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Title

The particulars of each person's estate, as appears by the township and ward assessors' returns as follows

Authors

• Philadelphia County (Pa.)

Call number

Ms. Codex 1261
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1545601
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1545601

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

1767

Place

Philadelphia

Summary

Records of individual tax assessments for Philadelphia County for 1767, arranged by township or ward. A table of contents at the beginning of the manuscript lists the townships and wards (f. i recto). Entries list real property, livestock, and financial debts and assets, as well as often listing occupations and occasionally noting number of children. Slaves and servants are listed in some entries. A few women, mostly widows, have their own entries. An assessment of the property of Thomas and Richard Penn, proprietors of Pennsylvania, follows the ward and township entries (f. 251r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1r); additional title supplied by cataloger based on similar lists at other repositories.
   

Extent

279 leaves : 375 x 245 mm. bound to 385 x 257 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 277 + i; [i, 1], 2-251, [25 blank, ruled leaves]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. The flyleaf before the manuscript is detached and laid in.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern cloth, with leather spine label for the title Philadelphia tax record.

Layout

2 columns of entries, each divided into 5 columns for a rough whole-number assessment; name, itemized property, and notes; and pounds, shillings, and pence of itemized property and total assessment. Verticals and divisions between entries ruled in red ink.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Transferred from the library of Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary, 1960.
   

Subjects topical

• Taxation--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Lists
• Property tax--Pennsylvania

Genres

• Registers (lists)
• Government records
• Tax records
• Manuscripts, American--18th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Frankford and New Hanover Twp., 1 recto
• fol. 7v — Douglas Twp., 7 verso
• fol. 11v — Limerick Twp., 11 verso
• fol. 15v — Frederick Twp., 15 verso
• fol. 18v — Upper Hanover Twp., 18 verso
• fol. 23r — Marlborough Twp., 23 recto
• fol. 25v — Lower Salford Twp., 25 verso
• fol. 28r — Upper Salford Twp., 28 recto
• fol. 31r — Perkiomen and Skipacke Twp. 31 recto
• fol. 34v — Worcester Twp., 34 verso
• fol. 38v — Norriton Twp., 38 verso
• fol. 42r — Providence Twp., 42 recto
• fol. 49r — Lower Dublin Twp., 49 recto
• fol. 54r — Bibury Twp., 54 recto
• fol. 56v — Hattfield Twp., 56 verso
• fol. 59r — Roxborough Twp., 59 recto
• fol. 61v — Upper Dublin Twp., 61 verso
• fol. 65r — Blockley Twp., 65 recto
• fol. 68v — Gwinedd Twp., 68 verso
• fol. 72v — Towamencin Twp., 72 verso
• fol. 75v — Franconia Twp., 75 verso
• fol. 78r — Horsham Twp., 78 recto
• fol. 81v — Whitpain Twp., 81 verso
• fol. 85r — Montgomery Twp., 85 verso
• fol. 87v — Bristol Twp.. 87 verso
• fol. 90v — Oxford Twp., 90 verso
• fol. 93v — Abington Twp., 93 verso
• fol. 97v — Manor of Moorland, 97 verso
• fol. 104r — White Marsh Twp., 104 recto
• fol. 108r — Plymouth Twp., 108 recto
• fol. 110r — Springfield Twp., 110 recto
• fol. 112r — Creesham Twp., 112 recto
• fol. 115v — Germantown Twp., 115 verso
• fol. 123v — Cheltenham Twp., 123 verso
• fol. 125v — Lower Merion Twp., 125 verso
• fol. 130v — Upper Merion Twp., 130 verso
• fol. 133v — Moyamencin Twp., 133 verso
• fol. 135r — Parsyank Twp., 135 recto
• fol. 137r — Kingssessin Twp., 137 recto
• fol. 139v — Northern Liberties West Part, 139 verso
• fol. 146r — Northern Liberties East Part, 146 recto
• fol. 156r — Southwark, 156 recto
• fol. 168r — City, Middle Ward, 168 recto
• fol. 177v — City, Walnut Ward, 177 verso
• fol. 181r — City, Chesnut Ward, 181 recto
• fol. 184v — City, High Street Ward, 184 verso
• fol. 189v — City, Mulberry Ward, 189 verso
• fol. 210v — City, Lower Delaware Ward, 210 verso
• fol. 215r — City, North Ward, 215 recto
• fol. 226r — City, South Ward, 226 recto
• fol. 231r — City, Dock Ward, 231 recto
• fol. 246r — City, Upper Delaware Ward, 246 recto
• fol. 251r — Propriators, 251 recto