1771 Lancaster Borough Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Proprietary Tax List ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Taken from PA Archives, Series 3, Volume 17. This list has been alphabetised with spellings as found in the text. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name Acres Horses Cattle Servants Tax KOCH, John 2 .6 KOCH, John 1 2 .6 Note: no Cooks are found in Lancaster in the mid 1700's, only Koch. As this was a German community, I suspect the Peter Cook was actually born Peter Koch or Johann Peter Koch. John is also English for Johann. It is a shame middle names were not used on these tax records. It would help. Census on these two Johns to follow: CENSUS YEAR: 1800 STATE: PA COUNTY: Lancaster MICROFILM#: M32-39 ENUMERATOR: Jonathan Morre ============================================================================ ============================================================================ ============= | |FREE WHITE MALES |FREE WHITE FEMALES |ALL | | | | 10 16 26 | 10 16 26 |other | | |HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD |to to to to 45 |to to to to 45 |free | | PG#|LAST NAME FIRST NAME |10 16 26 45 up |10 16 26 45 up |Persons|Slaves|Remarks ============================================================================ ============================================================================ ============= 78 Koch John . . . . 1 1 1 . . 1 . . CENSUS YEAR: 1800 STATE: PA COUNTY: Lancaster MICROFILM#: M32-39 ENUMERATOR: Jonathan Morre ============================================================================ ==================================================================== | |FREE WHITE MALES |FREE WHITE FEMALES |ALL | | | | | 10 16 26 | 10 16 26 |other | | | |HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD |to to to to 45 |to to to to 45 |free | | | PG# |LAST NAME FIRST NAME |10 16 26 45 up |10 16 26 45 up |Persons|Slaves|Total|Remarks ============================================================================ ==================================================================== 254 Koch John . . . 1 . . . . . . . . 1 ftp://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/pa/lancaster/1800/indx-h-m.txt Sheila Anderson-Lewis Sheila Anderson-Lewis

> KOCH, John HI Sheila, Just curious if KOCH is an alternate spelling you have found for COOK?? I am learning that our ancestors used a wide variety of spellings for their surnames, and this is a new one for me. Thanks. Lori Researching Pierce/Pearce, Cook, DeShazo, Simons, Gilliland/Gillian/Gilland/Gillam, Stokes, Sparks, Faulkner/Falkner, Bolling/Bowling/Bolland/Bollen/Bowls. Other lines: Purcell, Waldrop, Jones, Vawter, Strain. E:mail: [email protected] if that bounces, use [email protected]