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Title

City of Philadelphia Constables returns to Assessors for 1762, 1770, and 1775

Call number

RG96.1: TX 8
(Philadelphia, Philadelphia City Archives)

Alternate identifiers

• local_identifier: Constables Records: Record Group 96

Publisher

Philadelphia City Archives

Language

Primary language: English.

Origin

Date

1762/1775

Place

United States

Summary

Volume listing households in City of Philadelphia in geographical order. Includes the following wards: 1762 – Walnut; 1770 -- High, and Mulberry (east part); 1775 -- Middle, and Dock (south part). Entries record householder's name, occupation, name of landlord, amount of rent, name of ground rent owner, amount of ground rent, inmates, servants, number and age of children, and number and age of enslaved people at a residence.

Subjects topical

• Taxation--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Lists
• Economy
• Lived Experience

Genres

• Government Records
• Registers (lists)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — A true and exact acount of householders and the residenters in Wallnut Ward taken October the 15 1762 by Saml Mattews Constable of said Ward
• fol. 6r — Philad[elphi]a October 25 1770: Duplicate of High Street Ward
• fol. 18r — East Mulberry Ward, October 25th 1770
• fol. 47r — Middle Ward 1775
• fol. 71r — South Ward of Dock 1775