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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:
sample
Topsfield Rateables and Residents
1805-1811. Fiches 55-56.
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