Some comments on Tax Lists: 1. Arthur B Hagan and Arthur R Hagan lived not very far apart from around 1805 until their deaths (around 1830). 2. Although Sandy Gorin listed an Arthur B Hagan, Jr, in her abstracts, I didn't find him in the originals. I think Sandi misread something. You will find three Arthurs: a) Arthur B Hagan b) Arthur R Hagan, Sr c) Arthur R Hagan, Jr 3. It appears that Arthur B Hagan died about 1828 and Hiram Hagin, among others, lived on his land after his death. His wife Jane was listed one year after A B Hagans death as occupant of his land. It is my feeling that she lived with Hiram most of the time until her death. 4. Arthur R Hagan appears to have died about 1831. There are no records for 1832, but in 1833 his land was occupied by Lydia Hagan, Sr. I am sure that this was his wife. A Lydia Hagan,Jr was listed starting in the 1820s. This is undoubtedly the Lydia who bore three daughters of Smith Barlow. A lot of things suggest that Lydia Jr is the daughter of Arthur R and Lydia Hagan. 5. It seems pretty clear to me that the Arthur Hagan,Jr, who married Elizabeth Harris is certainly Arthur R Hagan, Jr and is not the son of Black Arthur. Some more comments on Tax Lists: I think it is almost certainly the case that Arthur Hagan Jr is the son of Red Arthur Hagan, who came to Monroe(Barren) Co no later than 1807 and lived in the same place until his death arounf 1831. I will go through some of the tax years and lay out my case. In my opinion, the most important column in the tax list is the "entered" column. This is the name of the original grantee and it it stays with the land when the land is sold. Thus a given piece of land can be identified by the entered name. This is one of the keys in following the different Arthur Hagans through the years in the tax lists. I have a copy of the tax list 1799-1840 in front of me. This commentary needs to be read in the presence of this list. The lists start with 1799 but the first Arthur shows up in 1802. 1802: Arthur Higgins is taxed on 200 acres of land entered to Cornelius Cain. Almost every year until his death he is taxed on the Cain parcel. 1803: Arthur Hagins again taxed on 200 acres entered to Cain. 1804: Arthur Hagin again taxed on the Cain land. 1805: Arthur Hagin taxed on Cain land and another parcel. 1806: Arthur Hagin taxed on Cain land. 1807: Another Arthur arrives. The Arthur livng on Cain is labeled (B A). The new Arthur lives on two parcels, one entered to Anderson and the other to Mullinix. This new Arthur is labeled (R A). From what follows in later years it is clear that (B A) meant Black Arthur and (R A) meant Red Arthur. 1808: This year one Arthur is labeled Black (all his parcels are lumped together and name entered is not listed). The other Arthur lives on the Anderson parcel (so is undoubtedly the one labeled R A in previous year) but is labeled Jnr. At this period of time it was common to label the younger of two with the same name as "Jnr" even if the two were not father and son. 1809: This year one Arthur lives on the Cain land and is labeled (B A). The other Arthur lives on the Anderson parcel and is labeled (R A). At this point I am willing to say that who we have here are Black Arthur who lives on the Cain parcel and Red Arthur who lives on the Anderson parcel (among others). 1810: Now we have 3 Arthurs. One is labeled Sn and lives on 250 acres in Mill Creek watershed. The entered name is not given, but in 1809 the Cain parcel was 250 acres Mill Cr. Thus Arthur Sn is probably Black Arthur, who indeed is supposedly the older the two. The Arthur living on the Anderson parcel (Red Arthur) is labeled Jr. The new Arhtur (to whom is not yet assigned a color) is labeled Arthur the younger. He has no land and is taxed on a horse. 1811: Here again the Arthur on the Anderson and Mullinix land is labeled (R) and the one on the Cain land is labeled (B). This year the third ArThur is called Jr and again has no land. 1812: The Arthur on Anderson-Mullinix is again labeled (R) and the Arthur on Cain land is (B). The third Arthur is called Arthur Y (younger) and has no land. At this point there is no doubt in my mind that Red Arthur lives on the Anderson-Mullinix parcels and Black Arthur lives on the Cain parcel. Up to now the third (younger) Arthur is colorless but this is about to change. 1813: This year the Anderson-Mullinix Arthur is labeled with (Red) and the Cain Arthur is labeled with (Black). Now the 3rd Arthur is also labeled (Red) and lives on 200 acres entered to Blakey. Next to him lives Jonas Hagan also on 200 acres labeled to Blakey. Why would the third Arthur be labeled (Red) if he were not the son of Red Arthur? But we go on. 1814: The Cain Arthur is again labeled (B) and the Anderson-Mullinix Arthur is labeled (R). The younger Arthur is not listed but we note that Jonas now lists 400 acres entered to Blakey. I suspect that young Arthur was with Jonas and lumped the two 200 acre parcels together. 1815: Again the Cain Arthur is (B) and the other one (R). I think red Arthur's Anderson parcel (200 Mashes Cr) is mislabeled as Hagan (it goes back to Anderson next year) and the other parcel was entered to a name which was hard to read but almost certainly was Mullinix, as usual. Again young Arthur is absent but Jonas has all 400 acres of the Blakey parcel. 1816: This year Jonas is gone (he left the county for a few years) and young Arthur is back. Again red Arthur is labeled Sr and young Arthur is labeled J(r) but also labeled Red. The Cain Arthur is again labeled Black. I am going to quit this year by year stuff. There is now an obvious conclusion. Clearly we have identified Black Arthur Hagan as the occupant of the Cain parcel. He will continue to list the Cain parcel until his death around 1828. Clearly we have identified Red Arthur Hagan as the occupant of the Anderson-Mullinix parcels. He will continue to list these parcels until his death arounf 1831. In future years (most of the time) young Arthur will list the Blakey parcel. Already young Arthur has been labeled twice with the word Red. In the coming years you will see a consistency in the labeling. The Cain Arthur will always be listed as Arthur B. The Anderson-Mullinix Arthur will be listed as Arthur R Sr and the Blakey Arthur will be listed as Arthur R Jr. Not once in the tax lists do we see young Arthur labeled B or Black. To me the obvious conclusion is that young Arthur is the son of Red Arthur.