County Tax Accounts (PA) 1781-1808

About This Collection

A record of county tax accounts. Information about each county includes detailed quotas of taxes owed by each county, listing of effective supplies and the amount of taxes paid in each county. Also documented within the county records are the names of various taxpayers, the amount of land they held and the taxes paid upon it, the date taxes were received and the amount still owed. Records document carriage, land, funding, excise, and supply taxes paid by each county. Images are arranged alphabetically by county. Counties are indexed within a separate ledger with page numbers, corresponding to a larger account book, listed to right of each county. This collection is part of the Office of the Comptroller General which was created in 1782.