The following is the direct tax for Colerain township, Lancaster county ,Pa. for the year of 1815

Land owners taxed on property, homes, barns etc... on the land.

Included here will be the land owner and the names of persons with adjoining property.

If your Ancestor is found further check of these records could tell you the size of their home, if it was one or two story, sometimes if it was stone or log , size of property, size and building material of barns and other out buildings. and lastly the amount of properties worth.

This will include Non - residents owning property in this township. non- res. will be listed after their name.

(please note this person script made it hard to tell R from N when it was the last letter of the name so names like Millinor may be Millinon, also many i's were not dotted and were hard to tell from e's)

I will give one example of what the full tax form said in complete. Between ..... ....... is the spaces which were to be filled in.

List of lands, lots of ground, with their improvements and dwelling houses owned by.....Patrick..Brown....on the 1st day of April 1815, lying and being within the 6th collection district of Pennsylvania, viz. In....Colerain.....township, Lancaster county One farm, situate adjoining the lands of......Abrm Whiteside, Samuel Reynolds, and others....... containing ......Two hundred and fifty ......acres and ....................perches; having theron ......one....dwellinghouse....of....Log.....of.....two....Stor..ies... ...twenty four..feet in length, by .....twenty .four......feet in depth; ....one....barn of ....part stone and part log sixty feet by twenty four feet......... Valued at ........Seventeen hundred and fifty dollars......