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Chapter 22: statistics.

  • Valuation in 1647.
    • -- rate list in 1688. -- census in 1777. -- valuation in 1781. -- list of voters in 1822. -- census at intervals from 1765 to 1875. -- number of polls, valuation, rate and amount of tax, and amount of the City debt, in each year from the incorporation of the City in 1846 to 1875. -- census in 1875. -- Vice-president of the United States. -- Governors. -- Deputy or Lieutenant-Governors. -- Assistants. -- Councillors. -- Senators. -- Representatives. -- Selectmen. -- Assessors. -- Town Clerks. -- Town Treasurers. -- Mayors. -- Aldermen. -- Presidents of the Common Council. -- members of the Common Council. -- City Clerks. -- City Treasurers. -- Clerks of the Common Council
    The Town Records contain the following Rate List: The number of persons & of the estate of the [inhabitants] as it was taken by the townsmen by the order of the Court1 in the yeare 1647 (1) mo.:—

    l.s.d.
    135 #sons, at 20l #heade, one peny in the pound, comes to 11l. 5s110500
    90 houses, at 2537l. 10s101105
    Broaken land, 776 ac. at 1l # ac. 3l. 4s. 8d030408
    Unbroaken land, 1084 ac. at 10s # ac.020504
    Marsh land, 500 ac. at 10s # ac.010108
    ffarr medowes, 258 ac. at 6s # ac.000605
    208 cowes, at 5l cow, 1040l040608
    42 three yearelings, at 4l # head,001400
    74 two yearelings, at 2l. 10s # head,001505
    79 one yearling, at 1l. 10s # heade,000910 1/2
    14 steers, at 5l # heade,000510
    131 oxen, at 6l. # heade,030506
    20 horse, at 7l. # heade,001100
    6 thre yearlings, at 5l # heade,000206
    9 two yearlings, at 3l. # heade,000203
    5 one yearelings, at 2l # heade,000010
    37 Sheepe at 1l. 10s # heade,000407 1/2
    62 swine, at 1l # heade,000502
    58 goates, at 8s # heade,000111
    ——————
    total, 40l. 01s. 4d400104

    1 This ‘Order of the Court,’ establishing what was called a ‘single rate’ was passed in November, 1646: ‘That a due proportion may be had in all public rates, it is ordered, that every male within this jurisdiction, servant or other, of the age of sixteen years and upward, shall pay yearly into the common treasury the sum of 20d., and so in some proportionable way for all estates, viz. that all and every person that have estates shall pay one penny for every 20s estate both for lands and goods; and that every laborer, artificer, and handicrafts man that usually take in summer time above 18d by the day wages, or work by the great which by due valuation amounts to more than 18d. by the day, shall pay per annum 3s. 4d. into the treasury, over and besides the 20d. before mentioned,’ etc.—Mass. Col. Rec., II. 173.

    Boston. Houghton and Mifflin. 1877.

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