Unlike the censuses, the tax collector did *not* visit the people. Various sources indicate each person had to go to a designated location.

Landon C. Bell, Sunlight On The Southside, p.43 . . . every which justice, in convenient time, before the tenth of June then next following, shall give notice of his being appointed hereto, and of the place he designs to take the same at, by setting up a note thereof, at the church or chapel door of the precinct he is appointed for and shall attend the same, on the said tenth day of June, if it happen not to be of a Sunday, and then on the next day following.

Old Pendleton District Newsletter Vol. 20 No.4 April 2006, 178.
Abstracts from the Pendleton Messenger- 20 Jan 1830: . . . The Tax collector for Pendleton District will be at the following places: . . .
Joy

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   Personal Property and Land Tax  lists many times give
  the dates the tax accessor visited people,  indicating they lived close to each
  other.

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