Background on Creator:
Greenwich was among the Western Massachusetts towns abolished in 1938 to allow the Swift River Valley to be flooded, thereby creating the Quabbin Reservoir to provide Boston with water.
Scope of collection
The collection includes demands and receipts (1804-1809) for taxes (parish, highway, town, county, and state) on various tracts of land in Greenwich, Massachusetts owned by Dr. William and Eleanor Porter, as well as three items (1800-1808) regarding the settling of accounts with local individuals (Ichabod Trandell [Grandall?], James Mills, and Isaac Hunter) and an agreement (1807?) to sell pasture land to Captain West of Greenwich.
Administrative information
Access
The collection is open for research.
Provenance
Acquired from Donald Howe, 1960.
Processing Information
Processed by Linda Seidman, 1985.
Language:
EnglishAcknowledgments
Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Copyright and Use (More information )
Cite as: William and Eleanor Porter Tax Records and Accounts (MS 91). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
Search terms
Subjects
- Greenwich (Mass.)--Economic conditions--19th century--Sources.
- Greenwich (Mass.)--Taxation--History--19th century--Sources.
- Hampshire County (Mass.)--Economic conditions--19th century--Sources.
- Hampshire County (Mass.)--Taxation--History--19th century--Sources.
- Landowners--Massachusetts--Greenwich--Economic conditions--19th century--Sources.
- Local taxation--Massachusetts--History--19th century--Sources.
- Pastures--Prices--Massachusetts--History--19th century--Sources.
- Porter, Eleanor, landowner--Finance, Personal.
- Porter, William, landowner--Finance, Personal.
- Quabbin Reservoir Region (Mass.)--Economic conditions--19th century.
- Real property tax--Massachusetts--History--19th century--Sources.
Contributors
- Porter, William [main entry]
- Porter, Eleanor
- Porter, Eleanor, landowner.
