An original 1802 Kentucky Register's Office receipt acknowledging payment of land taxes on a 200-acre tract in Mason County along the Ohio River.
Completed in manuscript on 3 November 1802, the receipt records payment by Nashl. McGee through Joseph Crockett, covering taxes, mills assessment, and advertising fees for the 1801 tax year. The document identifies the tract as containing 200 acres in Mason County on the Ohio River, making it an excellent example of Kentucky's early land administration following statehood.
Early Kentucky government forms from this period are considerably scarcer than later nineteenth-century tax receipts and provide an excellent glimpse into frontier settlement, taxation, and property ownership during the early years of the Commonwealth.
Details
- Original printed and manuscript document
- Register's Office form dated 1802
- Completed 3 November 1802
- Mason County, Kentucky
- 200-acre Ohio River tract
- Condition: original folds, scattered light staining, minor edge wear and small losses, otherwise well preserved with strong manuscript entries.
- Approximately folio size (about 12 × 15 inches, estimated).
An appealing and increasingly collectible piece of early Kentucky frontier history, suitable for collectors of land grants, western expansion, Ohio River history, genealogy, or early American government documents.
