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Other Title:

Tenth eighteen penny provincial tax (1767) on the inhabitants of the city and county of Philadelphia, Pa.

Subjects:

Penn, Thomas, 1702-1775.
Penn, Richard, 1706-1771.
Taxation -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Lists.
Property tax -- Pennsylvania.
Property tax.
Taxation.
Philadelphia County (Pa.) -- History -- 18th century.
Philadelphia County (Pa.) -- Politics and government.
Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Form/Genre:

Registers (lists)
Government records.
Tax records.
Manuscripts, American.
Lists.

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.
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.
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.
Binding: Modern cloth, with leather spine label for the title Philadelphia tax record.
Origin: Written in Philadelphia in 1767.

Finding Aid/Index:

Typescript of unpublished name index available at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.

Penn Provenance:

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

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1261

OCLC:

155963054