1805 Tax List, Anderson County, Tennessee

This list is most curious in that it consists of names only.  There are no numbers of acres, numbers of polls, number of stud horses, or anything like that.  It is also curious in that the names are not grouped into any districts or militia companies that are clearly identified.  The names are grouped in the sense that they are alphabetized "over and over again".  They go from A to Z, then from A to Z again, etc.  Every time the names start over at A, it is probably a new group but it is not clear what the groups are.  Given the timeframe, the groupings are probably militia companies.

The names are numbered from #1 to approximately #600.  The Peters and the Scarbros are in the same group.

It is very likely that I am related to Austin Choate.  For example, he could have been the father or the brother of my fifth great grandmother Vesta Zippora Choate who was the wife of my fifth great grandfather John England.  Austin Choate was in the same grouping (probably the same militia company) as John England, and also in the same grouping as the Peters and Scarbros.

John England was my fifth great grandfather.

Henry Peters Sr. was my fifth great grandfather.  Henry Peters Sr. was likely related to Tobias Peters Sr.  For example, they might have been brothers.  But their exact relationship to each other, if any, is unknown.  Henry and Tobias moved from Greenbrier County, Virginia to what is now Anderson County, Tennessee in 1797.  They moved with the Scarbroughs, and Tobias was married to Elizabeth Rachel Scarborough shortly before the move.

Henry Peters Sr. married Mary Wiatte in Greenbrier County, Virginia before the family moved to Tennessee in 1797.  It is possible that some or all of the Wyatt's listed in this tax list were related to Mary, and perhaps one of them was her father.

John Andrew (Andrew) Braden was my fourth great grandfather.  He lived along the Brushy Fork of Poplar Creek, about halfway between Robertsville (modern Oak Ridge) and Oliver Springs.  So that's probably the general area where everyone in his grouping lived.

Micajah Cross was at best distantly related to my fourth great grandfather William Cross.  Micajah moved to what is now Scott County, Tennessee.  I'm not convinced that Micajah ever lived in what is now Anderson County because at the time of the 1805 tax list Anderson County went all the way north to the Kentucky state line.  Indeed, everybody in his grouping was probably living up close to the Kentucky state line.