Includes the counties of Bedford, Berks, Bucks, Chester, Cumberland, Lancaster, Northampton, Northumberland, Philadelphia, Westmoreland, and York.

"On the 107 rolls of this microfilm publication are reproduced records of tax assessment lists for 24 collection districts established in the State of Pennsylvania by an Executive order of August 11, 1862. The lists were created in the offices of assessors and assistant assessors of Internal Revenue during the period 1862-66. ...The records are part of Records of the Internal Revenue Service, Record Group 58, in the National Archives of the United...

"On the 24 rolls of this microfilm publication are reproduced 717 volumes containing tax lists and related summary abstracts for Pennsylvania created under an act of July 14, 1798 (1 Stat. 597), the first direct tax law of the U.S. Government ... The records reproduced in this microcopy are a part of the Department of the Treasury records in the National Archives designated as Record Group 58, Records of the Internal Revenue Service." -- p. 1, 3.