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Subject: [LDR] Somerset Tax Lists 1723-59
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 09:19:21 EST


After the many misadventures recounted here, Jean E. Russo's tax lists for
Somerset 1723-1759 have finally arrived at the MSA Web site, properly formatted!

http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/refserv/coagser/so/html/so1812.html

This should resolve all those old confusions and offer everyone who has
mid-18th Somerset ancestors a real field day. Jean has produced a marvelous product
here, bringing to light a virtually unique look at colonial households across
several decades.

An enormous amount of work has gone into transcribing these lists, over many
years. Jean deserves much credit.

She's added an introductory section, which appears at the top of each list,
which will explain the essentials.

Just to remind everyone of the jusridictional changes affecting who may be in
these lists: in 1742, Worcester was created, so the 1743 and later lists do
not include the Hundreds that became part of Worcester [Baltimore,
Bogerternorton, Mattapany, part of Pocomoke (east of Salisbury) and part of Nanticoke
(that portion now in Sussex, DE north of Broad Creek).

And, no, no such later tax lists for Worcester survive. Sorry. A keenly
interesting anecdote about the rare survival of these lists is that when some
bundled Somerset records were forwarded from the Courthouse in Princess Anne to
the Archives in Annapolis a few decades past, it was discovered that the
wrapping paper of the bundles was these tax lists! Hosanna and good grief. From
such small things ...

Enjoy!

John Lyon

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