Quaker tax list, 1781-1782.

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Quaker tax list, 1781-1782.

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Series records Militia Act assessments made on various towns with populations of Quakers. In ledger format, each page lists amount assessed to collectors in a particular town, along with amounts paid. Some indicate that the tax was abated by the General Court, or transferred to the town's overall Class Tax bill for deficient classes. End of volume also contains records relating to 1781 payments of 1770-1773 taxes owed by the town of Conway, then part of Hampshire County in Massachusetts. Also included is a small assortment of actual assessors' returns from 1781 relating to the Quaker Tax, sent to Treasurer Gardner (1774-1782).

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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 ...

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Gardner, Henry, 1731-1782

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