Cumberland County, North Carolina Taxables, 1767, 1777-1783, and 1815

By: Dr. Albert Bruce Pruitt, Pub. 2015, reprinted 2026, 222 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-804-2. Cumberland County was formed in 1754 from Bladen County.These lists of taxable people contain the names of head of household of farms or the overseer where there was no master or mistress of the farm, names of white servants, names of wives and children, names of free mullattoes, and the names of both negro males and females. These records can act like a mid-year census helping the genealogists trace a person or family when and where they lived and owned land. The Index for this book mentions approximately 4,600 persons.