| This image includes the top portion of the fourth page of the original 1774 tax assessment return for Colerain Township, within Bedford County, showing the (Single) Freemen's names, two fairly illegible Inmate's names, and the owners of uncultivated lands i.e. Non-Residents. Note that someone has written (upside down at the very bottom of this image) in a hand unlike the actual document, "about 1775". This has erroneously led some researchers to assume that the date of this return was 1775, rather than 1774. |
| Note: This image was scanned from a photocopy of the original 1774 tax assessment for Colerain 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 1774 Colerain 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 66-69). 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.
| Jacob Harth {Jacob Harsh} Georg Oglebe {George Ogleby} Henrey Armstrong {Henry Armstrong} William Howak (crossed out) Jno. William (crossed out) Jerimiah Dawson {Jeremiah Dawson} Jno. Wright (crossed out) William Francis |
Note: There are two names listed next, under the heading Inmates, but they are too faint and illegibile to read. They are not included in the published Pennsylvania Archives.
The following is a transcription of the names of the owners of uncultivated lands i.e. Non-Residents which appear on the 1774 Colerain 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 66-69). 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.
| Johnson & Little Willim Trent James Martin William Henrey {William Henry} William Buchanon {William Buchannan} John Allison Robert Callender & Co Benjamin Davis |
