| This image includes the second page of the original 1778 tax assessment return for Bethel Township, within Bedford County, showing Residents "Stockwell" through "Weston" on the left side and Single Freemen "Weston" through "Mitchel" on the right side. |
| Note: This image was scanned from a photocopy of the original 1778 tax assessment for Bethel 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 Residents which appear on the 1778 Bethel Township, Bedford County tax assessment return, as shown in the image above. It is as accurate as possible. It should be noted that certain of the names are written as surname, then given name, separated by a comma; certain of the names are written as given, then surname. The reason for this is not kown. This return is not included in the published Pennsylvania Archives (1897 Edition, Third Series, Volume XXII). In fact, no returns are included in the published Pennsylvania Archives for the year 1778.
| Stockwell, Willson James (illegible) Wylie, Conrood Philip Gilliland (illegible), Peter Jacob Manes (illegible), Henry George Endslow Hoylig, Nilson Widow Stilwells Henry Sowsly James Graham (illegible) James McCormick George Walker (illegible), Longstreth Michel Singledicker Powell George Thomas Morton (illegible) Ounger (illegible) Ounger (illegible) Reynolds (illegible) (illegible) Smith (illegible) (illegible) Morton (illegible) Graham (illegible) Smith Jacob Rusk Sen John Rusk Peter Rusk James Curry (illegible) Jacob Hart William Breathat Thomas Weston |
The following is a transcription of the names of the Single Freemen which appear on the 1778 Bethel Township, Bedford County tax assessment return, as shown in the image above. It is as accurate as possible. It should be noted that certain of the names are written as surname, then given name, separated by a comma; certain of the names are written as given, then surname. The reason for this is not kown. This return is not included in the published Pennsylvania Archives (1897 Edition, Third Series, Volume XXII). In fact, no returns are included in the published Pennsylvania Archives for the year 1778.
| William Weston Capt. James Waxford Alexander Hamm Robort Gray Joseph Waxford John Coombs Jess Coombs Lucas Sliker Obidiah Melott Thomas Mitchel |
