Hi Judith,

Straighten this out? Probably not, but I can explain what we did. Per the 
Montgomery personal property tax list microfilm there are 2 book covers for 
the 1787 tax lists. The first book cover says "A". However there are 2 tax 
lists in this book. The first tax list is by Bird Smith. The second tax list 
is by David McGavock. The second book cover says "B" and there is only one 
tax list in this book. This tax list is by James Newell.

In almost all cases there is only one tax list per book and each book has a 
handwritten letter to identify it as A, B, etc. The 1787 books are a bit 
different. What we did is use consecutive letters, starting with A, for all 
three lists, in the order that they are microfilmed. This results in us 
calling the Bird Smith list as A, the David McGavock list as B and the James 
Newell list as C (even though the book called this one B).

By the way, there is no standardization for calling these lists A, B, etc. 
Someone wrote the letter designations after the book labels were 
type-written. We have noticed so many consectutive years where the A in one 
year is a B or C for the next year. What is really important is to know who 
the commissioner was and/or what district the tax list is for.

We think it rather humorous that the only list without it's own cover, our B 
list, is the only list that Netti Schreiner-Yantis and ourselves have with 
the same letter assigned to it !!

Steve and Bunny

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