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FIRST TAXES COLLECTED
1839

The first collected tax list for Johnson county was  made by S. C. Trowbridge, county assessor, appointed by the board of county commissioners, April 1, 1839, and was based upon the assessment of personal property only, for territorial purposes, as no one had any title to land then, other than “Squatter’s claims.”  The following is a list of all the taxpayers in the county at the time of the assessment, May, 1839, together with the amount assessed against each person. The rate of levy upon this assessment was fixed by the board of county commissioners at its meeting July 1, 1839, thus:

Ordered by the Court: That the rates per cent to be laid for tax should be one half percent on the dollar:

Green Hill  $423Charles Jones  $559
John I. Burge  $245Joseph Stover  $600
Jonathan Harris, 182John Eagan  325
Joseph Eagan  50 Asby D. Packard  5
Joel Dowell  97John Williams  $10
Robert Walker 313Yale Hamilton  205
Peter Crum  33John Trout  175
William Ward  324Stephen Brown  10
Thomas B. Mulholland  10John A. Sweet  170
John Moore  50Stephen Chase  60
Knight & Wilson  4 50Ebenezer Douglass  294
Wheton Chase  588William C. Massey 85
Henry Hart  85John Morford  228
John G. Coleman  34Samuel Walker  302
Joseh Walker  110James Walker  68
William Kelso  414James Magruder  15
David Sweet  249William Sturgis  168
George W. Hawkins  95Isaac McCorkle  242
William Wolefllll  180Henry G. Reddout  10
John Gardner  42William M. Harris  10
Pleasant Harris  577Henry Earhart  10
Abner Wolcott  6Allen Baxter  10
David Switzer  462Samuel Sprague  31
James L. Wilkinsn  70Jacob Earhart  427
John Earhart  67Nathaniel McClure  374
Lewlis Ranzhan  287James Smith  280
John Royal  35Eliza Seacor  179
William Moorris  212James Scahorn 443
McPherson Davis  332Josiah Davis  114
Charles H. Berryhill  400Isaiah P. Hamilton   50
William Brown  128Thomas B. Brown  128
Thomas B. Brown,  660James Duglass  160
John Shoup  5Benjamin Miller  373
Patrick Smith  21William Dupont  435
John Hawkins  220Mrs. Mary Ann Dennis  $65
John N. H Headly  281Jonathan Sprague  349
John Guilor  311Alonzo C. Dennison  230
Joseph Dennison  170George L. Dennison  190
Addison Chapman  50Martin Harless  262
Messe McCart  205Nathaniel Fellows  103
John Mathews  436Elijah Hurley  11
James Harden  281John Morris  235
William ones 333Eli Myers  175
Harry Tyman  122Jesse McGrew  431
Abner Arrowsmith  244Samuel Conlogue  180
Warren Stiles  445Josiah Lyman  50
Jahial Park  169Presley and Lewis Conley  370
Warren Spurrier  78Daniel Slone  88
Andrew Binegal  15Marge Belford  225
Ebenezer M. Adams  150Peliezene C. Brown  120
Thomas B. Prague  95John Agy  85
John Rickman  20James Buchanan  325
Isaac V. Dennis  30Samuel B. Trotter  40
Allen C. Sutliff  335Thomas  Maxwell  35
Thomas G. Lockhart  407samuel M. Lockhart  290
Benona Haskin  50Thomas Fitz  15
Thomas Ford  165Elias Rogers  155
Wiley Fitz  35Henry Rogers  110
William McGinnis  25David A. Burns  40
Isaac Cox  20John S. Hollar  275
Abner States  20Elijah Cox  243
Edwin Brown  55Orestes Lovett  100
Robert Mathews  301Isaac Bowen  365
John Parrott  545Philip Clark 570
William Morford  125

The foregoing list contains 128 names, each of whom reckoned as the head of a family, would, in the ratio of five to each family, give a population of 640. The tax was collected by John Eagan, deputy under Sheriff Trowbridge, and the aggregate amount on the list is shown by the following return:

Amount on duplicate for 1839, one hundred and thirteen dollars and fifty-five cents.
JOHN EAGAN, Deputy Collector, J. C.

Source: History of Johnson County, from 1836 - 1882; ppgs. 271 - 272


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