Republic of Texas

Arranged alphabetically this work lists the names and counties of residence of approximately 18000 Texas taxpayers. (A poll tax of one dollar was levied on every white male resident over the age of twenty-one and on women who were heads of household.) By 1846 when Texas became the thirty-sixth state in the Union there were sixty-seven county governments already organized as functioning units of the state yet no authorized census of the state was undertaken until 1850. This 1846 poll list compiled from the original tax rolls housed in the Texas State Archives is actually the nearest thing we have to a complete census of the period.