"The dated tax records for this township which are here reproduced cover the following years: 18[16]-1822, 1824. These records are followed on the microfilm by a group of undated tax records. A few of the latter may have been written after the division of Donegal Township into East and West Donegal townships in 1838."
"The dated tax records for this township which are here reproduced cover the following years: 1751, 1756-1757, 1759, 1763, 1769-1773, 1775, 1777-1783, 1785-1794, 1796-1803, 1805-1808, 1810, 1812-1823, 1828, 1830-1831. 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: 1750-1751, 1754, 1756-1759, 1763, 1769-1773, 1775, 1777-1783, 1785-1793, 1797, 1799-1803, 1805-1808, 1811-18[12]...On this microfilm, a circle in the upper left-hand corner of a frame indicates the beginning of a new document."
"The tax records for [Earl] township which are here reproduced cover the following years: 18[13]-1822, 1826, 1834-1835, 1841. On this microfilm, a circle in the upper left-hand corner of a frame indicates the beginning of a new document."
"The tax records for [Elizabeth] township which are here reproduced cover the following years: 1757-1759, 1763, 1769-1773, 1775, 1777-1783, 1785, 1787-1789, 1792-1793, 1797-1798, 1800-1803, 1805-1814, 1816-1822, 1825. On this microfilm, a circle in the upper left-hand corner of a frame indicates the beginning of a new document."
U.S. Direct Tax of 1798: Tax Lists for the state of Pennsylvania Second Direct Tax Division (Lancaster, Chester, and Delaware Counties) Volumes 116-174: First and Second Assessment Districts (Lancaster County)
This microfilm reproduces volumes 116-174 of the direct tax. Each volume is preceded by the volume number. The following townships are represented in the following volume numbers:
Columbia (in Hempfield twp): 173
Conestoga: 116-118, 168, 169, 172, 173
Donegal: 120-122, 168-173
Elizabethtown (in Donegal twp): 171
Elizabeth: 124-125, 168-170
Hempfield: 127-128, 168, 169, 171-173
Lampeter: 131, 132, 134, 168-173
Lancaster Borough, NE Ward: 135, 168-170, 173
Lancaster Borough, NW Ward: 138, 168-170, 173
Lancaster Borough, SE Ward: 141, 168-170, 171, 173
Lancaster Borough, SW Ward: 144-147, 168-170, 173
Lancaster: 148, 168, 169
Leacock: 172
Manheim: 151-152, 168, 169, 171-173
Manor: 155, 168, 169, 171-173
Maytown (in Donegal twp): 172, 173
Mount Joy: 168-170, 173
Rapho: 160, 161, 168, 169, 171-173
Warwick: 164-165, 168, 169, 171-173
"Volume 122...contains only a slave list which is on the inside of the back cover."
The 1798 Tax lists the following information: Name of occupant, name of owner, dimensions or area of building, materials of which the building is built, number of stories, number of windows, number of lights, and outhouses.
Supply taxes were levied to help pay debts from the Revolutionary War, while the 18-penny tax included both a poll tax on freemen and property taxes assessed to back issuances of paper money.
Reel #422: Supply Tax for Dauphin County (1785-1789), Fayette County (1785-1789), Franklin County (1785-1789), and Huntingdon County (1788, 1789).
Reel #422 also includes Lancaster County's "15th of the 18 Pence Tax" for 1772.
Reel #423: Lancaster County tax lists, including the following:
"The tax records here reproduced for this township [including Columbia], prior to its division in 1818 into East Hempfield and West Hempfield townships, cover the following years: 1751, 1756-59, 1763, 1769-73, 1775-81, 1783, 1785-90, 1792-93, 1796-1803, 1805-07, 1809-11, 1813-1818, Undated. On this microfilm, a circle in the upper left-hand corner of a frame indicates the beginning of a new document."
"The tax records for this township which are here reproduced cover the following years: 1751, 1754, 1756-59, 1763, 1769-1773, 1776-1783, 1785-1790, 1792-1793, 1796-1803, 1805-1808, 1810-17, 1821, undated. On this microfilm, a circle in the upper left-hand corner of a frame indicates the beginning of a new document."
"Lancaster Township: The tax records for this township which are here reproduced cover the following years: 1750-51, 1756-59, 1763, 1769-73, 1776-77, 1779-83, 1785-92, 1797-1803, 1805-08, 1810-19, 1821-23, 1825, 1828. On this microfilm, a circle in the upper left-hand corner of a frame indicates the beginning of a new document. Tax records for Lancaster Borough and City appear on this and subsequent rolls of the microfilm."
"Lancaster Borough: The tax records here reproduced for this borough, prior to its incorporation as a city on March 20, 1818, cover the following years: 1750-51, 1754, 1756-59, 1763, 1769-73, 1775, 1777-83, 1785-93, 1797-1803, 1805-17. On this microfilm, a circle in the upper left-hand corner of a frame indicates the beginning of a new document."
Tax records for Lancaster City 1819-1836 appear on microfilm #17 of this series; Lancaster City 1837-1840, on reel 18.
"The tax records here reproduced for this borough, prior to its incorporation as a city on March 20, 1818, cover the following years: 1750-51, 1754, 1756-59, 1763, 1769-73, 1775, 1777-83, 1785-93, 1797-1803, 1805-17. On this microfilm, a circle in the upper left-hand corner of a frame indicates the beginning of a new document."
