1781 Sherley Township

Tax Assessment ~ Part 5

 

This image includes the left side of the third page of the original 1781 tax assessment return for Sherley Township, within Bedford County, showing the names of Single Freemen "Bell" through "Johnson".

 

Note: This image was scanned from a photocopy of the original 1781 tax assessment for Sherley 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 Single Freemen which appear on the 1781 Sherley Township, Bedford County tax assessment return, as shown in the image above. It is as accurate as possible. The 1781 tax assessment returns were not included in the published Pennsylvania Archives (1897 Edition, Third Series, Volume XXII ).

John Bell
Samuel Erly
Thomas Morgan
John Galbraith
Nathaniel Hamilton
Robert Galbraith
WIlliam Drennen
James Love
Benjamin Stephens
Daniel Hill
John Doil
John Harris
John ONeal
David Stevens
Joshua Gregrary
William Gadd
John Franklin
John Johnson