Has anyone ever seen a list of those (mostly Quakers, Mennonites, and Brethren) who were charged or paid the triple tax as a result of the oath of allegiance law that said if you don't take the oath nor the affirmation, you have to pay the triple tax for life? The law was apparently in force between about April 1777 until it was repealed a year or two later. I think I once saw the list of those who actually took the oath in 1778, but I forget where I saw it and it was not a long list. Also, is anyone aware of any diaries, journals, day books, account books for any of the Germans in Hagerstown area for the period between 1750 to 1800? Or even memoirs for Germans who may have written such later in the 2 or 3 decades after 1800? I ask this in the context of writing a book about a German immigrant who arrived Frederick Co in 1753 and died with a wife and 7 children in 1799. Ned D.

Norman: I have never heard anything like this. I do know that all foreigners were required to take a oath of Allegiance before being allowed to leave the incoming ship.In all of the cases I have seen, the Lord Luientant Governor acted as agent for the Crown and received the petitions from the ships owners or agents and signed them on behalf of the Crown. There was a fee as I recall. but it was fairly small. I do not know of any incident where by a County such as Washington collected any fees., it was All done at the port of arrival. However having said that, we have the Hessan soldiers who were of course german and thus foreigners, what you are talking about could have been deserters who signed up to fight the Crown and paid a fee for documentation of some sort. I have a book on the subject of German immigrants and will take a look at it and see if anything of this nature is mentioned. Gordon Crooks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Norman E. Donoghue, II" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 10:51 AM Subject: [MDWashin] Triple Tax, Journals,Day books of Germans in Hagerstown area > Has anyone ever seen a list of those (mostly Quakers, Mennonites, and > Brethren) who were charged or paid the triple tax as a result of the oath > of > allegiance law that said if you don't take the oath nor the affirmation, > you > have to pay the triple tax for life? The law was apparently in force > between > about April 1777 until it was repealed a year or two later. > > I think I once saw the list of those who actually took the oath in 1778, > but > I forget where I saw it and it was not a long list. > > Also, is anyone aware of any diaries, journals, day books, account books > for > any of the Germans in Hagerstown area for the period between 1750 to 1800? > Or even memoirs for Germans who may have written such later in the 2 or 3 > decades after 1800? > > I ask this in the context of writing a book about a German immigrant who > arrived Frederick Co in 1753 and died with a wife and 7 children in 1799. > > Ned D. > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/MDWASHIN > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message