"The tax records for this township which are here reproduced cover the following years: 1750, 1754, 1756-1759, 1763, 1769-1773, 1775-1783, 1785-1794, 1797, 1799-1803, 1805-1811, 1813-1822, 1824, 1834."
"This microfilm is an addendum to the Lancaster County Tax Records project of 1971 and 1977. The records on this film were donated to the Lancaster County Historical Society in January 1981. They had been kept in the basement of Conestoga View Hospital which was used by the Lancaster County government as a storage facility for records. The tax records were water damaged and subsequently discarded at an unknown point in time. A private citizen discoverd and salvaged the items from a trash heap, and donated them to the Historical Society. The items show extensive damaged [sic] by water, mold, and vermin. Most pages are frayed and sections unreadable."
Bart Twp. 1833-37, 1841, 1843-45.
Brecknock Twp. 1833
Caernarvon Twp. 1844
Cocalico Twp. 1823, 1829
Conestoga Twp. 1827, 1831
Manheim Twp. 1822-23 (Includes List of Poor Children)
"The date [sic] tax records for this township which are here reproduced cover the following years: 1750-1751, 1754, 1756-1759, 1763, 1769-1770, 1772-1773, 1775-1783, 1785-1793, 1799-1803, 1805-1823, 1825-1832, 1834, 1836, 1838-1839, 1841-1846. These records are followed on the microfilm by a group of undated tax records for this township."
"The dated tax records here reproduced for this township, prior to its division in 1838 into East Cocalico, West Cocalico, and Ephrata townships, cover the following years: 1751, 1756-1759, 1763, 1769-1773, 1775, 1777-1783, 1785-1789, 1791-1793, 1796-1803, 1805-[1808]"
Cocalico taxes for 1809-1838 continue on the next microfilm reel, #5.
Microfilm. Cocalico, 838 frames; East Cocalico, 107 frames; West Cocalico, 133 frames. Labeled as "Pos. 5".
Series
Lancaster County Pa. Tax Records, 1748-1855.
Notes
"The dated tax records here reproduced for this township, prior to its division in 1838 into East Cocalico, West Cocalico, and Ephrata townships, cover the following years: 1808-1814, 1816-1822, 1824-1827, 1830, 1832-1836, 1838. These records are followed on the microfilm by a group of undated tax records for this township.
The records for East and West Cocalico follow the records for Cocalico.
The dated tax records for this township which are here reproduced cover the following years: 1751, 1756-1759, 1763, 1769-1773, 1775, 1777-1783, 1785-1788, 1790-1793, 1797-1798, 1800-1803, 1805-1814, 1817-1822, 1824-1827, 1829-1833, 1835, 1837, 1839-1846. These records are followed on the microfilm by a group of undated tax records for this township."
"The tax records for this township which are here reproduced cover the following years: 1751, 1754, 1756-1757, 1759, 1769-1773, 1775-1783, 1785, 1787-1793, 1797-1803, 1806-1810, 1812, 1815-1826, 1828-1829, 1833-1843, 1845, 1855. Many of the later records (dataing from 1823 and after) appear to have sustained water damage."
"This microfilm reproduces original document in the custody of the Lancaster County Historical Society [LancasterHistory.Org]."
Harrisburg, Pa. : Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Date of Publication
1979.
Physical Description
ix, 305 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
This book was derived from the author's PhD thesis, "Conestoga Crossroads: The Rise of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1730-1789", call number 974.815 LACI W876t.
LCHS copy inscribed by author.
"Notes and bibliographical essay": p. 257-296.
Summary
PART ONE- Concentrates on the political and administrative history of Lancaster as a borough. PART TWO- Discusses the town's economic structure and it's role as a regional marketing center and "western emporium " including a description of the structure of inland trade. PART THREE- Focuses on the economic class structure of the community, on the characteristics of it's religious life, on the social and cultural interaction between "Dutchmen" and "Engellanders" and on the role of the town as an intellectual center.