COUNTY TAX WARD NO. 5. 1787.
[Boston: 1787]. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". 18 leaves, each with vertical columns. 20 pages are completed in manuscript. Plain contemporary wrappers, with inner margins and spine reinforced by tape; wrappers separated from text, and the leaves are loose. Else lightly worn and Very Good.
This list of county taxpayers has names of more than one hundred residents; tables report their personal and real property assessments, and their poll, real estate, and personal property taxes paid. A few of the people were Ebenezer Hancock, younger brother of John Hancock and Deputy Paymaster-General of the Continental Army; Thomas Pemberton, antiquarian and historian of the Revolution; James Tewksbury, who had been a Minute-Man; Dr. Amos Winship, a naval surgeon and acquaintance of John and Abigail Adams; Samuel Austin, a Boston selectman in 1774. Item #26593
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