PA Tax Lists ? PA Archives 3rd Series, Volumes XI-XXII By: Retrospect Publishing ISBN#1929356242. Were your ancestors born in Pennsylvania, but you do not have a clue where? This 12 volume collection of Tax Lists from the Third Series may hold a clue as to which county & township your ancestor resided in during the 1760s to the early 1790s. The years and type of tax vary from county to county. Tax payers are listed by township and often the lists include the number of acres, horses and cattle owned. Below is a list of counties and tax years. Please note that the counties below were ?mother? counties to the present day counties. For example, Somerset County was formed from Bedford County in 1795, therefore, ancestors prior to 1795 would be found in Bedford County.) Chester Co (Vol XI & XII); 1765-1766, 1768-1769, 1771, 1774, 1779-1781, 1785; Bucks Co (Vol XIII: 1779, 1781-1787; Philadelphia Co & City (Vol XIV-XVI): 1769, 1774, 1779-1783; Lancaster Co (Vol XVII): 1771-1773, 1779, 1782; Berks Co (Vol XVIII): 1767, 1768, 1779-1781, 1784-1785; Northampton & Northumberland Counties (Vol XIX): Northampton 1772, 1785-1786, 1788; Northumberland 1778-1787; Cumberland Co (Vol XX): 1778-1782, 1785; York Co (Vol XXI): 1779-1783; Western Frontier Cos (Vol XXII): Bedford 1773-76, 1779, 1783-1784; Huntingdon 1788; Westmoreland 1783, 1786; Fayette 1785-1786; Allegheny 1791; Washington 1781. This CD contains the images of the original pages along with a full text search capability for the Third Series, Vol. XI thru XXII ? Pennsylvania Tax List. Includes maps. THIS IS A CD -- NOT A BOOK. 2003, 8.5" X 11", Softbound 10021 pages In-Stock $98.95
Records From the Past-Funeral Home Records, Fairchance, PA, Volume I By: Kathryn Cooley Miller ISBN#1558562532. 20th century funeral home records for R. L. Sharp home started in 1913 and then merged with Wagner in the forties - 1913-1940 (pages 1-139) and J. C. Williams records, 1893-1897 (pages 168-174). Includes name of deceased, birth year, death date, name of parents, cemetery. Volumes are numbered consecutively. Index. 1997, 8.5" X 11", Softbound 176 pages In-Stock $16.00
Records From the Past-Funeral Home Records, Fairchance, PA, Volume II By: Kathryn Cooley Miller ISBN#1558563385. 20th century funeral home records include name of deceased, birth year, death date, name of parents, cemetery. Volumes are numbered consecutively. Volume II includes R.L. Sharp Funeral Home, 1941-1948 (pages 140-173), Robert D. Wagner(1948-1951), Wagner-Cooley (1951-1966), J.W. Goldsboro (1947-1970), pages 140-293 plus index. 2000, 8.5" X 11", Softbound 182 pages In-Stock $17.00
Records From the Past-Funeral Home Records, Fairchance, PA, Volume III By: Kathryn Cooley Miller ISBN#1558563946. 20th century funeral home records include name of deceased, birth year, death date, name of parents, cemetery. Volumes are numbered consecutively. There are two sections in Volume III: The first section continues from page 323 to 512 (including index). The second section starts at page 1 and ends with the index. Includes: Wagner-Cooley (1966-1982), pp 323-372; Lescar-Markutsa (1982-1989), pp 373-393; J.W. Goldsboro (1971-1987), pp 394-487 plus index and Dean C. Whitmarsh (1989-1999), pages 1-69 plus index for a total of 274pp. Don?t let the late dates discourage you from purchasing these records. Progenitors are often mentioned plus other relationships. Index. 2001, 8.5" X 11", Softbound 274 pages In-Stock $25.00
Scans of Township Warrantee Maps of Fayette County, PA By: Ancestor Tracks CD-518. This CD provides copies of the large warrantee maps of Fayette County in the Early Landowners of Pennsylvania: Atlas of Township Warrantee Maps of Fayette Co., PA. This will allow you to see each Warrantee Map in the greatest of detail, thereby ensuring that you know everything you need to know about the tract belonging to your ancestor! No coordinates or editing marks have been added to these original maps located in the Pennsylvania Archives in Harrisburg, but every tract can be seen in great detail. THIS IS A CD-NOT A BOOK. 2005, 8.5" X 11", Softbound 27 pages In-Stock $20.00
Some Fayette County, Pennsylvania Cemeteries By: Kathryn Cooley Miller ISBN#1558562222. Tombstone inscriptions for cemeteries in all...Fairchance: Maple Grove, White Rock, St. Joseph's; Brownfield: Mountain View; Smithfield: Mt. Moriah, Brownfield, IOOF; York Run: Tent Church; Old Frame: Oak Hill Baptist; Pt. Marion: Mt. Moriah Pres.; Uniontown: St. John's; Searights: Grace Episcopal; Rubles Mill: Woodbridge Rubles; White House: Springhill Furnace; Masontown: Greendale, Jacob's Lutheran (Correcton: The correct name for this cemetery is Masontown Cemetery which includes the Cumberland Cemetery), Fairview, Ashbel; New Geneva: Stone Church, Cedar Grove; Morris Crossroads: Oak Grove, Brick Church; Haydentown: Miller-Sisler, Christian Church, Jennings, Lowe, Price, and Swaney cemeteries. Surname index for easy access to these complete inscriptions. 1996, 8.5" X 11", Softbound 239 pages In-Stock $19.95
Tenmile Country and Its Pioneer Families By: Howard L. Lecky ISBN#1558563431. Reprint. This book is loaded with genealogical info on early families in present day Greene, Fayette, Washington, Westmoreland and nearby counties of present day Southwestern Pennsylvania, plus many from Northern Virginia, present day West Virginia and some from Western Maryland and Eastern Ohio who settled these areas in the mid to late 1700s. Much of the history includes family migrations from Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, etc. plus French and Indian and American Revolutionary War participants. It is a great publication for any one researching this part of our early growing country when it was claimed by both Pennsylvania and Virginia. After 1750 the Tenmile Country became a desired place of settlement or stopover point for the huge migration of Scotch-Irish, to a lesser extent, British, colonists who extended American settlement beyond the Alleghenies. Migration to the Monongahela took place over three main routes: along the National Pike via Winchester, Virginia; through the Shenandoah Valley to the head of the Cheat River and from there to the Monongahela; and along the Lincoln Highway to Ligonier, Pennsylvania and thence along Jacob?s Creek to the Monongahela. From the time of the French and Indian War to the end of the 18th century, the tributaries of the Tenmile Creek would be inundated by pioneers?many of them German or Scotch Irish, some of them the spillovers from the great migration into Kentucky, and still other travelers and immigrants who passed through Baltimore enroute to one of the great migration trails. This book was originally published as a series of newspaper articles by Mr. Leckey before being consolidated as a book in 1950 and then reprinted with with an every-name index under the auspices of the Greene County Historical Society in 1977. The work commences with a historical overview of settlement in the Tenmile Country, and it concludes with a new surname index by Closson Press to replace the very inaccurate every-name index. There are well over 500 family histories of varying lengths, which delineate the lineages of the many families who migrated into this area. The genealogies, which are arranged according to place of settlement, are periodically embellished with rosters of one sort or another, maps, facsimiles, and illustrations. The genealogical sketches cover or touch on more than 2,000 main families who settled in the Upper Monongahela during the final third of the eighteenth or first quarter of the nineteenth century. This is definitely a great starting point for genealogical research in southwestern Pennsylvania. Back by popular demand. 1993, 6" X 9", Hardbound 677 pages In-Stock $39.00
The Cumberland Road (A History of the National Road) By: Reed B. Day ISBN#1558562273. As America entered the 19th century, the young nation faced one of its first challenges: how to link the people and cities along the Eastern seaboard to the frontier west of the Allegheny Mountains. Met by ingenuity and invention, this challenge gave birth to the National Road, America's first interstate highway, and the only one financed by federal funds. The Cumberland Road, as it was also called, acquired a history through its relatively short heyday that became truly national in scale, and truly American in character. From early Indian trails to its construction and "golden era," followed by it reinvention as modern US Route 40, the National Road has witnessed the unfolding of the Westward Movement and the attendant social, cultural, political, technological, and demographic changes that shaped America from pre-colonial times through the Civil War, the industrial revolution, and the modern era. The Cumberland Road captures this story and re-tells it as a moment in history when the National Road, vulnerable to neglect and continuing decay, has been declared a State Heritage Park by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The National Road Heritage Park of Pennsylvania, a regional "linear" park, encompasses landmarks, structures and communities located on the Road or within the National Road corridor in Fayette, Somerset, and Washington Counties. First printing 1996. 2002, 6" X 9", Softbound 43 pages In-Stock $8.95
Third Series, Vol. XXII - Western Frontier Counties Tax List By: Retrospect Publishing ISBN#1929356234. This CD contains the images of the original pages along with a full text search capability for the following books: Pennsylvania Archives Third Series Vol. XXII - Provincial Papers: Returns of Taxables for the counties of Bedford (1773-76, 1779, 1783-1784), Huntingdon (1788), Westmoreland (1783, 1786), Fayette (1785 & 1786), Allegheny (1791), Washington (1781), and census of Bedford (1784), & Westmoreland (1783) (Wm. H. Egle; Commonwealth of PA; 1898). Volume XXII of the Third Series contains various tax lists for the western frontier counties of Bedford (the present day counties of Clearfield, Cambria, Blair, Centre, Huntingdon, Fulton & Somerset were part of Bedford during some or all of the tax periods), Huntingdon (the present day counties of Cambria, Blair & Clearfield were part of Huntingdon during 1788), Fayette, Westmoreland (the present day counties Armstrong & Indiana were part of Westmoreland during the tax period), Allegheny (the present day counties of of Erie, Butler, Mercer, Crawford, Lawrence, Beaver, Armstrong, Venango, & Warren were part of Allegheny during 1791), and Washington (the present day counties of Greene & Beaver were part of Washington during 1781). Tax payers are listed by township and typically the number of acres, horses, and cattle. See the list of counties above for specific tax years. The Land Return Tax of 1784 for Bedford Co. and 1783 for Westmoreland Co. are of particular interest. These tax lists itemize the acres per taxable, along with the number of white and black inhabitants. The result is a complete county census for Westmoreland and Bedford. Special Requirements: CD-ROM drive. Windows 95 through XP, a 486 or higher IBM PC or compatible, 16MB of RAM, 4MB hard drive and VGA display, 256 colors. Not compatible with network software. THIS IS A CD -- NOT A BOOK. 2003, 8.5" X 11", Softbound 796 pages In-Stock $19.95
Tombstone Inscriptions of Mt. Washington Cemetery, Perryopolis, Fayette County, PA with Brief History By: Joan Rodgers Clem Lyons ISBN 978-1-55856-440-4. Row-by-row (by section) enumeration of tombstone inscriptions, section map of cemetery to make finding graves easy not to mention an excellent every name index. Close to 3,000 burials listed. First tombstone dated 1870. Laminated. 2005, 8.5" X 11", Softbound 85 pages In-Stock $15.00
Vance-Brownfield Funeral Home Records By: Kathryn Cooley Miller ISBN#1558563369. This funeral home is located on Main Street in Smithfield, Pennsylvania. The records begin in 1892 and go through 1981. Type of information included: name of deceased, birth and death, name of parents and/or spouse, and burial place. Index. 2001, 8.5" X 11", Softbound 150 pages In-Stock $14.00
Westmoreland County in the American Revolution By: Paul W. Myers ISBN#1558560017. Provides an extensive research aid for genealogists and military historians whose roots are found in Old Westmoreland County, PA. Westmoreland County was the 11th county organized by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, separated from its parent county of Bedford on February 26, 1773. Westmoreland was the first transmontane county to be organized by Pennsylvania west of Laurel Hill, and included within its rather vague boundaries all of the present-day counties of Westmoreland, Fayette, Greene, Washington, and the southern portions of Beaver, Allegheny, Armstrong and Indiana. The Commonwealth of Virginia also claimed much of the area, and had established the rival counties of Ohio, Yohogania, and Monongalia. Alphabetical list of 2,400 known militia men along with varying bits of information about each; a listing of 3,300 frontier rangers; a roster of 684 Westmoreland County men who enlisted in the Eighth Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line...and more! Indexed when not included in alphabetical list. 1989, 8.5" X 11", Softbound 263 pages In-Stock $24.00
