# Simon Lackey: reported 1799 Surry tax entry

Recorded 2 November 2026 from the user's specific citation. **Updated status: the supplied locator resolves to an unrelated church film. A separate original 1799 entry for Simon Lakey has now been inspected, with materially different district and assessment fields.** Sources S117 and S119.

## Citation and reading as supplied

1799 Surry County Tax List, **[Captain Jarvis's / Yadkin District]**, line **14**; *Surry County Tax Records 1771–1804*, **C.R.092.701.1**, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh; digital images, FamilySearch, film/DGS **007856641**, image **412**.

| Name | Acres | White polls | Black polls |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| Simon Lackey | 0 | 1 | 0 |

The district wording is unresolved in the supplied citation and is retained in brackets. No manuscript page number or assessment date within 1799 has been supplied. No spouse, parent, child or age is named in the supplied reading.

The supplied [image 412 route](https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007856641?i=411), assuming zero-based indexing, was checked after authentication and identifies an unrelated church film. The earlier sign-in obstacle is resolved; the locator conflict remains. Targeted public-web searches did not independently expose this exact entry; those search negatives do not disprove the supplied reading.

## What this could contribute

If the image and its headings confirm the reading, it would establish a named Simon Lackey taxpayer in Surry in 1799 with the reported assessment. This is chronologically compatible with the family's reported 1778 birth, but neither the poll figure nor that compatibility establishes his exact age or identity. Check the applicable assessment rules, dates and column meanings before inferring any age threshold.

The entry would offer an earlier named tax record to compare with the anomalous original 1800 Simon Laky census row and the reported 1801 Surry jury service. It would not itself supply the missing adult male in the 1800 count, name wife Ruth, identify son Jacob, or call Thomas his father.

## Verification and triangulation

1. Confirm film identity, the complete 1799 list heading, district caption and column headings. Identify the captain's full name rather than choosing between Jarvis and Yadkin from the citation alone.
2. Inspect line 14 with adjoining lines and any continuation. Verify surname, tally placement, abbreviations, cancellations, totals and whether blanks have been read as zero.
3. Record the entire immediate associate group and compare it with Thomas/Ann, Elizabeth, Hadley, Dobbins and the land-entry neighbors. Row order alone does not establish physical adjacency.
4. Search surviving earlier and later annual lists with district coverage controlled. Until that comparison is completed, describe the item as a **reported 1799 entry**, not an established first appearance, first taxable year or migration date.
5. Compare the taxpayer with other same-name candidates. A single poll is not a parent-child statement. Thomas → Simon and Simon → Jacob retain their derived-family-record grades.

At the initial target-only stage, no manuscript image had been inspected. The follow-up below supplies an original-image reading; no hint acceptance, tree edit or parentage upgrade has been made.


## Authenticated follow-up: locator correction required

FamilySearch login succeeded. The supplied digital group **007856641** resolves to *Church records, 1745–1932 [Falkner Swamp Reformed]*, including when queried at index 411. The previous pending-authentication explanation is superseded: this locator does not identify a Surry tax manuscript. The assessment and first-appearance claim remain unverified, rather than disproved as historical events.

A genuine candidate for the period is official [catalog 267304](https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/catalog/267304), *An alphabetical list of taxable property in Surry County for 1790–1800*: microfilm **19959, item 3**, digital group **7519400**. The catalog calls it a microreproduction of a manuscript and warns it was **incorrectly titled Deed book C**. This catalog was inspected; the reported Simon row has not been found. Do not simply transfer image 412 or its line number from the unrelated film to this candidate. Verify the item title, actual dates and page context before assigning any entry to 1799.

## Original 1799 Simon Lakey entry located — S119

FamilySearch DGS **007519400**, displayed **image 625**, zero-based index **624**, stable [image 3QS7-998Q-Q9WQ](https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-998Q-Q9WQ). The preceding [image 624, 3QSQ-G98Q-Q9C2](https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G98Q-Q9C2), starts **Captain Scott's district for 1799** and labels the columns **Lands / White polls / Black polls / Studs**. The target is in the following image's upper-right panel. Both full images were downloaded through the offered control and visually inspected; the target panel was also enlarged from the full-resolution download.

| Original name reading | Lands | White polls | Black polls | Studs |
|---|---:|---|---|---|
| Lakey James | blank | 1 | blank | blank |
| Lakey Francis | 142 | 2 | blank | blank |
| **Lakey Simon** | **320** | **blank** | **blank** | **blank** |

These three entries are separated by other taxpayers. The Simon row follows **Lane Taylor** (460 lands, 2 white polls) and precedes **Lovill Edward for Wilbourns estate**, with an administrator notation and 640 lands. Blank cells are transcribed as blank, not silently converted to numeric zero. Row order is partly alphabetical and does not establish adjoining property or kinship. The supplied line-14 assertion has not been reconciled.

This is positive evidence for a named Simon Lakey in the **1799 Surry tax register**, but it does **not** confirm the supplied Captain Jarvis/Yadkin, 0-acre/1-poll reading. It does not establish that this taxpayer is Simon reportedly born in 1778, husband of Ruth, father of Jacob, or son of Thomas. The acreage and lack of a poll mark make comparison with other Simon Lakey candidates and consecutive years necessary. No exemption, age or absence is inferred from the blank poll cell.

Additional selected original leaves establish 1798 Hudspeth senior/junior district headings and a 1799 Hudspeth junior heading. The latter's continuation lists Simon Hadley, Thomas Hadley and Simon Hadley junior, while its L-surname group reads Liberton Daniel and Longino Thomas. This is useful association control, not a Lakey family relationship statement. The register's original totals table at displayed image 636 is explicitly dated 1799; displayed image 637 begins 1800.

The local archive holds **36 visually inspected full images**, their source map and verified SHA-256 manifest in ignored `evidence-images/surry-tax-1790-1800-20261102/`. Selected leaves have been reviewed, not the entire 1790–1800 film. Some attempted downloads did not yield files; those pages are not counted as visually inspected. Neither a complete 1799 negative nor a demonstrated first appearance is claimed.

Next compare the Scott-district 320-acre assessment with earlier/later tax lists, the grant and deed indexes, and the 1800 census candidates. Preserve the reported 0/1/0 entry as an unresolved separate assertion until its actual manuscript is produced.