| This page includes images of the pages of additional papers associated with the original 1779 tax assessment return for Bethel Township, within Bedford County. The first image is a narrative by the tax collector, detailing the routes he took in order to collect the taxes. The remaining pages are essentially promises to pay by residents who could not pay at this time. |
| Note: These images were scanned from a photocopy of the original 1779 tax assessment for Bethel 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. |
