1783 Tax List

Listed below are the names listed on the 1783 Greene Co Tax list, this was the first list taken for Greene Co. The original tax list can be viewed at the Nathanael Greene Museum in Greeneville.

This list does not have any locations just the names, although some notes of interest were added to this list of names:

• Almost all on list were Revolutionary soldiers.
• They were known as the "Nollichuckey Settlers."
• In 1785 Adam Meek built his cabin farthest westward but civilization had not reached the present Knox Co border.
• Many of them settled on the "Brown Purchase" -- land bought from the indians by Jacob Brown, a Major in the Revolution.
• The Nolichuckey settlers were famous as riflemen.
• Many of them were enlisted with the NC Continental Line or the VA Militia.
• Samuel Wear, whose family came from Bucks Co, VA, was a border hero and one of the first TN representatives.
• In 1782 several families came to Greene Co from PA. The Galbreaths, Rankins, Magills, Delaneys, Wilsons, Moores and McClungs.
• Early land grants: the Nelsons, Vances, Crosbys, Inmans, Casteels, Pates, Jones and Conways.
• The first pioneers here were the Gillespies, Crocketts, Henry Earnest, Francis Hughes, Nathan Davis, Ashael Rawlings and Col. Daniel Kenedy (first Clerk of Court) and Amos Byrd from Westover Manor in VA.
• Maryland families to settle here were the Howards, Dewitts, Weltys, Hills and Gists.
• From Washington Co., VA were Col Arthur Campbell, the Craigs, Blackburns.
• Earliest NC families were the Loves, Whites, Alexanders, Balches and Vances.
• Robert Wylie was one of the first merchants in Greene County.

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