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1798 Frederick County Assessment of TaneyTown

Anne Cissel

Information listed below is Names of Lot Owner, Lot Number, By Whom Rents Paid, Changes and Additions since last assessment (the previous assessments would have been 1793, but these records do not exist).

Note the number of lots assessed to Mary Boylan. She is the heiress of Jacob Good who was Constable of Piney Creek Hundred by 1769; Colonel in the local militia during Revolution and Tavern Keeper at the time of his death in 1783, leaving wife Eleanor and daughter Mary. He was the owner of several Taneytown lots. Brothers Adam and George were also lot owners.

A court case in 1807 was brought by Mary (Boylan) Gwinn, reciting that after she married Thomas Boylan in 1789, she found he had a wife living in Ireland. Boylan ran away and she later married John Gwinn by whom she had children. The court was asked to annul her marriage to Boylan, confirm her marriage to Gwinn (by then deceased) and to legitimize her children. These decrees were passed 20 December, 1808.

  • Ann Adams, #24, made an addition
  • Thomas Adams, #27, assessed to John Neil Elie Bently, half of #2
  • John Burk, #30, ass'd before to Patk. McMullen and Harry Crowe; add. to house
  • Daniel Boyle, #11 and #28, rent paid by Christian Wichard; ass'd before to
  • Thomas Stanley and Ninian Beall; new addition
  • John Coskey, #30 and #40, ass'd before to John Hughes Henry Fare's heirs, #12, ass'd before to Richard Brooke Nicholas Fringer, #20, rent paid by Peter Shank Thomas Fisker's heirs, #42, rent paid by Peter Shank Eleanor Good, #22
  • Thomas Gibson, #7, 67, 69, 71, 73, and 75; #7 to John Hughes and the rest to Mary Boylan
  • Adam Good, #8 and 21
  • Adam Gilbert's heirs, #37
  • John Gwinn, #1 and 20, ass'd before to Mary Boylan Peter Hichchen, #31, ass'd before to Benjamin Price
  • Martin Hinds, #32, ass'd before by mistake to Anthony Hinds
  • John Hughes, half of #2,70, and 80, #70 and 80 ass'd before to Mary Boylan; addition
  • Conrad Hoke, #47, 49, 51, 53, first 3 ass'd before to Mary Boylan David Kephart, #55, 57
  • William Kelly, #19, rent paid by George Winebraner; addition Andrew Logan, #44
  • Joseph Little, #6, addition
  • George Lingenfelter, #18
  • Jacob Mires, #26, ass'd before to John McKaleb
  • John McKaleb, #23, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 63, 65, and 103, rent paid by
  • Isaac Good; #23 ass'd before to Jacob Little, rest to Mary Boylan Joseph McKaleb, #4, rent paid by Thomas McGhie
  • Bernard McSherry's heirs, #3, rent paid by Josiah Clements and Peter Orndorff
  • Nicholas Metzler, #16, 59, 61, 77, 79, and 81; last five ass'd before to Mary Boylan
  • Valentine Null, #41 and 43, rent paid by Cornelius Sullivan and Eve Majors; #41 ass'd before by mistake to John James; #43 ass'd before to Jno. Sawyer
  • Michael Null, Senr., #14, rent paid by Joseph Lee Smith John Rosenplot, #25
  • --- Ramburg's heirs, #35
  • John Sawyer, #9, ass'd before to Mary Boylan; built a new house Cornelius Sullivan, #38, ass'd before to Mary Boylan Casper Sneer, #34, ass'd before to Mathias Shryor, addition Henry Swope, #15, rent paid by Robert McCreery Hugh Thompson, #10
  • John Trucks, #5, ass'd before to Ralph Crabb Frederick Varms, #29
  • James Wood, #13, ass'd before to John Trucks Abraham White, #17
  • William Walker, #45, 68, 70, 72, 74, and 76, all but #45 ass'd before to Mary Boylan
  • owner unknown, #33