Census Records

1767 Petition to Move Pitt County Courthouse to plantation of Edmond Tyson
This petition was published previously on this site from a transcription by Roger Kammerer, but it was identified as a…
1786 List of Taxables for Pitt County (perhaps Swift Creek area?)
I found this list crawling through a folder of Pitt County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions records on FamilySearch.…
1786 Swift Creek Tax List
In April 2014, I ran a copy of the 1786 Swift Creek Tax List as it appeared in the Pitt…
1844 Lenoir County, NC Tax List
I was so happy to find this on the NCDCR site. First time I've ever seen my ancestor Eli Cox's…
NC Tax Lists at NC Digital Collections
North Carolina Digital Collections has scanned North Carolina Tax Lists and organized them for researchers. Check them out via the…
1779 Craven County Tax List
Below is a transcription of names found on the 1779 Tax List. These original scans can be found here at…
1775 Pitt County Tax List (Index with original images)
I've been meaning to get around to making an index and posting the images from the 1775 Pitt County Tax…
Have you checked the 1840 Pensioners Census for your Revolutionary War ancestors?
I got an email from a fellow researcher of a common family from eastern North Carolina in which this person…
1789 Beaufort County Tax List
Below I have transcribed the entire Beaufort County tax listing for 1789, including various rural districts, the town of Washington,…
The strange tale of the Craven County woman who gave birth AND signed a deed in Pitt County in the years after her 1816 death
According to publicly-accessible family trees at Ancestry.com, a Craven County woman named Jemima MILLS, said to be a daughter of Nasby…Craven County School Census – 12th District – Heads of Household & Children (1840?)
I've been working on organizing my seemingly endless genealogy files lately, and came across images I had taken of microfilm (or…
Many early North Carolina families are named on the Moseley Map (1733). Is one of them yours?
How early were your ancestors in North Carolina? If they were here prior to the War of Independence, then it…










