mums091 Dr. William and Eleanor Porter Tax Records and Accounts, 1800-1809 Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by Linda Seidman. Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst 2002

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 Finding aid encoded using Perl scripts and edited in XMetal 2.0. Encoded by Eric Cartier. 2002-04-22 Finding aid written in English. 2005-09-23 mu109 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02-5c.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst Dr. William and Eleanor Porter Tax Records and Accounts, 1800-1809 Finding Aid Manuscript Number 91 Compiled by Linda Seidman November 1985 Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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 Collection Overview Porter, William Porter, Eleanor Dr. William and Eleanor Porter Tax Records and Accounts 1800-1809 MS 91 1 folder (0.25 linear ft.) Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst Residents of Greenwich, Massachusetts. Collection includes demands and receipts for taxes (parish, highway, town, county, and state) on various tracts of land that they owned, as well as three items regarding the settling of accounts with local individuals and an agreement to sell pasture land. English. Biographical Note

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 and Contents of the 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.

The collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

Cite as: William and Eleanor Porter Tax Records and Accounts (MS 91). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Acquired from Donald Howe, 1960.

Processed by Linda Seidman, 1985.

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