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Hearth Tax Registers of the Łuków Land 1775–1794
Kot Wiśniowski
Parish of Zbuczyn, łukowski county.
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Extracts from outside the registers
Records under sigla which the card index does not expand. They give no hearths, so they enter no total.
note: A one-line note without figures and without persons. The siglum „Top.” with a full stop — the same as on card 1) (Lipniak of the parish of Piaski: „Top. Lipniak.”) and on card (read there as „Top”), but it is not in the the list of sources list; the card index gives no expansion of it and I do not supply one. What is new is that here the note carries not the name alone but a designation of the kind of place: „osada Kot” — a settlement, that is, not a village. The form of the name in the singular („Kot”), as in V48.
note: A note of appurtenance, without hearths and without persons — the same type of entry as „P. - Lipniki. - do X.X. dominikanów warszawskich” on card 1) and as the notes „MP - … - do starostwa …” from cards 2) and 275. After the siglum „P.” stands a full stop, and after it an unusually wide gap — about three letters wide — before the name begins; the gap is empty, with no trace of erased writing. What on a cursory look seems to be a vertical stroke just after „P.” is the descender of the letter „p” from the word „Top.” in the line above, not a mark of this line [checked under magnification]. The name in its full form „Kot Wiśniowski.”, with a full stop; the entry ends with a semicolon. It is worth noting that P. speaks of the STAROSTY of Wiśniów (and so does O83), and T90 of the LEASEHOLD of Wiśniów — I do not unify the two forms.
note: A one-line note without figures and without persons. The siglum „Held.” with a full stop — the same as on card 1) („Held. Lipniak.”); it is not in the the list of sources list and the card index gives no expansion, so I propose none. The form of the name is here different from that in all the remaining lines of this card: the plural and the added word „Młyn” — „Koty Młyn”, with a capital „M”. It is the only place in the whole set of cards for this village where the name and the mill stand together as a single designation of the place; it connects directly with the mill of O83 („młyn na rz. Żytni”), with T90 („w uroczysku Koty zwanym - młyn wodny…”) and with Ls.89 on card („Młynarze Koty … młyn posiadają”).
labour dues: łan belonging to the mill (land drawn under corvée): 0.25
note: A description of the mill and of the land beside it, in the formula known from other Ls89 cards („w. do star. …; osiadłości gosp. N; grunta …, łąki …”), but with the centre of gravity reversed: here there is neither the starosty, nor the number of householders, nor the settled homesteads — there is only the mill and only the mill land. LABOUR DUES ARE NOT HEARTHS: „grunt pod pańszczyznę pociągniony tylko ¼ łanu do młyna” is a burden, not a hearth, and does not enter the hearths figure; the only figure of hearths for this village stands in T90 on card (2). The fraction has been checked under thirteenfold magnification: the numerator „1”, an oblique stroke, the denominator „4” with a descending tail — the same shape of the four as in this author's other figures. AN INTERPOLATION WRITTEN ABOVE THE LINE: after the word „Koty” the author put in a large brace drawn by hand, which comes out from under the line, takes in from above the addition „par Zbuczyn” and returns to the line before the word „swoim”; the addition makes precise which Koty is meant — the one in the parish of Zbuczyn. „par” without a full stop. A WORD UNREAD: between „posiadają,” and „grunt” stands a short word of two characters, beginning with „g”, the second character flattened and flooded with ink; under elevenfold magnification, with levelling of the background and separation of the colour channels, at most „gm” or „gn” can be read out of it. A comparison with the writing of the same card decides nothing: the author's own „go” (the beginning of the fourth line, „go, reszta podły”) has a closed and narrow „o”, while the character here is wide and flat; the group „gn” from the word „pociągniony” in the same line fits better in shape, but yields no meaningful word. The thought suggests itself that it is an abandoned, struck-out beginning of the word „grunt”, written and blotted out with a horizontal stroke just before the author wrote „grunt” properly — but that is a hypothesis, not a reading, and I mark it as such [reading uncertain]. It requires inspection of the original. PLACE NAMES IN THE LAST LINE: „leży w cirkumferencji wiszniowa, Stoku i Wólki” — three neighbouring places in the genitive (Wiśniów, Stok, Wólka). The first is written with a SMALL initial, the next two with capitals; I do not unify the forms. The third and fourth letters of the word „wiszniowa” are just as ambiguous as in „Wiszniew” on card — there is no acute accent over them, so I read „sz”, but the spelling „wiśniowa” is equally possible [reading uncertain]. THE SIGLUM: written „Ls.89”, with a full stop after the „s” and without a space before the number, and after it two dots as a mark of the gap before the content („Ls.89 ..”) — exactly as on card 2) („Ls. 89, ..”) and card 4) („L.89. …..”); in the card index the same siglum is written now „Ls. 89”, now „Ls.89”, now „Ls89”, now „Lsp 89” — I do not unify them. The entry does not enter the reckoning of hearths, because the siglum is not in the list of sources and because it gives no hearths.
spellings on the cards: Kot Wiśniowski, Kot, Koty, Koty Młyn, Młynarze Koty
district of łukowski · parish of Zbuczyn · cards 2
a small royal village — the starosty of Wiśniów (starostwo wiśniowskie), the leasehold of Wiśniów; a water mill on the river Żytnia, in the tract (uroczysko) Koty, built with a cottage of its own [O83 (IX), T90, P., Held.]; the millers hold the mill at their own cost, the land drawn under corvée only ¼ of a łan to the mill, the land for the most part watery, the rest poor, boggy meadows; it lies „w cirkumferencji wiszniowa, Stoku i Wólki” [Ls.89; the reading of the first name uncertain, it may also be „wiśniowa” — Wiśniów is meant]
| Year | Source | Entries | Hearths |
|---|---|---|---|
| T89 | Hearth tax register 1789 | 1 | 0 |
| T90 | Hearth tax register 1790 | 1 | 2 |
Without an extract for 1775 and 1794 — no card of this village carries that tariff. It is a missing extract in the card index, not a gap in the numbering of the cards.
This locality in the full edition of the hearth-tax registers — together with a search across all persons, a modern map, Perthées’s engraving of 1786 and a statistical summary.