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Learn Who Lived in Town and What
They Owned. Annual tax lists provide a substitute
census for town residents--and some non-residents. Besides
names, they describe real and personal property, with tax
valuations or assessments. With these lists of rates you
can determine if a person lived in the town, and if not,
recognize that absence from the list suggests removal from
town or a recent death.
Andover:
Andover Tax Record Books from
1670-1851. Fiches 117-165.
Auburn:
Ward Tax Rates 1786-1800.
About 300 pages.
Resident and non-resident taxes on
polls, real estate, personal property and/or income for state,
county, town, minister, school, highways, and support of the poor.
Fiches 16-20.
Brewster:
Brewster Valuation List
1890. Fiches 58-60.
Chilmark:
Chilmark Valuation List 1862.
Fiche 31; Chilmark Valuation List 1891. Fiche
32-33.
Dracut:
Dracut Town Records
1749-1780. Book 2. 552 pages.
Most births seem to range
from about 1750-1785; deaths are few; marriages and/or
intentions extend from about 1749-1790. Note, on page
351, the bill for minutemen's bayonets; and, on page
489, the town's 1778 donation of shoes, stockings and
shirts to soldiers serving in Continental army. See page
476 for the assessor's warning that residents are
"Liable to be Doomed" if they do not deliver
to him an invoice listing their taxable personal estate.
No pages numbered as 526-527. Treasurers & Town Records
1777-1780, pp 476-537. Fiche 24.
Dunstable:
sample
Dunstable Ancient Records
1743-1801. 546 pages.
This 1876 copy of
"Ancient Records" includes town meeting
minutes, oaths, perambulations, church members, town
accounts of 1743-1790, and a 1744 tax list (pages
4-5)--along with marriages of 1757-1773. (Note that
Dunstable identifies, variously, with New Hampshire,
Middlesex, and the Province of Massachusetts Bay.)
Additional vital records of 1724-1801 seem to come from
another source, as the original book includes no births
nor deaths. Perhaps the unknown source also provides the
interesting commentaries about lost and found items on
pages 533-534. Fiche 6.
Hingham:
Valuation of Hingham in 1749.
[4 1/2" x 12 1/2" brown book]. Fiche 22
Topsfield:
Topsfield Rateables and Residents
1805-1811. Fiches 55-56.
Walpole:
Walpole Tax Lists 1761-1778.
About 215 pages. Fiches 6-11.
Includes some residents of other towns; e.g., Dedham,
Medfield, Stoughton and Wrentham.
Westborough:
Westborough Tax Lists 1756-1799.
Fiches 22-25.
Included on these lists are taxes for 1756 and 1799, as
well as 14 years in between: 1761, 1762, 1771, 1776,
1777, 1779, 1782, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1777, and
1798. Among the various taxes are those for polls, real
and personal property, highway, and minister. From
1797-1799, non-resident taxpayers are referenced to
Grafton, Hopkinton, Lancaster, Marlborough,
Northborough, Princetown, Shrewsbury, Southborough, and
Upton.
West Bridgewater:
West Bridgewater State, County and Town Taxes for 1824.
No. 2. Fiche 24.
Lists polls; real estate, including buildings, business,
and land; some animals; and money "at interest."
West Bridgewater Valuation List
1825-1826. Fiches 25-26.
Residents and non-residents, arranged alphabetically.
West Bridgewater Taxes 1828-1830.
Fiche 27.
Residents and non-residents.
West Bridgewater Assessors Report on
Personal & Real Estate Tax, 1831.
Fiches 28-29.
West Bridgewater Valuation and Tax for
1832. No. 185. Fiches 30-31.
Polls, real and personal estates.
West Bridgewater State, County and
Town Taxes for 1834. No. 150.
Fiches 32-33.
Westford:
Westford Taxes 1840. About 50
pages. Fiche 113.
Resident & Non-Resident Tax Lists in 1840.
Westford Tax Lists 1843.
About 100 pages. Fiches 114-116.
Westford Assessed Polls 1886-1896.
361 pages. Fiches 117-122.
This volume provides name, age, approximate address
(sometimes by school district), and occupation; as well
as former residence, if any.
Westminster:
Westminster Tax Records 1810-1818.
[Vol. 2]. About 360 pages. Fiches 109-121. Besides the
name of each resident and non-resident subject to taxes
imposed by the state, county, and town, these records
show the specific assessments for polls and for real and
personal property. Expenditures from collected taxes
included payments to the minister and for highways.
Westminster [Tax] Records 1818-1828.
Vol 3. About 360 pages. Fiches 115-121.
Westminster [Tax Records 1826].
About 40 pages. Fiche 121.
Westminster Tax Records 1829-1849.
About 470 pages. Fiches 122-129.
Westminster [Tax Records 1838].
Fiche 130.
Worthington:
Valuation for State Tax in 1793.
Minister Tax in 1820.
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