Bucks County PA Archives History - Taxlists .....Solesbury Township 1779 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com April 10, 2008, 12:38 am TRANSCRIPT OF THE FOUR MILLION STATE TAX COUNTY OF BUCKS FOR THE YEAR 1779 BUCKS COUNTY TRANSCRIPT. - 1779 Acres Horses Cattle Servants Samuel Armitage 200 3 4 John Barcroft 184 4 8 Crispin Blackfan 220 4 4 Jacob Beans 125 3 3 Wm. Blackfan 240 4 6 John Balderson 180 3 5 Hannah Balderson 150 1 1 Zachariah Betts 115 3 5 Enoch Betts 65 2 3 Abram Bennet 30 2 1 Hezekiah Bye 140 2 4 Wm. Barcroft 100 1 1 Jos. Banes 96 2 2 Wm. Betts 1 1 Humphrey Baughan 2 Ambrose Barcroft 2 3 Mordica Balderston 2 3 Hezekiah Bye 1 1 Thomas Cary 165 3 5 Jonathan Balderston 30 2 2 John Cooglar 59 2 3 John Coryell 500 7 4 Ralph Coogill 2 2 Tice Cowell 131 4 7 Jonathan Cotteral 2 Patrick Canock 1 Ebenezer Dean 2 4 Samuel Davis 1 2 Thomas Dawson 450 4 6 Jonathan Dann 1 James Dubre 1 2 Jacob Dean 1 1 Jacob Doman 2 3 Joshua Ely 100 3 5 Geo. Ely 227 3 5 John Ely 89 3 4 Hugh Ely 100 2 3 Thomas Ellicott 170 3 4 Joseph Eastburn, Sen. 125 3 6 Robert Eastburn 225 3 5 Joseph Eastburn 175 2 2 Benjamin Eastburn 78 2 2 Joseph Trisher 25 1 2 Wm. Magill 130 2 4 Yeoman Gillingham 224 4 4 John Mofford 150 2 3 Wm. Hartly 150 3 3 Wm. Hammilton 211 1 3 Stephen Hammilton 100 3 4 Roger Hartly 50 2 2 Benjamin Hartly 100 2 2 John Hutchinson 200 2 8 Abram Heed 1 Anthony Hartly 140 2 3 Matthias Hutchinson 300 3 8 Thomas Hill 1 2 Daniel Hough 50 1 1 David Hampton 75 1 2 John Hough 1 1 Joseph Hambleson 3 2 Jonathan Ingham, Ju. 3 5 Jonas Ingham 3 3 Samuel Kitchin 2 Paul Kister 40 2 2 Wm. Kitchin 160 3 4 Wm. Kitchin, Jun. 1 Wm. Neely 100 4 4 Thomas Lewis 150 3 2 Jonathan Kinsey 65 Wm. Michenor est. 30 2 2 Jonas Paxton 30 2 James Peller 144 2 4 Isaac Peller 100 2 3 Christian Pearson 3 5 Aaron Paxton 200 3 5 Isaiah Paxton 120 3 5 Joseph Paxton 120 3 5 Aaron Phillips 100 3 3 Oliver Paxtson 200 3 5 Jacob Paxton 80 3 5 Rubin Pownell 125 3 4 Widow Pownell 125 3 4 Thomas Paxton 170 3 3 Isaac Pickering 147 3 4 Jesse Pickering 90 2 3 John Pickering 90 2 3 Moses Paxson 200 2 2 Henry Paxson 200 3 7 Benjamin Paxson 115 2 4 Wm. Pettit 150 3 5 Elnathan Pettit 100 6 5 Daniel Pettit 200 5 6 Jonathan Pickering 2 2 Mahlon Paxson 2 2 Lewis Palmer 1 Wm. Pettit, Jr. 1 2 Abram Paxson 300 3 5 Benjamin Pitcock 187 4 3 Aron Quick 130 2 4 Wm. Roberts 86 2 2 Edward Rice 2 2 Joseph Rice 1 1 Thomas Rice 1 1 Samuel Ramsey 2 2 Thomas Ross 3 3 Thomas Ross, Sen. 200 2 4 Thomas Rose 100 2 2 Thomas Smith 189 2 3 John Simpson 150 3 5 Wm. Scarborough 1 James Scarborough 200 1 1 Samuel Schofield 200 2 2 John Shepherd 3 1 Trubard Sebring 100 4 3 Thomas Seabring 150 2 2 Joseph Skelton 100 2 4 John Skelton 57 2 2 Thomas Simington 2 3 Timothy Scott 30 2 3 Isaac Scarborough 1 Robert Thompson 400 5 7 Wm. Townsend 76 2 3 Stephen Townsend 120 3 4 Widow Todd 16 1 1 John Vanhorn 125 3 7 Widow Vanhorn 125 1 2 Joseph White 6 1 Thomas Whitson 150 4 6 Geo. Wall, Jun. 100 3 4 Geo. Wall, Sen. 60 2 2 David Whitson 150 4 3 Ichabud Wilkinson 160 5 4 Samuel Wilson 120 3 4 Wm. White 130 2 3 Robert Walker 270 5 6 Isaiah Winter 82 2 4 John Wilson 150 2 3 John Wilkinson 62 1 3 John Wilkinson, Jun. 70 2 3 Joseph Wilkinson 1 1 Wm. Wilson 27 3 Geo. Wall Comp'y 133 John Megill 2 2 Richard Jobson 200 3 4 Jonathan Schofield 50 Jonathan Ingham, Sen. 65 3 3 John Coogler 59 2 3 SINGLE MEN Isaac Paxton Jos. Paxton Enoch Bye Derrich Tenbrook James Hammilton John Hamilton Joseph Hamilton Moses Pitcock Lewis Pownell Rheubin Pownell George Pownell John Pownell John Armitage Wm. Megill Jos. Wilkinson James Paxton David Kitchin John Kitchin And'w Collins Joseph Jobson Andrew Horner Thomas Lewis Joseph Price Ezekiel Hill Thomas Akins John Lews James Witacare Rob't Armstrong Jacob Doake Wm. Smith PERSONS PAYING DOUBLE TAX TAX BOOK or Duplicate of the Different Townships in the County of Bucks of Such Persons Over Fifty-three Years of Age, and not having Sons or any other Person performing Military Duty, &c, to pay a Double Tax for their Real and Personal Property, as the Law Directs. Amount of Tax Chrispin Blackfan, 91.13 .0 Humphry Baugham, 1 .5 .0 Thomas Dawson, 180.11 .0 Thomas Ellicott, 35 .0 .0 Isaac Pickering, 55.10 .0 Jane Scarborough, 50 .0 .0 Robert Thompson, 100 .0 .0 Wm. Pettit, 67 .0 .0 Additional Comments: ABBREVIATIONS B. S. - black smith f. - furnace or forge f. m. - fulling mill g. m. - grist mill h. m. - hemp mill m. - miller m. h. - malt house p. m. - paper mill s. f. - steel forge s. m. - saw mill s. q. - stone quarry t. k. - tavern keeper w. s. q. - whet-stone quarry Transcribed from: Pennsylvania Archives Third Series Printed under direction of FRANK REEDER Secretary of the Commonwealth Edited by WILLIAM HENRY EGLE, M. D VOL.XIII HARRISBURG: Wm. Stanley Ray, State Printer 1897 PROVINCIAL PAPERS: PROPRIETARY AND OTHER TAX LISTS OF THE COUNTY OF BUCKS FOR THE YEARS 1779, 1781, 1782, 1783, 1784, 1785, 1786 EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY EGLE, M. D WM. STANLEY RAY, STATE PRINTER OF PENNSYLVANIA 1897 PREFATORY NOTE The Editor calls attention to the fact that neither he or the Printer are responsible for the bad or changeable orthography of the surnames. The Transcripts are faithful copies of the originals, and not in a single instance has any change been made. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 8.8 Kb