Early Kentucky Tax Records From The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society by Carol Lee Ford IS-SA-CHE-A-TA

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including 3 for each of the 22 Congressional Townships that make up Sainte Genevieve County

Early Kentucky Tax Records From The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society by Carol Lee Ford IS-SA-CHE-A-TATable of Contents Among the many historic documents that were lost when the British burned the Capitol in Washington during the War of 1812 were the first two censuses of Kentucky, the earliest one compiled while Kentucky was still a part of Virginia. Owing to the destruction of these census records, genealogists doing research in Kentucky have been obliged to reconstruct the lost data from a number of related records, particularly tax records. Those