This page includes a transcription from the published Pennsylvania Archives (1897 Edition, Third Series, Volume XXII, Pages 12-15) of the 1773 tax assessment return for Brothers Valley Township, within Bedford County. The original return for Brothers Valley 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 Brothers Valley 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 69 and 70) 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 { }.
Gabriel Abraham {Gabriel Abrahams} James Black Henry Bruner George Bruner John Bowman Casper Stoy Joseph Jennings Francis Hay James Hogland John Hendrix {not included in History Of Bedford...} Edward Henderson William Haskin Edward Higgins Mathew Judy John Sinclear {John St. Clair} George Shidler {George Shider} Henry Shidler {Henry Shidlet} Jacob Wingart Attewell Worrall {Atwell Worrell} Richard Wells Thomas Ogle Daniel Pursley John Hankbaugh {John Hinkbaugh} |