Vermont AHGP
Part of the American History and
Genealogy Project
Grand Lists 1802 - 1812
New names appear in the list from year to year, 1802
1802
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Welcome Ainsworth Hannah Butterfield Joseph Ginnings Thomas Haskell Nathan Janes Uriah Johnson George Kelton James Kelton |
Amasa Parley Calvin Pearce Joseph Perry William Thayer Amasa Wareham Isaac Wells Medad Wright |
1803
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Ezra Bliss James Dawson William Drown John Eddy |
Artemas Foster Joseph W. Oilman John Martin John Ware |
1804
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Benjamin Andrews Chester Clark Isaac Davis Eliphalet Huntington |
Enoch Kelton Nathaniel Ladd James Short |
1805
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Luther Ainsworth Amasa Bancroft John Bancroft Squire Bullock Ethan Powers Prince Sears |
Oliver Shipley Bucklin Slayton Amos Wheelock Reubin Wilber Philip Vincent |
1806
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Jacob Ainsworth Benjamin Bancroft Amos Barnes. George Brown John Goodale Phineas Goodenough |
Ebenezer Goodenough Jr. George Ide Ephraim Ladd Richard Pitts Jonathan Pray Cyrenus Shortt |
1807
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Vial Allen Thomas Anderson Charles Bliss Stephen Bates Henry Fish David Fuller Jr. Martin Gilbert Jessa Holmes Pardon Janes Elijah Nye |
Stephen Olmstead Samuel Pratt Phineas Slayton Uriah Simons Reubin D. Waters Nathan Wheeler Jared Wheelock Suel White Daniel Young John Young |
1808
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Thomas Andrews Galen Bliss Charles Bliss Moses Blanchard William Crosby Thomas Foster Abraham Hawkins |
William Lougee John McKenzie Samuel Robinson Isaac Robinson William Robinson John Waugh Almond Wilber |
1809
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Nathaniel Bancroft John R. Densmore Jonathan Green Jonas Hall Isaac Hawkins Barnabas Kelton Ebenezer Kelton |
John Martin Jr. Daniel Nealey Peleg Redway Oliver Shipley Jr. Lemuel Tobey Isaac Vincent Welcome Wheelock |
The lists for 1810 and 11 are not preserved.
1812
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Smith Ainsworth George Brown Ira Brown Isaac Corey Jabez Carver John Cate John Chapman Salvin D. Collins Israel Dwinell Gload Dugar Nathaniel Davis Jonathan Eaton Luther Farnum |
Luke Fletcher Benjamin Gray Simeon Guernsey Seth Gary Salathiel Hammond George Holbrook. Ona Kelton William LeBarron William LeBarron Jr. Andrew Nealey Beniah Shortt Henry Stone David G. Shipley |
Grand List Record For 1812
From 1801 there was a steady increase in valuation:
80 polls at $20, $1600; 1679 acres of improved land at $1.75,
2938; houses assessed in the whole at $182 ; 112 oxen at $10,
$1120; 405 cows and other cattle of 3-years old at $6.50,
2632.50; 178 cattle of 2-years old at $5, $890; 101 horses of 3
years old, and upwards, at $13.50, $1363.50; 10 of 2 years old
at $6.50, $65 ; 16 of 2 year old at $3.50, $56; 7 house clocks
at $10, $70; 3 gold watches at $10, $30; 12 common clocks at $5,
$60; 2750 dollars of money on hand and debts due, at 6 per
cent., $165; 1 practitioner assessed at $25; mechanics and
owners of mills and machines assessed in the whole at $143;
total, $11340.
Deduct for 5 minors subject to military duty and equipped by parents at $20, $100; deduct 54 militia polls at $20, $1080 ; deduct 5 horses of cavalry at $13.50, $67.50; leaving list for State taxes, $10092.50
At that time the law required that all dwellings, stores and shops (log-houses excepted) should be assessed at two per cent, of their value, if in the judgment of the listers their value did not exceed $1000. And if valued at more than $1000, at three per cent. The law also specified how personal property should be set in the list, as above. Wooden clocks were not taxed. Attorneys, physicians, merchants, mechanics, etc., were assessed in proportion to their gains.
Source: History of Washington County Vermont, Collated and Published by Abby Maria Hemenway, 1882.
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