Guilford tax lists collection, 1690-1993 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Microfilm and photocopies of original tax lists (1690-1863, incomplete) in the collections of the New York Historical Society, Connecticut State Library, Yale University, Henry Whitfield State Museum, and Town of Guilford; notebook #1: includes photocopies of Town of Guilford, Conn., Selectmen's ledger (1783, 1786) and tax lists (1790, 1793, 1795, 1796, 1799, 1803, 1811, and 1814, obtained by State Librarian from secondhand book dealers, and typed list index to those lists completed by Grace E. Carver (1925); notebook #2: includes photocopies of tax lists (1794, 1797, 1798, 1799, 1818) copied from Henry Whitfield State Museum collections, correspondence (1987-1993) between Dorothy Y. Armistead and Beverly Anderson, museum curators, and Malcolm Freiberg, editor of publications at Massachusetts Historical Society regarding the Henry Whitfield House, Whitfield-Jordan relationship, and Dorothy Whitfield, widow of Henry, and tax lists (1714, 1733, 1737), photocopied from collection at Yale University; and notebook #3: includes 29 photocopied pages of handwritten, alphabetized lists of taxpayers and listers in the 1st and 4th societies in Guilford for the years 1795 and 1797