GENEALOGY TODAY
April, 1999
Tax Lists and What To Do with Them.
Most colonial counties and towns usually taxed free adult males and were
called poll tax. It became due when a young man reached either sixteen,
eighteen or twenty-one, depending on the area. This tax was stopped when he
reached fifty or sixty, again, depending on the area. Sometimes the law made
the father liable for their son's tax when the son reached sixteen to twenty
and the tax lists showed them as unnamed tal