Civil War Tax List of Arlington (West Cambridge), Massachusetts, 1863

This list of taxpayers of Arlington, Massachusetts, was compiled after the following vote, as written in the opening pages of this bound tax list.

"Voted = That no assessment be made upon any person for less than two dollars. And that an amount be assessed upon each resident tax-payer equal to one-tenth part of the amount of said person's tax from State, County, and Town purposes for the year 1863. As a War Tax."

The War Tax was assessed to "defray expenses incurred by the town's Selectmen in recruiting and the quota of troops assigned to West Cambridge..."

The database contains names, amount assessed, amount paid, and remarks, such as, "mad & will not pay anything" (Amos Adams); "wishes to investigate the subject" (Lewis P. Bartlett); "son in the army" (Susan L. Crane); "alien but willing to help the cause" (Patrick Finton); and "go to hell" (Nathaniel Johnson).

The original tax list is part of the R. Stanton Avery Collections, call number SL ARL 16.

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