Bucks County PA Archives - Taxlists .....Wright's Town 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 http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 September 21, 2008, 5:35 am WRIGHT'S TOWN TOWNSHIP Acres Horses Cattle Servants Thomas Atkinson 200 6 5 Thomas Allibone 86 4 4 Eber Addis 1 1 Wm. Bennet 45 Isaac Beal, B. S. 4 4 Joseph Ballance 2 1 James Banon 2 1 Wm. Chapman 45 John Chapman, Esq. 80 Wm. Clason 2 2 Benja. Chapman 3 1/2 1 Abraham Chapman 180 6 5 Joseph Chapman 300 5 10 Charles Chapman 1 4 Wm. Clark 1 1 Benja. Clark 1 Benja. Coursan 6 7 Wm. Chapman, g. m. 185 5 10 Benja. Chapman, Jun. 1 1 Richard Dunn 1 Thomas Cunningham 2 John Fellow 1 Thomas Green 1 1 Andrew Hunter 2 2 Tho's Allibone & Shep. Smith 100 John Hustin 1 1 Benja. Hampton 150 4 4 Joseph Hampton 100 3 5 Jesse Heston 50 John Holmes 2 1 Joseph Johnson's est. 100 5 6 Geo. Jewell, B. S. 2 3 Leonard Keisor 2 3/4 3 Samuel Kirk 196 3 4 Wm. Linton 130 2 4 Elizabeth Linton 130 1 1 John Lacey, Sen. 4 Gen'l John Lacey 10 John Martin, Potter's est. 9 2 3 Nathaniel McKinstry 2 2 Isachar Morrise, B. S. 1 2 George Newburn 58 Wm. Newman's estate 102 4 9 David Nesbitt 26 Richard Parsons' est. 196 3 5 Wm. Pattin 1 John Rose 25 3 3 Joseph Sacket, Esq. 391 9 24 1 James Swiney 2 John Stogdill's est 108 5 8 Stephen Smith 200 5 6 Robert Smith 120 6 9 Mary Smith 1 2 John Smith 161 3 3 Wm. Thompson 405 1 5 Joseph Tombleson 119 5 6 Sarah Twining 1 1 John Terry, Sen 84 3 4 Joseph Tombleson 2 4 2 John Terry, Jun. 50 2 2 Robert Verree 20 Garrat Vansant 184 2 8 Cornelious Vansant 184 4 7 Geo. Wisnor 1 Isaac Wilson 60 2 2 Ralph Williamson, Cap't. 1 1 John Wilkinson, Esq. 33 4 9 John Wilkinson, Ju., decas'd, est. 26 Thomas West 2 4 John Watson, g. m., s. m. 227 4 8 Mary White 100 2 6 John Warner 275 6 13 Thomas Warner 160 3 7 SINGLE MEN John Sample Michael Shannon Michael Keison Joseph Terry David Warner James Rose John Vanity Rob't Chapman 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 Abram Chapman, 26 .6 .0 John Holmes, 1 .5 .0 David Nisbitt, 7 .8 .0 Joseph Sackett, 50.14 .0 Robert Smith, 39.10 .0 Joseph Tombleson, 33 .8 .0 John Terry, 12 .2 .0 Robert Verrice, 9.12 .0 Garret Vansant, 20 .0 .0 Cornelious Vansant, 20 .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.net/pafiles/ File size: 5.7 Kb