North Carolina Comptroller's Office, August 28, 1798
Pursuant to the 9th section of an act of the Assembly, passed in the year 1796, entitled, "An act to raise a revenue for the payment of the civil list and contingent charges of government, for the year 1797, and to amend the revenue laws in certain cases,"
I hereby certify that . . . Yancey Bailey, Sheriff of Person; Azariah Graves, Sheriff of Caswell . . . have failed to settle and account on oath for the public taxes of their respective counties for the year 1796.
J, Craven, Comptroller
The North Carolina Journal (Halifax, North Carolina), 24 September 1798.
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An Azariah Graves was indeed Caswell County Sheriff 1795-1797. However, the full identity of that person has not been confirmed, with the following being most likely.
Azariah Graves (1768-1850), son of John Graves (1715-1972) and Isabella Lea Graves (1738-1796). See photograph. During the War of 1812 he became a general.
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