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Quit Rents for Charlestown

 

There are 3 sets of rent rolls of relevance: 1702/3 to 1740, 1741/2, and 1757 to 1775 (Reference: Pennsylvania State Archives, Microfilm Records, Rent Rolls, 1683-1776. {#17.269} LO 32.1-4 (4 rolls)). Only some of the properties in Charlestown paid quit rents. It is clear that there were difficulties in collecting the tax and in some cases there are no recorded payments. The tax was meant to be paid annually but this was rarely the case and it was paid in arrears. The record seems to be one rent that was paid 54 years in arrears!

From the records it is clear there were campaigns to collect Quit Rents in 1739 and 1757.

Ex-proprietors land (e.g. Manor of Bilton) did not incur the tax, neither did lands purchased in England in 1681 - 2 by lease and release before the patent system was set up (e. g. Pickering Mines).

Costs * = equates to rate of 1 shilling Sterling per 100 acres per year.

Information courtesy of the Pennsylvania State Archives.

Tract #

Name

Date

Acreage

Span/ years

Sterling cost

PA Currency

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Thomas

4/21/1742

105.75

3

3s 1.5d

4s 2d

591

Trustees of the Monthly Meeting

4/23/1757

496

13 (by calculation)

£3 15s

 

599

Thomas David

1759

175

11

19s 3d

£1 6s 5p

519

Job Harvey

1760

340

10

£1 14s*

£2 6s 9p

587

David Jones

3/8/1760

150

13

19s 6d*

£1 7s

597

David Emanuel

11/25/1760

60?

1?

£3 8s 6d

£5 16s 5d

585

Emanuel Jones

11/25/1760

150

1?

7s 6d*

10s 9d

 

Sophia David

5/15/1765

43

1?

1s 0d

4s 5d

 

Matthias Martin

5/16/1767

200

10

£1*

£1 10s

 

Jonathan Humphries

5/30/1767

50

2

£1 4s 2d

£1 7s 4d

 

David Jones

3/9/1769

150

9

13s 6d*

£1 3d

 

James Williams

5/11/1769

44

12

£1 2s

£1 15s 8d

 

Thomas John

5/9/1770

105

23

£1 4s 2d

£1 14s 6d

 

Lewis Martin

5/24/1773

300

21

£3 3s*

£4 12s

 

Richard Haldiman

2/8/1774

54 and 106

10

£1 2s 8d

£1 18s 6d

 

John Buckwalter

5/10/1774

190

18

£6 15s

£9 5s 4d

 

John Varley

5/10/1774

130

?

£5 7s 6d

£7 7s 7d

 

John Buckwalter

5/10/1774

130

25

£1 12s 6d*

£2 7s

 

John Varley

5/10/1774

100

15

15s*

£1 5s 1d

 

Thomas Roberts

6/3/1776

170

54

£4 12s 2d

£6 8s 3d