*A law of 1801 exempted free males over the age of fifty, and in 1817 the upper age limit was lowered to forty-five. A state constitutional ammendment of 1835 permanently established taxable age:All free males over the age of twenty-one years, and under the age of forty-five years, and and all slaves over the age of twelve years, and no other person shall be subject to such tax; provided that nothing herein contained shall prevent exemptions of taxable polls as heretofore prescribed by law in cases of bodily infirmity.
Land Valuation Poll Lotts Stores Houses
Capt. Allen's 17511 14004 58Capt. Carker's 18453 31956 120 2Capt. Curlee's 28746 22562 106Capt. Beverly's 18191 28176 137 3Capt. Hough's 211741/2 39481 154 1Capt. Lanier's 25380 56428 203 1Capt. Meadow's 20537 26748 99Capt. Pratt's 27763 44948 271 46 1Capt. Poe's 21844 16346 79Capt. Sinclair's 29268 340591/2 168Capt. Staton's 11855 14986 48Capt. Smith's 15650 36250 97Capt. Vann's 18352 23862 64Capt. White's 24648 24998 114Capt. Joseph White's12132 22234 87Capt. William's 95691/2 20182 73 _______________________________________________ Total- 3210741/2 4571501/2 1869 52 1 1 _______________________________________________*NORTH CAROLINA RESEARCH: GENEALOGY AND LOCAL HISTORY, Second Edition.
Edited by Helen F. M. Leary., C.G., F.A.S.G.
North Carolina Genealogical Society, Raleigh, 1996.
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