The Joseph Dow trunk archive · Document gallery 72

Lot 3H: Hampton taxes, fines and household accounts

22 photographs · 7 document groups

Photographed by Whit from the recovered Joseph Dow collection. Descriptions draw on visible names, dates and subjects; uncertain readings remain provisional. Reading copies are turned upright, and each image links to the unchanged full-resolution original.

JDT-D546 · The account book’s worn covers and inserted leaves

The Lot 3H label introduces a small book with a heavily abraded marbled cover. Early openings show lists, figures and a narrow inserted slip. The layers of paper and changing orientation indicate a working book assembled and reused over time.

4 photographs

JDT-D547 · Hampton taxes and fines, 1818–1819

Pages headed Hampton list named residents, tax years, fines and amounts received. Entries refer back to earlier years as well as the current heading, so a page date is not the date of every underlying charge. Cross-references and small sums reveal the practical work of collecting and reconciling accounts.

3 photographs

JDT-D548 · Outstanding taxes and small payments

A heading for taxes and fines carries the record through 1818–1819, with individual names and occasional notes of payment. Cancellations and rewritten amounts help distinguish a collector’s working list from a clean final statement.

2 photographs

JDT-D549 · Accounts carried forward to 1820–1821

Dated Hampton and June 1821 headings introduce further lists of residents and tax amounts. Some entries cover more than one year. The pages show how obligations accumulated and were carried across successive collection periods.

3 photographs

JDT-D550 · Notes, household names and a separate reckoning

The book shifts between a dated note involving Samuel Leavitt and Reuben Philbrick, lists of names and shorter arithmetic. These entries should not all be assumed to be tax receipts. Their juxtaposition demonstrates the broader usefulness of a pocket account book for financial memoranda.

3 photographs

JDT-D551 · A multi-column assessment list

A largely ruled leaf is followed by name-and-amount tables with several adjacent columns. Batchelder, Brown, Dow, Marston, Tuck and other local surnames are visible. Column headings must be read with the figures before assigning each amount to a particular tax or assessment.

3 photographs

JDT-D552 · Reverse-direction notes and arithmetic

The final pages include inverted writing, a short memorandum and calculations on leaves used from the opposite direction. Turning the reading copies upright makes them easier to consult while the unchanged originals preserve the book’s actual orientation and reuse.

4 photographs

Collection photographs supplied by Whit. Descriptions are finding aids, not full transcriptions. Names, dates and associations remain provisional where the handwriting is uncertain.