[11]

"Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801" database

(con’t)

a. 1785, McAnitch (sic) (Town) Rye, (County) Cumberland, Archive Rollname: 326

    Property Tax: "Acres" "100" "McAnitch" (sic, 'tch') "--" (no given name)

    "Rye Rates 1785" "20" "2 horses" (tax) "10" "Total" (tax) "30" (eighth entry on page)

    Note: same tax data, another transcription, not the same image as 1785 above [10.d]

b. 1785, McAninch (sic) (Town) Rye, (County) Cumberland, Archive Rollname: 325

    "State Tax" "McAninch" (no first name) “Rye 1785" "-" "3" "9" (first column empty,

     three columns could be ‘pounds’ ‘shillings’ ‘pence’?) (twentieth name on the list)

c. 1786, McAninch (sic) (Town) Rye, (County) Cumberland, Archive Rollname: 326

    Property Tax: "Acres" "100" "McAninch" (sic, correct) "--" (no given name)

    "Rye Rates 1786" "20" "2 horses" (tax) "10" "Total" (tax) "30" (eighth entry on page)

[12]

"18th Century Tax (General Information)" in Pennsylvania, four taxable categories:

"landholder" – resident, held land by lease or deed, also known as "freeholder"

"inmate" or taxpaying renter – married or widowed, landless (contract labor)

"freeman" – single, free man at least 21 years of age, and not a "landholder", had to

 be out of servitude or apprenticeship at least 6 months at the time of tax collection.

"non-resident" - non-resident landowner, owner of unseated (unoccupied) land

https://www.chesco.org/DocumentCenter/View/5847/18th-Century-Tax?bidId=

[13]

Colonial Currency / A Project of the Robert H. Gore, Jr. Numismatic Endowment /

University of Notre Dame, Department of Special Collections, 102 Hesburgh Library,

Notre Dame, IN 46556, Louis Jordan, 574-631-5636  https://coins.nd.edu/ColCurrency

a. Currency, The Comparative Value of Money between Britain and the Colonies

    https://coins.nd.edu/ColCurrency/CurrencyIntros/CurrencyIntro.html

b. Early American currency  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_American_currency

    Pennsylvania (colonial) pound  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_pound

    Spanish dollar (and 'pieces of eight')  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_dollar

[14]

Bedford County, original townships  http://motherbedford.com/Discovery7.htm

and Old Bedford County Townships  http://www.pagenweb.org/~somerset/bedford.htm

[15]

"List of townships in Pennsylvania" tabulation of townships by present-day counties

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_townships_in_Pennsylvania

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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.2019-13

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