Tax assessments for towns in the District of Maine, 1777.

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Tax assessments for towns in the District of Maine, 1777.

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Tax assessment letters for 1776 and 1777 sent to Henry Gardner, treasurer and receiver general of Massachusetts, from the towns of Arundel, Berwick, Bristol, Booth Bay, Buxton, Edgecomb, Georgetown, Gorham, Harpswell, Murrayfield, Pownalborough, and Woolwich in the district of Maine. Also includes tax assessment for Stoughtonham and Tyringham in Mass. A few of these letters mention the poor state of the town and the difficulty in paying the taxes assessed.

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Massachusetts. Treasury Office

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Throughout the provincial period, Massachusetts towns were periodically assessed by the Treasury with taxes for the defraying of public charges and support of the government. This practice increased in importance and frequency during the Revolutionary War, as individual colonies became largely responsible for financial support of the war effort. Resolves 1777-78, c 398 (Oct. 9, 1777), dictated that all Massachusetts financial support of the war was thenceforth to be based on taxation only, with ...

Gardner, Henry, 1731-1782

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