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- GLC#
- GLC04402
- Type
- Broadsides, posters & signs
- Date
- April 10, 1786
- Author/Creator
- Ivers, Thomas, ?-1800
- Title
- [Massachusetts document assessing a tax]
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 42.5 cm, Width: 32.8 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
A copy for the selectmen or assessors of the town of Gorham, Massachusetts. Signed by Thomas Ivers as Treasurer and Receiver-General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Docketed on verso: "Treasurer Warrant for Assessing 1037:19/ March 1786. Select Men or Assessors of Gorham. Rec'd. May 3rd 1786." Associated with the series of burdensome tax laws which led to Shay's Rebellion.
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