Following is a transcription of the 1784 Tyrrell County Tax
List done by Art Lawton, another of our Tyrrell County "cousins"
living in New Jersey. Many thanks for sharing this with us Art.
The original document is preserved at the State of North
Carolina Archives in Raleigh. The handwriting in this document
was very legible. Consequently, there were few problems
encountered in transcribing the document.
However, in those few instances where there was doubt, notes
have been included in the text. Anything in brackets [ ] is not
part of the original text. A question mark within brackets, [?],
indicates that there was difficulty in reading original text. In
these instances, the reader may want to consult the original
document. Occasionally, if there was some doubt about a
particular letter combination, alternative spellings are provided
in brackets.
The use of [sic] indicates that the spelling presented is
exactly as given in the original, but the reader is likely to
have encountered significantly variant spellings in other
documents. The transcriber has presented these other
possibilities.