1794 Washington County, Virginia Poll Tax-(Capt. Carriger's Company)
for the part that would become Carter County, Tennessee in June 1796.
A poll is a person and was probably a male adult laborer.
The head of household would pay taxes for himself and any
adult sons or white servants he had, as well as for the people he had enslaved.
Tennessee was admitted to the Union on June 1, 1796. It was initially part of North Carolina.
Carter County, Tennessee was organized from Washington County on April 9, 1796. Elizabethton is the county seat.
Slavery is an immoral system of forced labor where people are treated as property to be bought and sold. It was legal in the American Colonies and the United States until the Civil War.
East Tennessee is part of Appalachia. At the end of the French and Indian War, colonists began drifting into the area. In 1769, they first settled along the Watauga River. During the Revolution, the Overmountain Men defeated British loyalists at the Battle of Kings Mountain. The State of Franklin was formed in the 1780s, but never admitted to the Union.
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Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States.
