The Tyrrell County Processioners Book, 1747/1748, is a bound book that contains the
processioner's returns for each district (cantoon) of Tyrrell County (St. Andrews Parish) for the
year 1747/1748. There are also several lists in the front and back that appear to be
partial or complete tax lists and a few stock marks are recorded. Taken together, they
should provide a pretty complete list of the inhabitants of Tyrrell County for that year.
The very first and last pages are omitted here. They contain the presentment of the
book to the Honorable Cullen Pollock and the registration of the book, along with a
few unrelated notes including one concerning Thos. West whose name does not appear elsewhere
in the book.
The purpose of processioning was to confirm the boundaries
of each person's land. Neighbors often were present at the processioning of common
boundaries. The information recorded by the processioners of each
district varies from being a simple list of the landowners whose land was processioned and
the amount of land owned to a listing that includes metes and bounds, neighbors,
etc. A few even identify relationships.
The processioner's book is broken into three parts for display purposes only. All names
recorded in the book are indexed. The index includes the apparent tax lists in the front
and back. The pages on which the name in the index appears are also listed, as is the
number of times the name appears on that page.
Just click on the page you want to go to that is listed next to the name in the index
and you will go to that page in the processioner's book. Use your browser's BACK button to return to
the index where you left it. You can also go to the processioner's book and read it from
the beginning to the end.