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Ancestry.com. Impôts et exonérations, Pennsylvanie, États-Unis, 1768 à 1801 [base de données en ligne]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Données originales :

Tax & Exoneration Lists, 1762–1794. Series No. 4.61; Records of the Office of the Comptroller General, RG-4. Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

 Impôts et exonérations, Pennsylvanie, États-Unis, 1768 à 1801

Les premiers résidents de la Pennsylvanie payaient des taxes sur plusieurs produits, des terrains aux tables de billard. Ces documents énumèrent les contribuables de 18 comtés de la Pennsylvanie.

This database contains various tax lists from late-eighteenth-century Pennsylvania.

Historical Background

This database contains exoneration returns and diverse tax lists from Revolutionary-era Pennsylvania. These include documents for supply taxes, 18-penny taxes, liquor taxes, carriage and billiard table taxes, and others. Supply taxes were levied to help pay debts from the Revolutionary War, while the 18-penny tax included both a poll tax on freemen and property taxes assessed to back issuances of paper money.

Records from the following counties are included:

  • Allegheny
  • Bedford
  • Berks
  • Bucks
  • Chester
  • Cumberland
  • Dauphin
  • Fayette
  • Franklin
  • Huntingdon
  • Lancaster
  • Montgomery
  • Northampton
  • Northumberland
  • Philadelphia
  • Washington
  • Westmoreland
  • York

What You May Find in the Records

Details on the lists vary by tax type, but they can include

  • name
  • residence
  • occupation
  • land owned
  • Negroes owned
  • tax rate
  • whether a man was a single freeman