Angell, Charles (ca. 1750-1800) [Notice of assessment]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01450.446.15 Author/Creator: Angell, Charles (ca. 1750-1800) Place Written: Scituate, Rhode Island Type: Document signed Date: no date Pagination: 1 p. ; 6.7 x 21.3 cm. Order a Copy
Notice instructing Timothy Hopkins to present "to Samuel Brown, Principal Assessor for this district, a list truly stating the value of your household furniture, (excepting therefrom, beds, bedding, kitchen furniture, family pictures, and articles made in the family from domestic materials) and the number and description of watches kept for use, by you or by any one of your family. The penalty by law, for neglect in this behalf, is one hundred dollars." Possibly created circa 1750-1800; ancestral records for Scituate contain various persons with the names Charles Angell, Samuel Brown, or Timothy Hopkins through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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