Tax List Digests for Morgan County, Georgia from pre-organization to post-war, 1809 to 1866, inclusive.
36,542 Records
Source: Morgan County Archives, Mr. Marshall W. Williams, Assistant Archivist, Morgan County, Georgia.
Formatted and arranged for these pages on May 5, 2014
Also see 1807 Baldwin County Georgia Census substitute
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The Tax Digests contain:
(a) Evidence that the person was living in the district; (b) If person owned more than one parcel of land. They paid the poll tax on parcel on which they resided; (c) The district number and land lot number of their parcels; (d) The nearest water course;
(e) The number of Slaves for taxing; (f) If owner was a Lawyer or Physician; (g) Amount of stock-in-trade of an owned store; (h) Ownership of two or four-wheeled buggies; (i) The amount of his tax; (j) The militia district; (k) Amount of out-of-county property owned, if any.
Notes: As with all databases, some names may have been omitted. (1) The ink on the 1818 Tax Digest book is faded or the writing illegible causing uncertainty. Those entries are indicated with a (?). (2) On the 1849 Tax Digest the names recorded on page 164 are shown as "poor children in District 396". These page numbers are based on the red re-bound copy. (3) The following names were missing from the 1852 Tax Digest: Prior and Head (Askew), Goss (Martin), Buckhead, Kingston, and Shepherd Districts. (4) Special attention should be given to the spelling of names on the 1856 Tax Digest.
(5) The 1866 Tax Digest was the first post "War between the States". It had additional columns: "Polls of Whites" and "Polls of Colored Persons". Some names had White listed and some had Colored. Some names had both White and Colored listed.
Familysearch.org has the following on microfilm: Tax digest, 1834, 1841, 1843-1844, 1847, 1849, 1851. Morgan County Tax Receiver. Link / Tax digests, 1828-1883. Court of Ordinary.  Link  / Wild land tax records of Morgan County, Georgia, 1868-1883.