Tennessee tax records prior to 1837 were maintained by militia companies within counties. Generally speaking the records were kept on loose pieces of paper. Only few such records survive. To the best of my knowledge, the only early records that survive for Anderson County are for 1802, 1805, and 1806. In 1836, the Tennessee legislature passed a law establishing civil districts in each county for the purposes of tax collections and mandating that the tax records be kept in bound books. The first year for keeping records in this fashion was 1837, and many such records survive. |
The original purpose of this particular Web page was simply to summarize 1837 tax records for Anderson County for families of my ancestors and for several allied families. Recording such 1837 tax records remains as the primary purpose for this Web page, but I'm expanding this page to include transcriptions of all 1837 tax records for Anderson County whether they were for my families or not. The more complete transcriptions are further down the page. Additionally, I'm trying to cross reference the 1837 tax records with the 1830 and 1840 census records. The early census records do not identify the civil districts in which the families resided, and indeed the civil districts did not even exist for the 1830 census. By cross referencing census and tax records I hope to establish a pretty good indication of about where each family lived. |
Year | District | Surname | Given Name | Acres | School Acres | Slaves | Polls | Comment |
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1837 | 1 | Cross | Abraham | 1 | son of unknown, b. 1789-1806, probably not one of mine, probably from the Micajah Cross line that ended up in Scott County, Tennessee |
Year | District | Surname | Given Name | Acres | School Acres | Slaves | Polls | Comment |
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1837 | 4 | Bray | Joshua | Joshua J. Bray, brother of Edward Payne Bray | ||||
1837 | 4 | Clardy | John | |||||
1837 | 4 | Clardy | Michael | 480 | husband of Rebecca Peters, daughter of Tobias Peters Sr. and Elizabeth Rachel Scarborough | |||
1837 | 4 | Messamore | James | 1 | son of William/Willhelm Messamore and Margarethe Elizabeth (Peggy) May, brother of Anna F. Messamore | |||
1837 | 4 | Millican | Robert | 1 | husband of Malinda Messamore, d/o William/Wilhelm Messamore and Margarethe Elizabeth (Peggy) May | |||
1837 | 4 | Millican | Harvey | 1 | ||||
1837 | 4 | Moore | Lazrous | 100 | 1 |
Year | District | Surname | Given Name | Acres | School Acres | Slaves | Polls | Comment |
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1837 | 5 | Braden | Jesse | 1 |
Year | District | Surname | Given Name | Acres | School Acres | Slaves | Polls | Comment |
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1837 | 6 | Bay (sic) | Joseph H. | 125 | 1 | son of John Bray and Jane | ||
1837 | 6 | Bray | Edward P. | 1 | Edward Payne Bray, son of John Bray and Jane | |||
1837 | 6 | Breaden | Andrew | 150 | ||||
1837 | 6 | Breaden | Isaac | 1 | ||||
1837 | 6 | Breaden | William | 1 | ||||
1837 | 6 | Breaden | Andrew | 1 | ||||
1837 | 6 | Cross | Alfred | 1 | The sheriff, son of Brittain Cross and Mary (Polly) Parks | |||
1837 | 6 | Cross | John & Will. | 1067½ | 237 | 7 | 2 | John the merchant and William the lawyer, sons of Brittain Cross and Mary (Polly) Parks |
1837 | 6 | Cobb | Morris | father of James Madison Cobb who married Mary (Polly) Peters | ||||
1837 | 6 | England | Alfred | 585 | 710 | 1 | son of Joseph England who served in the Revolutionary War from Burke County, North Carolina | |
1837 | 6 | England | Andrew | 1 | son of Joseph England who served in the Revolutionary War from Burke County, North Carolina | |||
1837 | 6 | Oliver | Charles Y. | 100 |
Year | District | Surname | Given Name | Acres | School Acres | Slaves | Polls | Comment |
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1837 | 7 | Clardy | James | 100 | ||||
1837 | 7 | England | Andrew | 100 | son of Joseph England who served in the Revolutionary War from Burke County, North Carolina | |||
1837 | 7 | Oliver | Richard | 225 | 1 | |||
1837 | 7 | Scarbrough | James | 100 | 1 |
Year | District | Surname | Given Name | Acres | School Acres | Slaves | Polls | Comment |
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1837 | 8 | Cross | William | 174 | William Cross the Revolutionary War drummer boy (The land was in four parcels: 114 acres by deed, 20 acres by deed, 20 acres by land grant, and 20 acres by land grant. The land was just north of the gap in Pine Ridge, where Scarbrough Road now goes through the gap after passing the Y-12 nuclear facility.) | |||
1837 | 8 | Cross | Alfred | 1 | Alfred Carter Cross, son of William Cross the Revolutionary War drummer boy. Alfred moved to his father's land in Dist. 9 after his father died in 1844. Alfred was probably living on his father's land in Dist. 8 in 1837. | |||
1837 | 8 | Cross | Jesse | 1 | Jesse C. Cross, son of William Cross the Revolutionary War drummer boy. Jesse was probably living on his father's land in Dist. 8 in 1837. | |||
1837 | 8 | England | Zippora | 66 | Vesta Zipporah Choate, widow of John England | |||
1837 | 8 | England | Titus | 1 | son of John England and Vesta Zipporah Choate | |||
1837 | 8 | Key | John | 280 | 1 | purchased the land of Tobias Peters Sr. from the heirs of Tobias | ||
1837 | 8 | Leath | Willis | 250 | father-in-law of Nancy Ann Cross, daughter of William Cross the Revolutionary War drummer boy | |||
1837 | 8 | Leath | Addison | 1 | husband of Nancy Ann Cross, daughter of William Cross the Revolutionary War drummer boy | |||
1837 | 8 | Moore | Joseph E. | 1 | Joseph Elvin Moore, son of George Washington Moore and Winiford Peak | |||
1837 | 8 | Oliver | Douglas | 1160 | 100 | 13 | ||
1837 | 8 | Oliver | James M. | 1 | ||||
1837 | 8 | Oliver | Douglas | 1 | ||||
1837 | 8 | Oliver | Richard | 187.5 | ||||
1837 | 8 | Oliver | Charles Y. | 50 | ||||
1837 | 8 | Peters | Wesley | 1 | Wesley M. Peters, son of Tobias Peters Sr. and Elizabeth Rachel Scarborough |
Year | District | Surname | Given Name | Acres | School Acres | Slaves | Polls | Comment |
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1837 | 9 | Cross | J. & William | 400 | John Cross the merchant and William Cross the lawyer, sons of Brittain Cross and Mary (Polly) Parks (John and William still lived in Dist. 6 at this point, and had purchased the land in Dist. 9 without moving there) | |||
1837 | 9 | Cross | Elijah | 1 | son of William Cross the Revolutionary War drummer boy | |||
1837 | 9 | Cross | William | 35 | William Cross the Revolutionary War drummer boy (William lived in Dist. 8, and this land in Dist. 9 passed to his son Alfred Carter Cross when William died in 1844. I suspect that William's son Elijah Cross lived on this land in 1837.) | |||
1837 | 9 | England | Titus | 40 | 5 | son of John England and Vesta Zipporah Choate | ||
1837 | 9 | Leath | Willis | 150 | 50 | father-in-law of Nancy Ann Cross, daughter of William Cross the Revolutionary War drummer boy | ||
1837 | 9 | Oliver | Richard | 227 | ||||
1837 | 9 | Oliver | William | 100 | 1 | |||
1837 | 9 | Peters | Thomas | 134 | 30 | 1 | son of Henry Peters Sr. and Mary Wiatte | |
1837 | 9 | Peters | Henry Sen. | 156 | Henry Peters Sr., husband of Mary Wiatte | |||
1837 | 9 | Peters | Henry | 1 | Henry Peters Jr., son of Henry Peters Sr. and Mary Wiatte | |||
1837 | 9 | Peters | John W. | 1 | son of Thomas Peters and Sarah (Sallie) England, husband of Catherine Lea | |||
1837 | 9 | Scarbrough | Isaac | 1 | son of William Scarbrough and Mahala (Milly) Wood | |||
1837 | 9 | Scarbrough | Wm. | 45 | 1 | son of David Scarbrough and Elizabeth Anderson | ||
1837 | 9 | Scarbrough | Jonathan | 439 | 481 | 1 | Jonathon Lupton Scarbrough Sr., son of William Scarbrough and Mahala (Milly) Wood |
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The images were taken from microfilm with a digital camera. The quality is better that way than having the images printed out on 8.5 x 11 paper. But the camera is not able to capture the entire microfilm screen with one shot, so multiple images have been stitched together digitally.
This page last edited on 21 Apr 2017.