22 March 1786

Manuscript document

Title: [Extract from Tax Act passed March 22nd 1786]

Extract from a tax act passed by the Massachusetts General Court pertaining to the Waldo patent lands.

GLC02437.09147

19 April 1786

Winslow, Samuel, fl. 1781-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Writes to inform Knox of an inquiry he has made regarding taxes levied on the Waldo patent lands. Provides a report on the taxes and suggests that he, Knox, and their associates present a list of their grievances to the next session of the General Court. Adds that if Knox cannot be in town at the appropriate time, he might like to write to his friends [Benjamin] Hichborn and [Edward H.] Robbins for further advice.

GLC02437.09151

22 September 1767

Palairet, John, fl. 1767-1768

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Addressee unknown, but may be Samuel Waldo, as he corresponded with Waldo in subsequent letters on the same subject (see GLC02437.09054). Declares that the bearer, his friend Mr. Hulton, has recently been appointed to a position as Commissioner of His Majesty's Customs for America. As a show of friendship, has offered to sell Mr. Hulton his choice of Palairet's lands in the Waldo patent. Asks the addressee to answer any questions Hulton might have and show him the lands belonging to Palairet and his son, so he might make his choice. Discusses business accounts, as well as the receipt of a…

GLC02437.09045

30 March 1796

Sargent, Winthrop, 1753-1820

Manuscript document

Title: [Book list and inventory]

Date inferred from a pencil note that states, "With letter of W Sargent 30 March 1796" (GLC02437.06682). Apparently continued from another page. Contains sections 3, 4, and 5, each referring to inventories of trunks or boxes. No. 3 is a book list indicating the number of copies of "More's France, Domestic Memoirs, Roman's Floridas, Stewarts political Economy, Franklin's polil Works... Principles of Taxation, Anderson's Institute's, Mirabeau's Portrait," and others. No. 4 notes uncataloged books and swords. No. 5 lists sconces and papers from the right and left hand side of the bookcase…

GLC02437.10325

29 October 1788

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: [Petition]

A draft to petition the General Court for land that was illegally sold to pay taxes. Mentions a resolve passed by the legislature which protects the heirs land rights to the Waldo patent. Letter is not signed but was possibly written by Henry Knox.

GLC02437.09204

22 November 1788

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Receipt]

Noted as a copy. Expenses incurred by Henry Knox during a visit to the patent of Beauchamp [Waldo patent]. Document also includes a receipt for a portion of paid taxes by Isaac Winslow to Henry Knox.

GLC02437.09207

29 November 1861

Boughton, Nisbet & Barnes

Newspaper

Title: Daily federal union. [Vol. 4, no. 19 (November 29, 1861)]

Subjects include Lord Lyons and the capture of the Confederate commissioners Mason and Slidell, admission of Missouri to the Confederacy, 11 November 1861 proclamation from the governor to the volunteer militia companies of the state. This issue includes minutes of the gubernatorial and senatorial reports, and lists of elected senators, representatives, and war tax collectors. Inclues small sections of Southern news, including the secession of Missouri and an update of war events in Pensacola. Selected correspondence between Governor Joseph E. Brown and General William H.T. Walker highlights…

GLC05959.01.01

November 4, 1861

Gilbert, Thomas, fl. 1861-1864

Newspaper

Title: Daily sun. [Vol. 7, no. 89 (November 4, 1861)]

Subjects include Georgia Constitution, Beauregard's General Orders, Death of Sam Houston Reported. In an effort to dispel fiction from fact, this issue includes a very detailed account of the battles of Leesburg and Manassas. A list of cotton factories lists statistical production. Letters to the editor request information about taxes. This issue has an ad for swords suitable for military men. Death notices for Sam Houston and two young girls of typhoid fever are included.

GLC05959.03.03

6 December 1863

Morse, N.S., fl. 1862-1864

Newspaper

Title: Daily chronicle & sentinel. [Vol. 27, no. 355 (December 6, 1863)]

Yankee Estimates of Battle of Chattanooga, Siege of Knoxville. A detailed letter from Atlanta describes the recent mayoral election. An editorial implores the Confederate Congress to improve the currency situation through taxation. An article details the ways confederate prisoners are treated in Western prisons. Another article describes effective ways to pack cotton in wooden boxes to avoid moisture damage. A notice outlines the acts of plundering vandals from the North and encourages readers to treat them with contempt. There are slave ads and runaway slave ads in this issue. The newspaper…

GLC05959.07.04

2 April 1863

Hanleiter & Adair (publishers), fl. 1861-1865

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy. [Vol. 3, no. 42 (April 2, 1863)]

"Movements of the Enemy" gives a brief description of events in South Carolina. Within the section entitled "The Special Richmond Correspondence," "The Vote on the Tax Bill" discusses bills brought before the Confederate Senate. In "Kentucky's Peril," reprinted from the Louisville Journal of March 17th, W. G. Brownlow warns the state of Kentucky about the imminent approach of the Union army.

GLC05959.09.164

1763-1783

Angell, Charles, fl. 1763-1783

Document signed

Title: [Notice of assessment]

Notice instructing Timothy Hopkins to present "to Samuel Brown, Principal Assessor for this district, a list truly stating the value of your household furniture, (excepting therefrom, beds, bedding, kitchen furniture, family pictures, and articles made in the family from domestic materials) and the number and description of watches kept for use, by you or by any one of your family. The penalty by law, for neglect in this behalf, is one hundred dollars." Possibly created circa 1750-1800; ancestral records for Scituate contain various persons with the names Charles Angell, Samuel Brown, or…

GLC01450.446.15

2 October 1789

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804

Letter signed

Title: to Sharpe Delaney

"As in the first establishment of Revenue systems, imperfections and inconveniencies will naturally present themselves in practice, which could not have been foreseen in their formation; it is of the greatest moment, that the best information should be collected for the use of the Government as to the operation of those which may have been adopted... Though the complaints of the Merchants will not always be infallible indications of defects, yet they will always merit attention, and when they occur, I should be glad to be particularly informed of them...It has been very much apprehended that…

GLC09063

24 September 1798

Heron, William, fl. 1798

Printed document signed

Title: [Appointment of assessors for the 47th assessment district]

Appoints "Samson Howe, Thaddeus Learned, Jonathan Nichols, Zadoc Spalding & Hobart Torrey...Assessors for the 47th Assessment District comprising the Towns of Killingley & Thomson..." Signed by five Connecticut State Commissioners: Heron[a Revolutionary War spy], Andrew Kingsbury, Epaphroditus Champion, Shubael Abbe, and Julius Deming.

GLC09068

25 August 1803

Robinson, Joseph, fl. 1803

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Receipt to pay Captain Edward Kelleran]

Receipt for payment to Captain Edward Kelleran (he spells it "Killeran") of two dollars and twenty-four cents, as a discharge related to taxes for the year 1801. Signed by Joseph Robinson, as Collector of Cushing, Maine, and by someone (name illegible) on behalf of Henry Knox.

GLC02437.07817

23 September 1803

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Receipt pertaining to Nathan Libby]

Indicates that Knox received a certain sum from Nathan Libby in highway taxes for the town of Warren, Maine. Written in Knox's hand, but signed by Libby.

GLC02437.07825

20 September 1804

Webster, Andrew, fl. 1804

Manuscript document signed

Title: to His Excellency the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Written from Stillwater, likely in Maine. Addressed to the Governor of Massachusetts and the General Court. Petition, from the majority of the assessors of Stillwater Plantation in Hancock County, describes the boundaries and population of the territory. Given its large size and population, the assessors request that a Justice of the Peace be assigned to their region. Signed by several assessors, including Andrew Webster.

GLC02437.07878

August 1784

Withington, Phillip, fl. 1784

Printed document

Title: to Henry Knox

Town tax bill for Henry Knox totaling £17.8.5.

GLC02437.08568

28 October 1786

Tate, Robert, fl. 1786

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Tax receipt]

Tax receipt regarding £2, 2s. in taxes. Includes two notes of receipt on the verso signed by John Hobby. Noted as written in Falmouth, state unknown.

GLC02437.08599

1778

Shaw, Francis, fl. 1778

Printed document signed

Title: [Tax bill for William Knox]

Tax bill is divided into state tax and town tax. The state tax includes: £2 poll tax, £1.13.6 house and land tax, £4.10.0 personal estate and faculty tax, for a total of £8.3.6. The town tax includes: £0.1.6 poll tax, £0.10.0 house and land tax, and £0.5.0 personal estate and faculty tax, for a total of £0.8.4. William owed £8.11.10 in total.

GLC02437.08457

26 March 1800

Kingsbury, Phineas, fl. 1800

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Certificate]

Certifies something concerning payment for roads in 1799. Mentions a William McGlathery. Noted as written at Frankfort, state unknown.

GLC02437.08763

19 May 1800

McGlathery, William, fl. 1800-1801

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Taxes]

List for taxation.

GLC02437.08768

5 July 1800

Stubbs, James, fl. 1800

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Note]

Lists taxes collected for the year 1799. Noted as written in Frankfort, state unknown.

GLC02437.08769

26 May-7 August 1803

Manuscript document

Title: [Tax statement]

List of taxes and includes a note of receipt dated Thomaston 7 August by Thomas Burkmar.

GLC02437.08810

3 November 1803

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Payment]

Taxes for the state, town of Waldoborough and school.

GLC02437.08817

16 September 1864

McParlin, Thomas A., 1825-1897

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alida McParlin

Acknowledges receiving his wife's letter. Comments on the return of the Naval Academy to Annapolis, and the government's ability to build hospitals. Discusses his department and military matters, taxes, and Alida's restlessness, and the brigadier general brevet of R.S. Satterlee. Says "I hear that the draft is ordered to proceed at once." Notes at the top of page one that he is "in excellent health."

GLC02649.15