| This image includes the top portion of the third page of the original 1775 tax assessment return for Brothers Valley Township, within Bedford County, showing the names of the owners of non-cultivated lands i.e. Non-Residents. The listing presented in the Pennsylvania Archives includes additional names which do not appear on any of the pages maintained in the Bedford County collection. Those additional names are included below. |
| Note: This image was scanned from a photocopy of the original 1775 tax assessment for Brothers Valley Township, within Bedford County. The originals of the tax assessment returns were stored, for many years, in Vault #1 in the basement of the Bedford County Court House. The webmaster of this site was given permission by the officials of the Bedford County Court system to photocopy the original returns in the 1980s. A year or two after the original returns were photocopied, a pipe burst in the vault in which the returns were stored, causing water damage to many records, and the original tax assessment returns were subsequently transferred to the Pioneer Historical Society of Bedford County for storage. |
The following is a transcription of the names of the Non-Residents which appear on the 1775 Brothers Valley Township, Bedford County tax assessment return, as shown in the image above. It is as accurate as possible. Certain names are followed by a name in brackets { }. These are included in order to show how the names are spelled in the published Pennsylvania Archives (1897 Edition, Third Series, Volume XXII, Pages 111-114). Apparently, the compilers of the published Pennsylvania Archives decided that the names should be spelled the way they thought proper, rather than how the tax assessors and/or collectors actually spelled them.
| John Wilkey Frances Cample {Francis Campbell} Dto {Francis Campbell} Dto {Francis Campbell} Ephream Blain {Ephraim Blain} Mesrs Fisher & Bell {Messrs. Fisher, Carmeck & Doctor Smith} Dto {Ditto} Dto {Ditto} Dto {Ditto} Dto {Ditto} Dto {Ditto} Dto {Ditto} Dto {Ditto} John Markley {John Merkley} David Asprey {Davis Espy} Christian Youther {Christain Youther} James Smith Adam Cook Jacob Good {William Sinkler} George Shaver Gabriell Rhodes {Gabrial Rhoads} Christain Shook {Christain Shock} Isaac Hull Nicholas Miller John Rench {Michael Sills & Co} {Christain Berkey} {John Fry} {Henry Canagan} {Powell Troup} {Nicholas Coleman} {Messer Hooper & Co} {Ditto} {Ditto} {Ditto} Jacob Ellenberger Jacob Goot Gasper Shrok James Rush Christain Conaga Henry Rhoads John Stump Henry Rhoads John Stump John Stump John Saylor John Sinkler Samuel Wallace |
