You have to be careful. In Virginia between 1782 and 1792 the state requirement for polls was 21, but the counties could elect (and some but not all did) to charge those aged 16 or older. Barbara Vines Little, CG, FNGS, FVGS PO Box 1273 Orange, VA 22960 540-832-3473 [email protected] CG, Certified Genealogist, is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board-certified genealogists after periodic evaluation; the board name is registered in the US Patent & Trademark Office. On 3/12/2015 11:41 PM, Claire Butler via wrote: > With regard to county taxation, I found this, > > Mordecai M'Kinney, *Tax Laws, A digest of the Laws of Pennsylvania, > relative to County and Township Rates and Levies... *(Harrisburg: A. Boyd > Hamilton, 1855), ​15; *Google Books* (http://www.books.google.com : > accessed March 2015). It has the Act of April 15, 1834, which seems to say > the age for taxation was 21. It specifically states: > > ​​ > The assessors were to record “all the taxable inhabitants within their > respective wards, townships, and districts, and also an account of the > following real and personal property. > > ​ > > > 1. Real estate, viz: All houses, lands, lot of ground and ground rents, > mills and manufactories of all descriptions, all furnaces, forges, > bloomeries, distilleries, sugar-houses, malt-houses, breweries, tan-yards > and ferries. > 2. The following personal estate, viz: all horses, mares, geldings, and > cattle above the age of four years. > 3. All offices and posts of profit, professions, trades and > ​o​ > ccupations, and all single freemen above the age of twenty-one years who > shall not follow any occupation or callings.” > > > Dunlop's *General Laws of Pennsylvania, 1700-1849*, was another source for > this information. I couldn't find anything which mentions a 16 year old > paying tax on personal property. I'm going to keep digging. > > Claire Butler > > On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Rondina Muncy <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Claire, >> >> Would you share what you found and what county it applied to? My research >> indicated that sometimes taxes included the 16-21 age bracket, sometimes >> not. Philly seems to have its own set of rules. (As well as records.) >> >> Rondina >> _______________________ >> Rondina P. Muncy >> Ancestral Analysis >> 4008 Linden Avenue >> Fort Worth, Texas 76107 >> 682.224.6584 >> [email protected] >> www.ancestralanalysis.com >> >> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Claire Butler via < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Thank to everyone who offered help with my tax question. I found what I >>> needed! >>> Claire >>> >>> On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Claire Butler <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Good morning, >>>> >>>> Can someone point me in the direction of a source on early Pennsylvania >>>> tax laws? Specifically, I'm trying to find the age at which a young man >>>> became subject to a tax on personal property, e.g. a cow, in the 1830s. >>> Was >>>> it 16 or 21? >>>> >>>> Thanks for the help, >>>> Claire Butler >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> *Claire Butler* >>> >>> www.mahoganybox.net >>> >>> twitter @mboxgenealogy >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> 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 >>> >> >