During the Administration of Sir Edmund Andros
and his Council,
1686-1689.
Compiled by EDWARD FIELD, A.B.,
Member of the Rhode Island Historical Society, and one of the
Record Commissioners of the City of Providence.
Cloth. Octavo. 60 pp. $1.00, net.
The “Tax Lists of the Town of Providence” is a compilation of original documents relating to taxation during the Administration of Sir Edmund Andros and his Council, 1686-1689. It comprises copies of warrants issued by order of the Council for the assessment and collection of taxes, the tax lists or rate bills prepared pursuant to these warrants, the returns made by the townsmen of their ratable property, and the Tax Laws enacted by Andros and his Council. All of these, with the exception of the laws, are here printed for the first time.
Among the rate bills is the list of polls for 1688, which contains the names of all males sixteen years of age and upwards living in Providence in August of that year; practically a census of the town. For the genealogist and historian this volume contains material of the greatest value on account of the great number of names which these lists contain, besides showing the amount of the tax assessment in each case.