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Genoa, Michigan Tax List, 1844


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The following is a alphabetical list of the resident tax-payers in the township of Genoa, for the year 1844.


Many of these were enrolled amoung those who had a personal tax to pay only. Among the heavier tax-payers, and the amount of tax they payed, were the following:

The non-resident tax-payers numbered at that time in the neighborhood of 100.

From some of the early records it is utterly impossible to determine the correct orthography of certain proper names, as many as four or five different ways being often found of spelling the name of but one person. This will account for any errors in that respect which may be discovered.