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 >> > > -- *Claire Butler* www.mahoganybox.net twitter @mboxgenealogy