Tax book for Chestnut, Walnut and Lower Delaware Wards, Philadelphia, April 1767.

Mss.352.1.P531

Date: 1767 | Size: 1 volume(s)
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Abstract

This volume is the tax book of William Savery, an overseer of the poor, for collecting the poor tax in Philadelphia.

Collection Information

Physical description

1 volume.

Provenance

Gift from Samuel Moyerman, 1958; accessioned, 1961 (145ms).

Related material

An edited version of this volume appears in Hannah B. Roach, "Philadelphia's Colonial Poor Laws," Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 22/3(1962):159-185.

General note

On deposit in the city archives.

Indexing Terms


Personal Name(s)

  • Chew, Benjamin, 1722-1810
  • Duché, Jacob, 1738-1798
  • Lawrence, John
  • Mifflin, Samuel, 1724-1781
  • Savery, William

Subject(s)

  • Public welfare -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.