It’s always a good idea to look at original records yourself.
More than once, I’ve seen a transcription that gets a name wrong and seeing the original document winds up solving a mystery.
If you haven’t already seen them, there are plenty of tax list images over at NC Digital Collections.
To go to the main category, go here: https://digital.ncdcr.gov/digital/search/collection/p16062coll33
If you’d like a quick reference to available (as of December 18, 2021) tax lists available for eastern NC, please see below:
Beaufort County
- 1755 Beaufort County Tax Lists
- 1764 Beaufort County Tax Lists
- 1779 Beaufort County Tax Lists
- 1784 Beaufort County Tax Lists
- 1786 Beaufort County Tax Lists
- 1787 Beaufort County Tax Lists
- 1789 Beaufort County Tax Lists
- 1818 District of Bath Tax Lists
Bertie County
- 1769 Bertie County Tax Lists
- 1774 Bertie County Tax Lists
- 1781 Bertie County Tax Lists
- 1815 Bertie County Tax Lists
- 1816 Bertie County Tax Lists
- 1830-1836 Bertie County Tax Lists
- 1847-1853 Bertie County Tax Lists
Carteret County
Chowan County
Craven County
Dobbs County
Duplin County
Edgecombe County
Hyde County
Jones County
Lenoir County
Martin County
Nash County
Onslow County
Pasquotank County
- 1754 Pasquotank County Tax Lists
- 1769 Pasquotank County Tax Lists
- 1779 Pasquotank County Tax Lists
- 1782 Pasquotank County Tax Lists
- 1782, 1815 Pasquotank County Tax Lists
- 1788 Pasquotank County Tax Lists
- 1789 Pasquotank County Tax Lists
Pitt County
- 1762 Pitt County Tax Lists
- 1763 Pitt County Tax Lists
- 1764 Pitt County Tax Lists
- 1775 Pitt County Tax Lists
- 1786 Pitt County Tax Lists
- 1815 Pitt County Tax Lists
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