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Researched by Rev. Norman L. Gindlesperger
For the Gindlesperger Family History Association, Inc.© November 17, 1999
Introduction
The Tax Assessments for these years were examined as one part of a larger effort to locate the lands on which the first generation of
Gindlespergers in Somerset County lived and the general movement of the family in the next generation or two. Because of this primary purpose and the limitation of time not all the information available in the
assessment reports was retrieved and presented here. Some of the information presented raises as many questions as it answers, but is presented without attempting to resolve every issue as an invitation for others
to participate in discovering and developing the history of this family. An attempt has been made to identify all the individuals named and has been accomplished with considerable confidence as the notes will
indicate. After the consecutive years in the 1820s only 1830 and 1849 were examined, the latter two so that the information might be compared with the Federal Censuses. The year 1849 was used as a surrogate when the
records for 1850 could not be found readily.
The information presented does indicate that the trend within Somerset County was from Stonycreek Township to Conemaugh Township and later into
Jenner Township. The most significant genealogical detail to be derived from the information presented is the identification of the period within which Albrecht "Albright" Gindlesperger died; namely,
between the submission dates of the successive Assessor's reports, January 6, 1826, and April 27, 1827.
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