Nova Scotia Poll Tax, 1791 - 1793
A poll (capitation) tax was a levy raised by charging a sum of money from each male over the age of twenty-one in a district. Although one would expect such an enumeration to provide a list of all such persons in a district at that particular time, it seems that this was not quite the case, due to some being missed, the tax avoided by misrepresentation of age, i.e. younger than twenty-one, etc. However, they are useful records, especially in the case of Upper Prospect, as long as the reader bears in mind that it appears that the majority of those on the list were probably fishermen, who lived else where than Prospect. This can readily be seen by a comparison of this list to the 1827 census which listed "heads" of families (based upon T.M., Punch "Genealogy Research in Nova Scotia", P.78- Nimbus Publishing 1983).
It is to be noted that there are 137 names and that they are presented in the order of the original document which was in columnar format. The (*) denotes that annotation "planter" and a question mark denotes that a name as typed could be misspelled as a result of poor readability of the document from which it was transcribed.
| William Herren * | John Neal* | Patrick Mahaney | Peter Maning |
| John Cossins | David Malchacy | Garrit Dawton | James Byrnes |
| John Doran | Edward Kennedy | Richard Mead | John Mavy |
| Patrick Meagher | Michael St. George | Alexander McDonald* | Dennis Fahey |
| Michael Murphy | John Dunn | Patrick Fielding | Maurice Power* |
| Daniel Reddy | Patrick Heffernan | Michael Hollaway | William Burke |
| Daniel Kinsley | James Doherty* | William Arnold | Thomas Glover |
| Timothy Mullins* | William Dadden | John Burns | John Merry |
| Richard Ward | Edward Welch* | James Ryan | William Power |
| Michael Moore | Thomas Poor | David Redmond* | Andrew Forrester |
| William Cole | Edward St. George | John MCarty | Michael Hayes* |
| Dennis Noonan | Thomas Manuel | Thomas Hallahan | Michael Fogarty |
| James Frampton | John Fitzgerald | Darby Donovan | Dennis Sullivan* |
| Simon Dempsey | Patrick Dawton | Mathew Connel | Peter Jackson |
| Christopher Newlin | Daniel Morrisen | John Fanning | Owen Sullivan |
| James Murphy | Patrick Hunt | Michael Waters | James Duggan |
| Patrick Rinley | Thomas Dollard* | Michael Daniel | John Power* |
| Patrick Boyde | David Quan | William Orman | Thomas Brown |
| William Delaney | Edmund Henesey | Maurice Murphy | James Cooling |
| John Millea* | Patrick McBrearty | Redmond Caton | Michael Cooke |
| Francis Sherry | Patrick Cullin | William Shanahan | Thomas Peele |
| Michael But(l)ter?* | William Birmingham | Lawrence Redmond | Thomas Cooling |
| John Burns | Matthew Fitzgerald* | Nicholas Ryan * | Joshua Cooling |
| Mathew Carravan | James Dower | Robert Carr | Joseph Cooling |
| Henry Clanney | Thomas Murphy | Roger Power* | William Power* |
| James Huckey | Edmund Glasscuck | Edward Murphy | John Holbourne |
| Edmund Saul | Thomas Cuiley | William Morash | Thomas Mackay |
| David Sullivan | Edward Burke | John Dear | Michael Quinlin |
| John Cuilly | James Ryan | Lawrence Newman | John Whalon* |
| Thomas Kennedy* | Owen Gallahan | Patrick Lyons? | John Neville |
| John Newman | Walter Power | Patrick Duggan | William Jefferes |
| James Anderson | James Chayters | Silvester McGrath | Thomas Meagher |
| Richard Mullins* | Michael Williams | Henry Welch | |
| Patrick Las(r)key? | John Martin | John Forrester | |
| Dennis Meagher* | Edward Power | Thomas Sharp |
Source
Public Archives of Canada
1792 Census M-5219
Halifax
Public Archives of Nova Scotia
Reel # 13580
Information supplied by Ed Rogers .
