Prepared by the Historical Records Survey, Division of Professional and Service Projects, Work Projects Administration, edited by Eugene Maur Braderman.
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.
Historical papers and addresses / Lebanon County Historical Society ; v. 2, no. 11
Contents
The Pennsylvania-German and his English and Scotch-Irish neighbors / By M.D. Learned -- The educational works of Lebanon County / By H.U. Roop -- Jacob Weidle : a biographical sketch of Hon. Jacob Weidel, Reading, Pa. -- In memoriam-William Coleman Freeman.
Also in: Lebanon County Historical Society papers, v. I, no. 16. Call no.: 974.819 - L441, v. I, no. 16.
Includes information on Dr. Henry William Stoy ; Dr. George Reidenaur ; John Bickel Mish ; Dr. Benjamin Phreaner ; Dr. George Lineaweaver ; Dr. Henry Schneck ; Dr. Philip Greth Smith; Dr. Nathaniel Ranch ; Dr. John W. Gloninger.