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Catalog Number/Object ID |
2009-100-1No1.33 |
Object Name |
Folders (containers) |
Title |
Assessors Accounts-Tax Collector 1810-1819 |
Caption of Image |
Letter about the loss of $1700.00 |
Scope & Content/Description |
This folder, labeled "Assessor Accounts and Tax Collections, 1810-1819," contains the following: 1. Payment of $68.25 to John Sparhawk for 45-1/2 days' service as assessor, 1816. 2. Payment of $6.00 to Warwick Palfray, August 24, 1816. 3. Payment of $2.25 to John Pedrick for 1-1/2 days' service as assessor, April 1816. 4. Payment of $2.25 to Joseph Swett for 1-1/2 days' service as assessor, 1816. 5. Payment of $4.50 to John Bond for 3 days' service as assessor, June 1816. 6. Payment of $89.58 to Joseph Prentiss for 56 days' service as assessor, 1814. 7. Payment of $75.88 to Joseph Swell for 53 days' service as assessor, 1814. 8. Payment of $74.38 to John Pedrick for 52 days' service as assessor, 1814. 9. Certification that Thomas Calley, Collector of Taxes for 1811, produced receipts in full from state, county and town treasurers and therefore due $505.50 for collecting the same, December 6, 1813. 10. Certification that Thomas Appleton produced receipts from state and county treasurers and was owed $427.30 for collecting the same. Signed by Joshua Prentiss and Joseph Swett, Assessors, January 26, 1810. 11. Payment of $77.38 to John Pedrick for 45-1/2 days' service as assessor during 1813. 12. Payment of $83.63 to Joseph Swett for 49 days' service as assessor, dated Frbruary 27, 1813. 13. Payment of $3.00 to Richard James for taking the numbers of inhabitants with the assessors, May 4, 1813. 14. Payment of $1.33 to Joshua Prentiss for writing a bond for the collection of taxes, cash for carrying the return to the treasurer's office, and for postage of a letter to Ipswich, July 30, 1812. 15. Certification by the assessors, Joshua Prentiss, John Pedrick and Joseph Swett, that Nathaniel K. Devereux was due the amount of $378.80 for collecting taxes for 1810, dated November 28, 1812. 16. Payment of $64.50 to the Estate of Joseph Swett, deceased, for 42 days' service as assessor from May 4, 1818, to January 14, 1819. Signed by Joseph Cloutman. 17. Payment of $2.25 to Richard Homan for examining and correcting lists of taxes from 1812 to 1818, dated March 1819. 18. Payment of $66 to John Bailey for 44 days' service as assessor, April 27 to September 29, 1819. 19. Payment of $75 to Richard Homan for 34 days' service as assessor, 4-1/2 days settling Captain Hiddens lists of taxes, and 11-1/2 days for abatements and correcting lists of voters, dated March 1, 1819. 20. Payment of $76.50 to John Sparhawk for 51 days' service as assessor for the year 1817. 21. Payment of $92.14 to Joshua Prentiss for 49-1/2 days' service as assessor, for carrying votes to the Secretary's Office, and for recording 93 deaths, dated March 1, 1813. 22. Payment of $77.25 to Joseph Swett for 51-1/2 days' service as assessor, dated March 2, 1818. 23. Payment of $2.25 to John Pedrick for examining and correcting Joshua Prentiss's several lists of taxes from 1812 to 1818. 24. Payment of $76.70 to John Pedrick for 35 days' service as assessor, 4-1/2 days settling Captain Hidden's lists of taxes, 11-1/2 days for abatements and correcting lists of voters, and for cash paid to Mr. Cass to carry a letter to the State Treasurer, dated March 1, 1819. 25. Payment of $76.50 to Joseph Swett for 51 days' service as assessor in 1816. 26. Payment of $63 to Richard Homan for 42 days' service as assessor in 1817. 27. List of town, county and state taxes, dated October 23, 1813, and prepared by Thomas Calley, Collector of Taxes for 1813. Signed by Joshua Prentiss, Joseph Swett and John Pedrick, Assessors. 28. Written report to the committee appointed to examine the mode of assessing and collecting taxes, expenditure of monies collected, and to devise and recommend any alteration and improvement of same. Signed by Nathan B. Martin, Joseph Wilson and John Hooper, committee members. 29. Letter by Assessors Joshua Prentiss, Joseph Swett and John Pedrick, addressed to Nathaniel Wade, Esquire, and dated January 3, 1815, relating that Thomas Calley, Collector of Taxes, reported losing his "pocket book" enroute to Ipswich which contained taxes collected in the amount of $1,700, that he was also deficient in the amount collected by $3,000, and that the town was now obliged to find another way to raise the taxes due to the state and county. |
Subjects |
Assessors Tax reform |
Date |
1810 |
Year Range from |
1810 |
Year Range to |
1819 |
Catalog date |
2022-03-01 |
People |
Appleton, Thomas Bailey, John Bailey, Russell Bond, John Calley, Thomas Cloutman, Joseph Devereux, Nathaniel K. Homan, Richard, Jr. Hooper, John James, Richard Martin, Nathan B. Palfrey, Warwick Pedrick, John Prentiss, Joshua Sparhawk, John Swett, Jane Swett, Joseph Wade, Nathaniel Wilson, Joseph |
Search Terms |
Old Town records |
Lexicon category |
10: Unclassifiable Artifacts |
Lexicon sub-category |
Need to Classify |
Collection |
Gosling Collection |
Condition Notes |
As these papers were collected over a period of 10 years and were stored in various unknown buildings and places were retrieved and sorted by volunteers in 1965 (about 100 years or more after they were made) and remained apparently undisturbed since then the papers we have are in good condition. |