| This image includes the third page of the original 1776 tax assessment return for Quemahoning Township, within Bedford County showing the names of owners of uncultivated lands i.e. Non-Residents . |
| Note: This image was scanned from a photocopy of the original 1776 tax assessment for Quemahoning, 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 Non-Residents which appear on the 1776 Quemahoning Township, Bedford County tax assessment return, as shown in the image above. It is as accurate as possible. But it should be noted that all of the nmes on this particular page ends in the letter 's', which has been omitted. 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 128-130). 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.
| Saml Wallace {Samuel Wallace} Joseph Husband {Joseph Husbands} Willm Cole {William Coyle} John Muser {John Musser} Charls Cambel {Charles Campbell} Jeames Wilson {James Wilson} Lette Willson {Litte Wilsons} Rodulf Gelmor {Rudolph Gilmore} John Stilwagon {John Stillwagons} Pence Layman {Pence Laymans} James Mires {James Myers} Henry Roads & Com {Henry Rhoads & Co} Dto {The same} Dto {The same} Dto {The same} John Roads & George Funk {Jn'o Rhoads and George Funk} Vallintine Delabauk {Valentine Delabough} Muser & Comp {Musser and Co} Dto {Musser & Co.} Doct Smith & Com {Doctor Smith & Co} Dto {The same} James Smith John Peters |
