[412] 1677, £ 3; in 1687, £ 5. Horses, three years and upwards, in 1677, £ 3; in 1687, £ 5. Cows and bulls, four years old, in 1677, £ 2; in 1687, £ 3. Sheep, above one year old, in 1677, 5s. each; in 1687, 8s. Swine, above one year, in 1677, 10s.; in 1687, £ 1. The first session of the General Court, under the second charter, began June 8, 1692; and they voted that 10s. a poll, and one-quarter part of the annual income on all real and personal estate in the Province, be assessed. These taxes, assessed upon the Province by the House of Representatives from 1692 to 1702, averaged £ 11,000 per annum. Of this sum, Medford paid, in 1692, £ 32. 18s.; in 1696, £ 42; in 1698, £ 20; in 1702, £ 19. 1s.; while Malden paid, in the same years, £ 121, £ 90, £ 45, and £ 48. Woburn paid £ 181, £ 144, £ 75, and £ 85. Cambridge paid £ 214, £ 189, £ 102, and £ 102. To show a town-tax at this period, and also the names most frequently occurring in the town's records, we here insert “a rate made by the selectmen, May 16, 1701, for defraying town-charges; namely, for the deputy, and the laying in of ammunition; and for fetching and carrying Mr. Woodbridge, and the entertaining of him.”
| £ | s. | d. | |
| Maj. Nathaniel Wade | 1 | 6 | 4 |
| John Whitmore | 0 | 6 | 8 |
| Stephen Hall, jun. | 0 | 7 | 5 |
| Eliezer Wier | 0 | 5 | 8 |
| John Bradstreet | 0 | 7 | 6 |
| John Man | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Lieut. Peter Tufts | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| Ens. Stephen Francis | 0 | 16 | 8 |
| Serg. John Bradshaw | 0 | 11 | 5 |
| Mr. Thomas Willis | 0 | 17 | 6 |
| Nathaniel Hall | 0 | 5 | 4 |
| John Francis | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| John Hall, jun. | 0 | 8 | 6 |
| Jonathan Tufts | 0 | 19 | 10 |
| Stephen Willis, jun. | 0 | 6 | 8 |
| Stephen Hall, sen. | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Serg. Stephen Willis | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Ebenezer Brooks | 0 | 17 | 8 |
| Samuel Brooks | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Mr. Richard Rookes | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| Mrs. Elizabeth Wade | 0 | 18 | 9 |
| Parcill Hall | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| George Blanchard | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Jacob Shepherd | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| Nathaniel Peirce | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| James Tufts | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| Timothy Prout | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Mr. Thomas Swan | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| John Tufts | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Mr. Joseph Prout | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Francis Whitmore | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Benjamin Marble | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| James Wright | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| William Merroe | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Thomas Miler | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Mathew Miler | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| William Walden | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Thomas Clark | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Peter Seccomb | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Eben. Brooks his man | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Benjamin Peirce | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Samuel Stone | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| William Paten | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Mr. Jonathan Dunster | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| Mr. John Hall | 1 | 1 | 10 |
