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Ancestry/Genealogy

OnionPatch

(6,251 posts)

3. It's some sort of tax document I think.

Reply to The Genealogist (Reply #2)

Fri Sep 30, 2016, 06:04 PM

Sep 2016

I got the text from Ancestry a while back and I'm not a member there anymore so I can't access it to see the details. It looks like a list of heads of households in the county of Washington, Pennsylvania. Washington County was pretty sparsely populated at that time. It was south of Pittsburgh, mainly rural, lots of farmers. (This area was where the Whiskey Rebellion took place so I'm guessing they grew a lot of corn. ) There were some small towns and probably some industry. I'm not sure what the timeline is for that, I should check. They wouldn't have been slave holders since it was 1800 and Pennsylvania was never a slave state anyway.

Tai for tailor, con for constable. That makes sense!