $1000.00	1866 Dist. #2: Cherry, Mrs. J.E.: 166 acres of land value of land: $996.00 Total value: $996.00 poll tax: $.25 Total tax: $6.46
1867: Dist. #2: Cherry, Julia: 166 acres of land @ $9.00 an acre Value of land: $1494.00 Total value: $1494.00 total tax: $11.20	1867: Dist. #2: Cherry, G.D. (Julia’s son): 100 acres of land @ 6.00 an acre Total land value: 600.00 Total value: $600.00 1 poll Total tax: $7.00
1868: Dist. #2: Cherry, Mrs. Julia: 166 acres of land value of land: $1494.00 Total value: $1494.00 Total tax: $14.94	1868: Dist. #2: Cherry, G.D. (Julia’s son) 100 acres of land value of land: $600.00 Total value: $600.00 1 poll total tax: $8.50

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Thanks to Matthew Lundy, ggg-grandson of  Wiley P. and Julia Etta Whitley Cherry, for providing the transcription of these tax records, from copies provided by Reese Moses, genealogist, Elma Ross Library, Brownsville, Tennessee.

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