1839 Tax List for Washington Township, Greene County, PA

- Transcribed by Debbie Ovechka

Continuing with the earliest tax lists for each township in Greene County, we have herewith the Washington Township list for the year 1839. Washington Township was established in 1838 and comprised land formerly in Morgan, Morris and Franklin Townships. The assessor was Christian J. Parker and occupations were not identified; however, most were farmers.

Previous townships listed have been Aleppo (1818), Center (1820), Cumberland (1798), Dunkard (1809), Franklin (1809), Greene (1797), Jackson (1841), Jefferson (1800), Marion (1836), Monongahela (1830), Morgan (1800), Morris (1800), Perry (1843) and Richhill (1804).

Argo, William	Anderson, Jessee	Bradford, Heirs	Braden, Jacob
Boyd, Richard	Barns, Jacob	(trans. From Silas Crane)	Bristor, Henry
Broadberry, Christopher	Breading, James	Bottomfield, John	Broadberry, Abner
Boyd, Robert	Bane, Nathan	Bilby, Christopher	Blatchley, Miller (crossed out; lives in Morris Township)
Braden, James	Bristor, James	Braden, Robert	Crayne, John
Craig, Jesse	Clark, Lewis (crossed out; gone out of state)	(trans. To John M. Reeves)	Cockart, James
Cowen, William	Church, Jesse	Cowen, Thomas	Cowen, William Jr.
Cooper, Anthony	Day, Elija (crossed out; moved out of Tp)	Doty, Lewis	Dun, Joseph
Dun, Samuel	Evans, Caleb	Edgar, Daniel	Edgar, Isaac
Edgar, Israel	Edgar, Moses	Fulton, Stephen	Gray, William
Gray, John	Graham, William	Garner, Samuel (Judge)	Gray, Asa (crossed out, lives in Wash. Co)
Garrison, David	Headlee, John	Huffman, Benjamin	Huffman, John
(trans. From Zephaniah McGinnis)	Huffman, George; of George Peter	Hopkins, Levi (crossed out; lives in Morris Clark, Isaac Twp)	(trans, to Jessie Pettit)
Hunt, Andrew	(trans. From Edwin Wood and	(50 acres trans. To Asa Hughes)	Hedge, William (76 acres trans, tp James Cowen, Joseph Rush)
Hunt, Daniel Heirs (crossed out; trans to Cary, Daniel Wm .Hunt)	Headlee, Jacob	Hedge, Absalom	Hedge, Jester (crossed out; lives in Morgan Twp)
Hopkins, Daniel Heirs	Hughes, Nathan	Huffman, George of Benjamin	Hunt, John
Harden, E.	Huffman, David	Hughes, Andrew	Hughes, John
Huss, Benjamin	Johnson, Zenas	John, Jacob Jr.	Iams, Thomas
Johns, Jacob	Johns, Thomas	Jordan, Silas (crossed out; lives in Franklin Two.)	Jones, Denis
Johnston, Thomas, Single	Johnston, Zephaniah	Kelso, Ira (crossed out)	Kelly, Jesse
Kelly, William	Kelly, James	Kigely, George	Laycock, Adna
Lackin, William (run off)	Lewis, Robert	Meekes, Elisha	McCormick, Robert (60 acres trans, from Jacob McC.)
Meek, John	Masters, Amos	Marten, Bonam	Meeks, Elisha, Jr.
McGinnis, Zephaniah (1 distillery)	McCormick, Jacob (crossed out; trans. To Robert)	Meeks, Jacob	Martin, Philip
McGinis, James	Marten, John	McGinis, John	Mucker, John
McClelland, Nancy; widow	Martin, Thomas	Miller, James	McNorland, William
Martin, Amos (395 acres trans, from Crawford heirs)	Mitchel, Shedrick	Mitchel, Asa	McClelland, Cary (crossed out)
Mildred, Charles H.	McNay, Joseph (trans. From Ira Kelso)	Mitchell, Isaac	Muckle, John Jr.
Oliver, Samuel	Pope, John (trans. From Jacob Boylan)	Parker, John	Pettit, Nathaniel (crossed out; lives (Morris Township)
Pettit, Silas	Pettit, Isaac (1 distillery)	Pettit, James	Pettit, Jesse (1 distillery) (200 acres trans. from Peter Huffman)
Pettit, Charles (crossed out; lives in (Morris Township)	Parker, Christian	Paterson, Samuel (1 distillery-grist & (saw mills)	Philips, Bayley
Parker, James	Roach, James	Rinehart, John	Rieves, Phenius
Right, Lewis	Ross, Benjamin	Roup, Michael (trans to James Ryley)	Reeves, John M.
Ross, Thomas Heirs	Riley, James (trans from Michael Roup)	Rodgers, Daniel	Robinson, John
Russel, Henry	Rush, James	Rees, Thomas J.	Roop, John
Rinehart, Asa	Rupe, Samuel	Rupe, Henry	Rupe, Michael, Jr.
Roach, John	Roach, George	Simmerman, George	Smith, Jacob
Smith, Dennis	Smith, Abraham	Staly, Peter	Sook, Solomon (crossed out; moved out of Twp)
Snider, David	Sook, Abraham	Taylor, John W.	Taylor, Thomas W.
Tharp, Benjamin Heirs	Turner, Abel	Tharp, Benjamin	Voros, Workman
Uller, Stephen (crossed out; error returned	to Levi Wolley)	Wilson, Abner (can't find him)	Wear, John
Wood, Edwin (trans to Andrew Hunt)	Wolery, Levi	Wildman, Justice	West, William
Wilson, Eliza L.	Young, Thomas (crossed out; Washington county)	Young, Thomas (trans, to Lewis Johnston)	Zimmer, Henry
Wollery, Stephen	Tharp, Ichabod	Taylor, William W.	Taylor, George Heirs

Single Men

[Source: The Greene Hills Echo, Published by the Green County Historical Society]

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