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Re: Northern and southern parts of the county for tax lists
Posted by: Walter V. Turner (ID *****9679)	Date: October 03, 2008 at 00:33:40
In Reply to: Re: Northern and southern parts of the county for tax lists by James Guthrie	of 1315

Thank you, James.
The Dan River was certainly a great natural barrier, as witness its role in the Revolution, but if that were the dividing line across the whole county it would be a pretty uneven division, putting only about a third of the county into the southern tax district. Maybe there were a lot more people in the south. I don’t have the tax lists now to see where most people were listed, and the ones I’ve seen were for the 1700’s, anyway. (The county seat was well north of the Dan.)
Where was your ancestor with respect to the Banister River? How big was or is the Banister? If it were the dividing line in the west before it meets the Dan, it would make the districts nearly equal in area.

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Re: Northern and southern parts of the county for tax lists James Guthrie 10/03/08
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