Information Sheet

 

 

R         Morgan County (Mo.).

420                  Tax assessment book, 1844.

                                    One volume.

 

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This is a record of assessments on real estate and personal property in Morgan County, Mis­souri.  The volume includes a listing of taxpayers, the amount of taxable property, including slaves, and the amounts assessed.  There are separate lists of assessments of property in the towns of Ver­sailles, Florence, and Mining Post.

 

The assessment book contains a substantial amount of information on the relative wealth of the citizens of Morgan County.  Most of the taxpay­ers listed are men, but a few women were also assessed.  The tax book is the work of George W. Martin, the county assessor in 1844.  His rec­ords itemize the assessments on several different categories of personal proper­ty held by 1,056 resident and non‑resident owners.  Real estate was the most common taxable property, and the records note the legal description and original claimant of each parcel.  Other classes of personal property on which taxes were levied include slaves, horses, cattle, carriages, watches, clocks, bonds, notes, and “money at interest.”  Four hundred eighty‑seven slaves were assessed in 1844, with a total value only slightly less than the 90,000 acres of land evaluated.  Aggregate values of the entire county are presented in tabular form following the records of as­sessment for individu­als.  The table in­cludes the total valuation of real estate in Versailles, Florence, and Mining Post.  Lists of individ­ual owners of real estate in these towns are entered separately at the end of the volume.

 

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