Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2007.005.179 |
Object Name |
Documents |
Scope & Content |
Directive from New Hampshire provincial treasurer George Jaffrey, ordering the collection of taxes for the year 1756 from the inhabitants of New Castle. Said taxes could be paid in bills of credit, coined silver, coined gold, or a number of other commodities/manufactures, like tar, pitch, pork, beef, wheat, rye, merchantable pine boards, etc. Back of document has a few lists of citizens with numbers attached, likely tax amounts, marked 1755 and 1758. Also contains a list of the constables elected in 1756 and 1757 and the amounts the rejectors paid to avoid the office. |
Catalog type |
Archive |
Dates of Creation |
1756 |
Title |
Town Records, 1756 |
Collection |
New Castle Town Records (Fragment File) |
Related units of description |
2007.005.148 |
People |
Jaffrey, George Colton, Jonathon Leach, John Card, Edward Nule, John Jones, Zachariah Marten, Robert Nickerson, Solomon Ellerson, Thomas Jones, Robertson Dathem, John Randle, James Amazeen, John Simpson, John Batson, Nathaniel Randle, Benjamin Amazeen, Ephraim Blunt, John Bell, Benjamin, Jr. Yetton, Benjamin Foss, Henry Yetton, Richard Randle, Paul Long, William Sheafe, Sampson Junior Tucker, Henry White, Joshua Branscomb, Simon Vinard, William Murphy, Robert Pritchard, Christopher Malloon, Benjamin Long, William Junior Trefethen, Henry Junior Long, Samuel Paine, Samuel Kenny, Richard Shannon, John Amazeen, Joseph Harvey, John Frost, Andrew |
Search Terms |
Town Records, 1755 Town Records, 1756 Town Records, 1757 Town Records, 1758 |
Subjects |
Legal affairs Government records Town records Tax records |
Lexicon category |
8: Communication Artifact |
Lexicon sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Date |
1756 |