Norridgewock Taxpayers, 1803

Source: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 97 (Boston, Mass.: The Society, 1943).

Forenames and surnames have been switched to facilitate searching.

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Norridgewock, Maine, Taxpayers in 1803

A small, home-made book, 7½ by 4 inches, of single sheets sewn together, in the possession of Miss Edith Webster Mank of Lawrence, Mass., lists the poll taxpayers and property owners in the town of Norridgewock, Maine, for the year 1803. The book was the official record of Ephraim Lindsey, great, great, great grandfather of Miss Mank, he having been the tax collector of the town at different times. The following is the list of taxpayers, with the number of assessable polls in

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each family, and the total amount of tax paid (including poll, real estate and personal property), being the assessed school tax for the year 1803, the assessors for that year being Josiah Spaulding and William Silvester:

Abel Adams, 1, $1.03 Abraham Adams, 1, $1.49 Amos Adams, 2, $3.52 Amos Adams, Jr., 1, $1.95 Edmund Adams, 1, $1.13 William Adams, 1, $1.38 Moses Bette, 1, $.94 Henry Bigford, 1, $1.50 James Bigford, 1, $2.77 Solomon Bixby, 1, $4.64 John Brown, 1, $1.62 John Clark, 2, $5.44 John Clark, Jr., 1, $1.34 James Colman, 1, $1.16 Samuel Cook, 2, $3.28 David Crosby, 1, $1.25 John Davingport, 1, $1.65 John Davingport, Jr., 1, $1.58 Thomas Densmore, 1, $1.17 Ezkell Emerson, 1, $.94 Samuel Emery, 1, $2.33 Charles Fairbrother, 1, $1.12 Lovel Fairbrother, 2, $3.79 Ralph Farnham, 1, $.94 William Farnham, 1, $2.30 Peter Farnsworth, 2, $3.83 Robert Forbes, 1, $1.18 Dotr Zebn Gilman, 1, $2.57 Peter Gilman, 1, $2.53 Richard Gilman, 1, $1.01 Jonas Gould, 1, $1.29 Moriah Gould, _, $.65 Isaac Harden, 2, $2.89 John Harlow, Esq., 1, $1.87 Josiah Heald, 2, $6.23 Josiah Heald, Jr., 1, $.94 Capt. Benja Hinds, 1, $1.86 Nimrod Hinds, 1, $2.05 Benja Holden, 1, $1.27 Samuel Holden, 1, $1.72 Samuel Jewet, 1, $1.37 Majr Wm. Jones, 1, $4.64 Thomas Jones, 1, $2.02 Isaac Kidder, 2, $4.19 Samuel Laird, 1, $1.29 David Lancaster, 3, $5.71 Ebenezer Lancaster, 1, $1.36 John Laughton, 1, $1.94 Ephraim Lindsay, 1, $1.98 Lt. Asa Longley, 1, $2.59 Benja Longley, 1, $2.56 Zachariah Longley, Jr., 2, $2.25 Phenehas Mcintire, 1, $1.79 Abraham Moor, 1, $2.11 Abraham Moor, 1, $2.75 Benja Moore, 3, $3.96 Abijah Nutting, 1, $1.93 Jonah Nutting, 1, $2.20 Edmund Parker, 2, $3.51 Eleazer Parlin, 1, $2.03 Lt. Jonas Parlin, 2, $4.12 Jonas Parlin, Jr., 1, $.94 Nathan Parlin, 2, $3.85 David Partman, 1, $1.25 John Pattin, 1, $1.70

Joseph Pattin, 1, $.94 David Pierce, Jr., _, $.43 Capt. Simon Pierce, 1, $3.03 Isaac Powers, 1, $1.72 Dotr Pratt, 1, $.94 David Prence, 1, $1.30 Thadeus Prentice, 2, $.2.18 Robert Richard, 1, $1.90 Benja Richardson, 1, $1.18 Samuel Richards, 1, $1.67 Isaac Robins, 1, $1.15 Jonathan Robins, 1, $1.76 Luke Robins, 1, $2.41 David Russell, 1, $1.18 Levi Samson, 1, $2.15 Isaac Savage, 1, $1.26 Richard Sawtel, 1, $.94 William Silvester, 1, $2.59 John Smith, 1, $1.24 John Smith, Jr., 1, $1.03 Samuel Smith, 2, $1.99 Asher Spaulding & Co., $5.51 Lt. Elear Spaulding, 1, $2.20 Lt. Elear Spaulding, Jr., 1, $2.50 John Spaulding, 1, $2.07 Ithamor Spaulding, 1, $1.82 Josiah Spaulding, 1, $3.22 Josiah Spaulding, Jr., 1, $2.23 Samuel Spaulding, 1, $1.30 Seth Spaulding, 1, $2.24 William Spaulding, Jr., 2, $6.25 John Squire, 1, $1.48 ______ Stevens, 1, $.94 Daniel Steward, 2, $5.20 John Steward, 1, $2.33 Martin Stitson, 1, $.94 Joseph Tarbell, 2, $3.93 Benja Thompson, 1, $1.59 Dotr Asaph Thompson, 1, $1.94 William Thompson, 1, $1.68 Joseph Titcomb, 1, $1.61 Capt. Asa Turner, 1, $1.79 Joseph Vickere, 1, $2.03 John Ware, 2, $11.14 Edmund Warren, 2, $2.48 Josiah Warren, 2, $3.02 Stephen Weston, 1, $2.20 William Weston, 2, $3.91 Charles Wetherell, 1, $1.74 Majr Obadh Wetherell, 2, $4.55 Charles Whitcomb, 1, $2.88 Nathaniel Whitcomb, 1, $.94 Robert Whitcomb, 1, $1.55 Thomas Whitcomb, 2, $1.88 Asa Whiting, 1, $1.80 Silvanus Whiting, 1, $1.46 John Whitman, 1, $1.31 Samuel Whitman, 2, $2.21 Daniel Williams, 1, $.94 Nathaniel Withee, 1, $2.15 Luke Withee, 2, $3.72 William Withee, 1, $2.15 Capt. Silas Wood, 2, $4.48 Thomas Wood, _, $.44 James Young, 1, $.94