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Manuscript Group 4
COUNTY RECORDS COLLECTION
1767-1918
23.5 cu. ft.

Various records of county, township, and municipal governments are contained in Manuscript Group 4.

ALLEGHENY COUNTY

Elizabeth Township (5th District)

Justice of the Peace Docket of Joseph Beckett, 1802-1811. (1 volume) {#4m.1}
Justice of the Peace Docket of Joseph Becket (1813-1819) and Garrett Wall (1823-1837), 1813-1819, 1823-1837. (1 volume) {#4m.2}

BERKS COUNTY

Albany Township

County, State and Militia Tax Lists, Collector's Book, 1872. (1 volume) {#4m.3}

Alscase Township

Tax List of Inhabitants, 1816. (1 volume) {#4m.4}

Dockets, 1806-1828. (5 volumes) {#4m.5}

Township Election Returns, Expense and Wage Book, 1846-1907. (1 volume) {#4m.6}

BRADFORD COUNTY

Election Returns, 1826, 1834. (2 items) {#4m.7}

Justices of the Peace, Transcripts of Legal Proceedings, 1837-1840. (38 items) {#4m.8}

Lucy Sherman's Affidavit and Receipt to County Commissioners, 1831. (1 item) {#4m.9}

Oaths of Assessors, 1813, 1814. (16 items) {#4m.10}

Tuscarora Township

Road Transcript, 1837. (1 item) {#4m.11}

CUMBERLAND COUNTY

Tax Lists, Assessor's Duplicates, 1825. (8 volumes) {#4m.12}

DAUPHIN COUNTY

County Commissioner's Records

Poor House Order Book (No. 2), 1833-1847. (1 volume) {#4m.13}
Record Book of Returns of School Children, 1832-1841. (1 volume) {#4m.14}

Court of Common Pleas, Petition of the Inhabitants of Lykens, Mifflin and Upper Paxton Township, undated & Harrisburg, Joint Resolutions (file of Common Council, Nos. 967 and 969), 1888. (1 folder) {#4m.15}

Halifax Borough

Tax Record for Dauphin County, 1879. (1 volume) {#4m.16}

Harrisburg

Burgess Case Docket Book, 1796-1830. (1 volume) {#4m.17}
Recorder's Book, 1797-1809. (1 volume) {#4m.18}

Hummelstown

Justice of the Peace Docket Book, 1797-1801. (1 volume) {#4m.19}

Middletown

Road Tax Auditors, ca.1792-1915. (1 volume) {#4m.20}

Wayne Township

Voter's Registry List, 1907. (1 folder) {#4m.21}

FAYETTE COUNTY

Commissioner's Receipt, 1808. (1 item) {#4m.22}

FRANKLIN COUNTY

Oaths of Officers, 1829-1841. (1 volume) {#4m.23}

Tax and Exoneration Lists

Antrim Township
- County Levies, Assessor's Duplicate, 1794, 1797-1832. (35 volumes) {#4m.24}
- County Levies, Assessor's Returns, 1801, 1811. (2 volumes) {#4m.25}
- County Levies, State and Personal Property Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1833-1847. (15 volumes) {#4m.26}
- Exonerations, 1841-1843. (1 volume) {#4m.27}
- State Personal Property Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1831. (1 folder) {#4m.28}
Fannett Township
- County Levies, Assessor's Duplicate, 1801-1830. (29 volumes) {#4m.29}

County Levies, State and Personal Property Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1831-1847. (16 volumes) {#4m.30}
County Levies, Summary Transcripts for Court Appeals, 1794, 1797-1799. (4 volumes) {#4m.31}
State and Personal Property Tax, Assessor's Return, 1842. (1 volume) {#4m.32}

Franklin Township
- County Levies, Assessor's Duplicate, 1794-1830. (29 volumes) {#4m.33}

County Levies, State and Personal Property Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1831, 1832. (2 volumes) {#4m.34}
State and Personal Property Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1833-1847. (14 volumes) {#4m.35}
State and Personal Property Tax, Assessor's Return, 1834, 1842. (2 volumes) {#4m.36}
State Tax, Chambersburg Borough, 1805. (1 volume) {#4m.37}

Greene Township
- County Levies, State and Personal Property Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1831-1847. (16 volumes) {#4m.38}
- County Levies, State and Personal Property Tax, Valuation Only, Assessor's Return, 1842. (1 volume) {#4m.39}
- County Levies, State Tax, Assessor's Duplicate for Court Appeal, 1799. (1 volume) {#4m.40}
- County Levies, State Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1801-1830. (29 volumes) {#4m.41}
- County Levies, State Tax, Assessor's Return, Tax Listed, 1801. (1 volume) {#4m.42}
Guilford Township
- County Levies, Occupation List, 1835. (1 volume) {#4m.43}
- County Levies, State and Personal Property Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1831-1847. (16 volumes) {#4m.44}
- County Levies, State and Personal Property Tax, Valuation Only, 1842. (1 volume) {#4m.45}
- County Levies, State Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1801-1830. (27 volumes) {#4m.46}
- County Levies, State Tax, Summary Transcript for Court of Appeals, Duplicate, 1796, 1798. (2 volumes) {#4m.47}
- County Levies, State Tax, Valuation Only, Assessor's Duplicate, 1802. (1 volume) {#4m.48}
Hamilton Township
- County Levies, State Tax, Summary Transcript for Court Appeal, 1794. (1 volume) {#4m.49}
- County Levies, State Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1801-1830. (30 volumes) {#4m.50}
- County Levies, State and Personal Property Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1831-1847. (16 folders) {#4m.51}
- County Levies, State and Personal Property Tax (No Tax Listed), Assessor's Return, undated. (1 volume) {#4m.52}
Letterkenny Township
- County Levies, State Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1801-1832. (31 volumes) {#4m.53}
- County Levies, State Tax, Summary Transcript for Court Appeals, 1797, 1798. (2 volumes) {#4m.54}
- County Levies, State Tax, Valuation Only, Assessor's Return, 1842. (1 volume) {#4m.55}
- County Levies, State and Personal Property Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1833-1847. (14 volumes) {#4m.56}
Lurgan Township
- County Levies, State Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1801-1830. (30 volumes) {#4m.57}
- County Levies, State Tax, Summary Transcript for Court Appeals, 1794-1799. (5 volumes) {#4m.58}
- County Levies, State and Personal Property Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1831-1847. (16 volumes) {#4m.59}
- County Levies, State and Personal Property Tax, Valuation Only, 1842. (1 volume) {#4m.60}
Metal Township
- County Levies, State Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1801-1832. (32 volumes) {#4m.61}
- County Levies, State Tax, Assessor's Return, 1801. (1 volume) {#4m.62}
- County Levies, State Tax, Summary Transcript for Court Appeals, 1796-1799. (4 volumes) {#4m.63}
- County Levies, State and Personal Property Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1833-1847. (14 volumes) {#4m.64}
- County Levies, State and Personal Property Tax, Assessor's Return, Valuation Only, 1842. (1 volume) {#4m.65}
Montgomery Township
- County Levies, State Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1801-1830. (29 volumes) {#4m.66}
- County Levies, State Tax, Summary Transcript for Court Appeals, 1794, 1798, 1799. (3 volumes) {#4m.67}
- County Levies, State Tax, Valuation Only, Assessor's Return, 1801. (1 volume) {#4m.68}
- County Levies, State and Personal Property Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1831-1847. (16 volumes) {#4m.69}
- County Levies, State and Personal Property Tax, Valuation Only, 1842. (1 volume) {#4m.70}
Peters Township
- County Levies, Occupation List, 1835. (1 volume) {#4m.71}
- County Levies, State Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1801-1830. (29 volumes) {#4m.72}
- County Levies, State Tax, Assessor's Return, Valuation Only, 1801. (1 volume) {#4m.73}
- County Levies, State Tax, Summary Transcript for Court Appeals, 1794-1799. (3 volumes) {#4m.74}
- County Levies, State and Personal Property Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1831-1847. (16 volumes) {#4m.75}
- County Levies, State and Personal Property Tax, Valuation Only, 1842. (1 volume) {#4m.76}
Quincy Township
- County Levies, State and Personal Property Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1838-1847. (9 volumes) {#4m.77}
- County Levies, State and Personal Property Tax, Assessor's Return, Valuation Only, 1842. (1 volume) {#4m.78}
Saint Thomas Township
- County Levies, State Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1820-1830. (11 volumes) {#4m.79}
- County Levies, State Tax, Valuation Only, Assessor's Return, 1820. (1 volume) {#4m.80}
- County Levies, State and Personal Property Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1831-1847. (16 volumes) {#4m.81}
- County Levies, State and Personal Property Tax, Assessor's Return, Valuation Only, 1842. (1 volume) {#4m.82}
Southampton Township
- County Levies, State Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1801, 1804-1830. (28 volumes) {#4m.83}
- County Levies, State Tax, Assessor's Return, 1801. (1 volume) {#4m.84}
- County Levies, State Tax, Assessor's Return (No Tax Listed), 1810. (1 volume) {#4m.85}
- County Levies, State Tax, Summary Transcript for Court Appeals, 1794-1799, 1809. (5 volumes) {#4m.86}
- County Levies, State and Personal Property Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1831-1847. (16 volumes) {#4m.87}
- County Levies, State and Personal Property Tax, Assessor's Return, Valuation Only, 1842. (1 volume) {#4m.88}
Warren Township
- County Levies, State Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1801, 1804-1830. (27 volumes) {#4m.89}
- County Levies, State Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, Valuation Only, Rough Copy, 1811. (1 volume) {#4m.90}
- County Levies, State Tax, Summary Transcript for Court Appeals, 1796, 1799. (2 volumes) {#4m.91}
- County Levies, State Tax, Valuation Only, Assessor's Return, 1799, 1801. (2 volumes) {#4m.92}
- County Levies, State and Personal Property Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1831-1847. (15 volumes) {#4m.93}
- County Levies, State and Personal Property Tax, Assessor's Return, Valuation Only, 1842. (1 volume) {#4m.94}
Washington Township
- County Levies, State Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1801-1830. (28 volumes) {#4m.95}
- County Levies, State Tax, Assessor's Return, 1794, 1801. (2 volumes) {#4m.96}
- County Levies, State Tax, Summary Transcript for Court Appeals, 1794-1799. (6 volumes) {#4m.97}
- County Levies, State and Personal Property Tax, Assessor's Duplicate, 1831-1847. (16 volumes) {#4m.98}
- County Levies, State and Personal Property Tax, Assessor's Return, 1831. (1 volume) {#4m.99}
- County Levies, State and Personal Property Tax, Assessor's Return, Valuation Only, 1842. (1 volume) {#4m.100}
- County Levies, Tax Exemptions from Militia Duty, 1799-1802. (1 volume) {#4m.101}
- State Tax, List of Freeholders for Court of Appeals, 1813-1820. (2 volumes) {#4m.102}

Unidentified Property Assessment List, 1866. (1 folder) {#4m.103}

JEFFERSON COUNTY

Real Estate and Property Tax List, 1832. (1 item) {#4m.104}

JUNIATA COUNTY

Board of Relief Minute Book, 1861-1865. (1 volume) {#4m.105}

LANCASTER COUNTY

Communication to the Select and Common Councils of the City of Lancaster, by N. Lightner, Mayor, 1824. (1 item) {#4m.106}

Justice of the Peace Docket Book, 1784-1791. (1 volume) {#4m.107}

Lancaster Street Lottery Accounts and Minutes, 1797-1804. (5 items) {#4m.108}

Londonderry Township

Overseers of the Poor Receipt Book, 1767-1833. (1 volume) {#4m.109}

LEBANON COUNTY

Lebanon County Post Office, Accounts, 1822-1826. (1 volume) {#4m.110}

Justice of the Peace Docket Books, 1811-1905. (3 volumes) {#4m.111}

Lebanon Township

Entry Book for Strays, 1816-1902. (1 volume) {#4m.112}

South Londonderry Township

Election Registry Lists, 1913-1918. (5 volumes) {#4m.113}

Stumpstown Post Office Account, 1839-1841. (1 volume) {#4m.114}

LUZERNE COUNTY

Lot Book, 1787. (1 volume) {#4m.115}

Copies of Land Surveys from the Surveyor General's Office, 1804, 1815, 1850, 1852. (1 folder) {#4m.116}

NORTHAMPTON COUNTY

Commissioners Land-viewing Certificate, 1779. (1 item) {#4m.117}

Return of Unseated Lands, 1806. (1 item) {#4m.118}

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY

Will of Joseph Priestly, 1802. (1 item) {#4m.119}

PERRY COUNTY

Sheriff's Receipt Book, 1832-1841. (1 volume) {#4m.120}

PHILADELPHIA COUNTY

Minutes of Commissioners to Examine Witnesses Regarding Contested Election for Sheriff, 1806, 1807. (1 item) {#4m.121}

Indenture Book, ca.1795. (1 item) {#4m.122}

Philadelphia City Laws, 1789-1800. (1 volume) {#4m.123}

POTTER COUNTY

Coudersport Borough

Bond to Borough for George Boyer's Performance of Duties of Collector, 1870. (1 item) {#4m.124}

SOMERSET COUNTY

Elk Lick Township

Justice of the Peace Docket Book, 1811-1818, 1825-1834. (1 volume) {#4m.125}

SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY

Gibson Township

Assessor's Duplicate, County Levies, 1829. (1 volume) {#4m.126}

Court of Common Pleas, Newcomb vs. Rathburn, 1814, 1815. (1 folder) {#4m.127}

UNION COUNTY

Buffalo Township

Tax List, 1800, 1801. (1 volume) {#4m.129}

East Buffalo Township

Account Books, 1838-1900. (2 volumes) {#4m.130}

WASHINGTON COUNTY

Road Viewer's Records, 1785, 1796, 1812. (1 folder) {#4m.131}

YORK COUNTY

Springfield Township

Auditor's Account Books, 1854-1903. (2 volumes) {#4m.132}
Minutes of Meetings of Citizens and of Auditors and School Directors, 1865-1870. (1 item) {#4m.133}
School Board Minute Books, 1849-1872, 1887-1893, 1925-1943. (6 volumes) {#4m.134}

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