1797, Dudley, Mass; manuscript, assessors tax book, report to selectmen signed

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1797, Dudley, Mass; manuscript, assessors tax book, report to selectmen signed :
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This is a wonderful, original manuscript dated 1797, Dudley, Massachusetts, where the assessors have furnished and signed a tax bill for the west end of the town. This 14 page, manuscript ledger is 6x7, featuring several freeholders and the taxes paid...signed in page 13 by assessors James Wolcot, John Healy, Ephraim Willard, Jephthah Bacon and William Healy.Nicely penned, in overall very good condition.

Dr. James Walcott (1755-1830) son of William Walcott, Jr. and Esther Foster, was born on 4 Nov 1754 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, died on 14 Sep 1830 in Quechee, Windsor, Vermont at age 75, and was buried in Hilltop Cemetery, Quechee, Windsor, Vermont.

General Notes: JAMES was a doctor, and a surgeon in the Revolutionary War. He is called \"of Woodstock\" in his marriage intentions of 28 Dec. 1778, and shortly after was living at Dudley, Massachusetts. In 1790 he was at Dudley with a family consisting of 1 male over 16, 2 males under 16, and 4 females. He moved to Queechy, Vermont, in 1826. He usually spelled his name \"Wolcott\", as have most of his descendants.

WILLIAM HEALY(NATHANIEL4, JOSHUA3, NATHANIEL2, WILLIAM1)79was born August 09, 1764 in Dudley, Worcester Co., Massachusetts, and died October 01, 1850. He married PRUDENCE LYON June 10, 1788. She was born 1766 of Woodstock, Windham Co., Connecticut, and died of consumption July 09, 1843 in Dudley, Worcester Co., Massachusetts - age 76 y 9 m 17 d. They owned a farm on Healy Road which was still a high grade farm in 1913. Deacon William Healy was for many years Deacon of the Congregational Church of Dudley, and a very highly respected citizen.

JephthahBacon,was remarkable for his general intelligence and practical wisdom. Though not a lawyer professionally, he was more familiar with the theory and practice of the law than many of its active practitioners. His services were in general and constant demand,both in public and general business. As a correct draftsman of deeds, agreements, and legal instruments; and as a safe counsellor, he was almost unequalled by any man in the Southern part of Worcester County. For many years his time was chiefly occupied with legal business. He was a justice of the peace, noted for the prudence and equity of his procedure, and often retained by the town on matters requiring legal knowledge.

Politically, he was a genuine Federalist, and representedDudleyin the General Court. When it was decided by vote to hold the Hartford Convention, he was one of the Federalists that cast their votes against it; and assigned as the reason for his dissent the fact that the regularly constituted authorities of his country had declared war, and that it must be fought out, and that in his opinion, men of all parties ought to sustain the Government, and to take no action that might embarrass it, or tend to give aid and comfort to the enemy. He was an American citizen, first, and a partisan second. None was more patriotic than he, although he could not, in all things, approve the policy of the national administration.

In this particular, he was a worthy exemplar to all his countrymen –an exemplar that many excellent men did not hesitate to follow in the troublous times of the late civil war. They conscientiously held the political principles which constitute the bond of union to the Democratic party; but when the Southern members of that party conspired to destroy the Federal Union, they at once denounced them as enemies, and aided as heartily in putting down the rebellion as did their political antagonists.

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