Tax records

Object number
FIC.2022.101
Creator
Ellery, William, 1727-1820
Date
June 1767
Description
Pages from a dis-bound manuscript listing the taxable estates (property) of Newport residents for the purposes of establishing a tax across the Colony. Columns list buildings, mills, enslaved people, livestock, cider, hay, salt, and other goods and property. The document is titled "A list of the Polls and Estates Real and Personal of the Proprietors and Inhabitants of the Town of Newport in the Colony of Rhode Island taken by the Subscribers pursuant to an Act of the General Assembly of said Colony pap'd at their Session June 1767."
Materials
paper
Documentation Type
Tax Record
Object Type
tax records

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