1775 Dublin Township

Tax Assessment ~ Part 4

 

This image includes the third page of the original 1775 tax assessment return for Dublin Township, within Bedford County, showing the names of some Residents, two Inmates and two owners of uncultivated lands i.e. Non-Residents. This page actually appears to have been a 'mistake' so to speak, because it seems unfinished and the Residents which are listed on this sheet were also written on another, with these being crossed out. Twenty-two additional names of Inmates are included in the published Pennsylvania Archives, which do not appear on this page. Those names are included below. Also included below are the names of eleven (Single) Freemen, only the title, for which, appears on this page.

 

Note: This image was scanned from a photocopy of the original 1775 tax assessment for Dublin 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 Inmates which appear on the 1775 Dublin 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 102-105). 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.

Pasks, Leabren {not in Pennsylvania Archives}
Wright, William {not in Pennsylvania Archives}
{Aquilla, James}
{Justis, William}
{Torlton, Hugh}
{Lain, Corbin}
{Lain, Samuel}
{Goodin, Henry}
{Swain, Samuel}
{Corbin, William}
{Morgan, John}
{Stadiser, William}
{Picket, Hethcoat}
{Goyles, Stephen}
{Price, John}
{Wain, John}
{Swicher, John}
{Gasertee, Patrick}
{Fitzbibons, Richard}
{Markee, James}
{Anderson, Thomas}
{Canderal, James}
{Roberson, Chilcoat}
{Long, Benjamin}

   The following is a transcription of the names of the owners of uncultivated lands, i.e. Non-Residents which appear on the 1775 Dublin 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 102-105). 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.

Boyd, (in Langester) {Boyd in Lancaster}
Magaw, David

   The following is a transcription of the names of the (Single) Freemen which appear on the 1775 Dublin Township, Bedford County tax assessment return as presented in the published Pennsylvania Archives (1897 Edition, Third Series, Volume XXII, Pages 102-105). The pages of this return maintained in Bedford County do not include any of these names.

{James Clugage}
{George Clugage}
{Robert Clugage}
{William Ward}
{William Lefaver}
{Casper Smith}
{John Warrington}
{Thomas Vahon}
{John Caldwell}
{Samuel Weston}
{Benjamin Burd}