1773 Bedford Township

Tax Assessment ~ Part 3
Freemen

   This page includes a transcription from the published Pennsylvania Archives (1897 Edition, Third Series, Volume XXII, Pages 18-21) of the 1773 tax assessment return for Bedford Township, within Bedford County. The original return for Bedford Township no longer is in existence in the archives maintained in Bedford County. The transcription is for the Freemen.
Note: Trancripts of certain tax assessment returns (including Bedford Township) were included in the 1884 publication of History Of Bedford, Somerset and Fulton Counties, Pennsylvania, by Waterman, Watkins & Co. In that volume (on pages 67 and 68) a transcript consisting of names similar to this transcript is assigned the date of 1772. In the following listing, variations of the names, as transcribed in the History Of Bedford... are presented within parentheses { }.

{James Beatty}
John Casebeer
Adam Croil {Adam Croyle}
John Croil {John Croyle}
John Colvin
David Espy, Esqueir
Robert Galbraith, Esqueir
John Carlin
John Carling
John Keeler {John Keller}
Cornelius McAulley {Cornelius McCauley}
John McKenzie
Andrew Nagle
Jacob Saylor
John Hay {John Stey}
David Sample, Esqueir
Nicholas Shoveler
Hugh Simpson
George Wolfe
Jacob Fether {Jacob Feather}
John Debert {John Dibert}
Thomas Kenton
George Cowfman {George Kauffman}
William Eliot {William Elliott}