The colonists in America continued to use British monetary units, the pound, shilling and pence, |
where one pound sterling £1 = 20s and 1s = 12d (pence). Also, each colony printed its own notes |
and currency, co-existing in general circulation with both British sterling and Spanish dollars |
(reales, 'pieces of eight'). Some of the exchange rates reported in the later colonial period were |
1 Spanish dollar (eight 'pieces of eight') = 4s 6d (54d) British = 7s 6d (90d) Pennsylvania, and |
1 pound sterling £1 (240d) British = £1 13s 4d (400d) Pennsylvania colonial pounds [Note 13]. |
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Daniel McAninch, Cumberland County, Peters Township, 1770 |
(1770) Cumberland County: Daniel McNi(n/s)ch (Mc(A)ninch? McNisah?) appears on the list |
of Peters Township, list of "Peters Freemen 1770": “McNisch (sic), Daniel" "Peters Rates 1770" |
"P(ers?) Tax" 15 "County Tax" 9 (prob. 15d, 9d, in pence?). "Freeman" meant a single, free man |
(not an indentured servant, nor slave), at least 21 years of age, not a "landholder" nor "freeholder" |
(whereas Property Taxes were assessed on acreage, horses, cows, etc.) [Notes 10, 10.a, 10.f, 12]. |
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(1771) Bedford County, set off 9 Mar. 1771 from Cumberland County, with all of south-western |
Pennsylvania (present-day Westmoreland, Allegheny, Armstrong, and other counties). [7, p.30] |
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(1771) The six 'original townships' transferred into Bedford County were [Notes 8, 14, 15] |
Ayr Township (created 1754) (now part of present-day Fulton County, adjacent to Franklin Co.) |
Barree (created 1767) (now northern half of Blair Co. and western two-thirds of Huntingdon Co.) |
Bedford Twp. (1767) (now the western half of Bedford County and southern half of Blair County) |
Colerain (1767) (now western side of Fulton Co. and nearly the whole eastern half of Bedford Co.) |
Cumberland (Valley) Twp. (1767) (occupied the southwest corner of present-day Bedford Co.) |
Dublin (1767) (now the northeast corner of Fulton County and eastern third of Huntingdon Co.) |
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(1772) York County, runaway servants Daniel M'Anitinie (sic) and James M'Cormick.[Note 16]. |
Although Peters Township is close to York County, it is very unlikely that Daniel, a "freeman" in |
1770, would become an (indentured) servant the next year, and then escape, becoming a fugitive. |
The only clue is the spelling in the newspaper; the printer set the type from some earlier source, |
not available today. The "M'Anitinie", "McAnitinie", and "MacAnitinie" spellings are not found |
anywhere else in colonial Pennsylvania. The name "McAintiear" does appear in York County tax |
records [Note 17]. Also, there are many other names that, when spoken in rough gaelic, could be |
mis-transcribed with the ‘an’, ‘t’ and/or ‘ie’ sounds, including McAnally, McCantish, McAnulty, |
McCarthy, McCartney, McClatchey, McCutcheon, McKnightley, McLachlen, Mc(E/I)ntire . . . |
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Daniel McAninch 1770s to 1790, Pennsylvania Copyright 2019, Frank McAninch |
McAninch Family History Newsletter v.XXVII n.1 June 2019 p.2019-05 |
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