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"A List of Polls and Rateable Estate Real & Personal, for the Town of Haverhill in the County of Essex, Taken in the year 1741. . . "¹(This page was created by Lin Wright and has been imported to this site with little modification.)

"By the running of the new line between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, in 1741, nearly one-third of the population, territory, and property of the town of Haverhill, fell to the north of the line. When to this is added the large portion set off for Methuen, in 1725, we find that more than one-half of its stock of all those elements which combine to make a first class New England town, had been taken from Haverhill within the short period of fifteen years. It was, indeed, a great change in its condition, and prospects, and must have been felt most seriously.

"Soon after the State line was run, the town instructed its selectmen to take an exact list of the polls and estates on the north side of the line, which was done.² '. . . This list contains only those living in that part if town that falls into N Hampshire Province according to Mr Mitchels Line.'

Spelling was retained from original list, arrangement was changed to alphabetical.

Adums, James, Jur.	Adums, James	Anderson, Samuel	Annis, Abraham
Atwood, John	Bartlet, Christopher, Capt.	Bartlet, Nathaniel	Beartoe, Joseph
Boyd, Arter	Bradlee, John	Bradlee, Jonathan	Brown, Samuel
Callis, William	Carlton, Edward, Jr.	Carlton, Richard	Chambers, William
Chase, Abraham	Cheney, Thomas	Christy, Peter	Christy, Thom
Clements, Obadiah	Coborn, Jonathan, Jur.	Coborn, Jonathan	Copp, David
Copp, Josiah	Copp, Moses	Crawfford, Thomas	Currier, John, Jur.
Currier, John	Davison, Thomas	Dow, John, Jur.	Dow, John
Dow, Peter	Dow, Timothy	Dusten, John	Dusten, Jonathan, Jur.
Earwine, Joseph	Easman, Peter	Easman, William	Eaton, Samuel
Emerson, Benjamin	Emerson, David	Emerson, Ephraim	Emerson, Roberd, Jur.
Emerson, Stephen, Jur.	Emerson, Timothy	Emery, Humphry	Emery, Jonathn
Flood, Richard	Follensby, Thomas	Ford, Roberd	Forsh, Askebell
French, John	Gatchell, Nathll	Gile, Sanuel	Gill, Ebenr
Gill, Joseph	Gill, Moses	Gilmore, James	Gilmore, Roberd
Gilmore, William	Gorden, Micael	Graves, James	Graves, Samuel
Hale, Edman	Hall, Thomas	Hancock, William	Harriman, Leonard, Jur.
Harriman, Leonard	Harriman, Mathew	Haseltine, Henry	Heath, Bartholomew
Heath, Benjamin	Heath, Caleb	Heath, David	Heath, James, Jur.
Heath, James	Heath, John, Jur.	Heath, John	Heath, Joseph, Jur.
Heath, Joseph	Heath, Josiah	Heath, Nathll	Heath, Nehemiah
Heath, Richard	Heath, Samuel	Heath, William	Herriman, Abner
Herriman, John	Herriman, Joseph	Hogg, John	Hogg, William
Horner, Thomas	Hunkins, John	Hutchens, Jonathan	Jackman, Moses
Johnson, Jonathan	Johnson, Micael	Johnson, Nathaniel, Jur.	Johnson, Stephen, Jur.
Johnson, Stephen	Johnson, Timothy	Johnson, William	Johnson, Zacariah
Keley, Alexander	Kent, John	Kezar, John	Kimball, Jonathn
Kimball, Samuel	Kimball, wid. Mary	Kinnicum, Askebell	Knight, Nathaniel
Little, Daniel	Little, George, Jur.	Little, George	Little, Joseph
Little, Samuel	Macfarten, James	Mackcafee, Daniel	Mackcafee, Heugh
Mackcafee, John	Mackcaster, John	Mackcurdy, Roberd	Mackfarten, Paul
Mackfortin, Walter	Mackmaster, William, Jur.	Mackmaster, William	Merrill, Jonathan
Merrill, Nathaniel	Miller, John	Mills, James	Morrison, Holbert
Muzzee, John	Noyse, Timothy	Page, Caleb	Page, Edmund
Page, Eliphalet	Page, Jonathan	Page, Joseph	Page, Timothy
Patee, Peter	Patee, Richard	Patee, Seth	Patterson, Samuel
Perry, Obadiah	Pettingall, Benjamin	Pike, Heugh	Pollord, John
Poor, Daniel	Pope, Thomas	Reddel, Robert	Richards, Benjamin
Roberds, Jonathan	Smiley, Francis	Smiley, Heugh	Smiley, John
Smith, Benajmin	Smith, John	Smith, Nathaniel	Smith, Samuel
Smith, Thomas	Stevens, John	Stevens, Jonathan, Jur.	Stevens, Jonathan
Stevens, Joseph, Jur.	Stevens, Moses	Stevens, Nathaniel	Stevens, Ortho
Stevens, Samuel, Jur.	Stevens, Samuel	Stevens, Wait	Stevens, William
Stinson, John	Stone, Benjamin	Trussel, Moses	Tucker, Lemuel
Tucker, Moses	Tucker, Nathll	Wackfarlee, Nathll	Watts, John
Webster, Israel	Webster, John	Webster, William	Wheler, Banjamin
Wheler, Jonathan	Wheler, Stephen	White, James	White, Nicolas, Capt.
Whitiker, Daniel	Whitiker, Jonathn	Worthen, Samuel, Jur.	Worthin, Samuel
Worthin, Thomas

"Following the list, is a certificate, signed by Joshua Bayley, Justice of the Peace, setting forth that the selectmen were duly sworn to perform the duty assigned them, on the 9^th of December, 1741.

"The relative extent and value of the portion which fell to New Hampshire on the settlement of the boundary line, may be seen from the following, which we copy from the last page of the above document:--"

	Without NH Line	Within the Line		Without NH Line	Within the Line
Heads	346	215	Houses	214	158
Mills	7	9	Mowing	1126	458
Planting	751	308	Pasture	723	152
Orchard	125 1/2	19	Negroes	10	2
Oxen	266	239	Cows	540	346
Horses	184	135	Swine	128	20

"The following list of names, includes all in that part of the town south of the new State line, and east of the West Parish line: or in other words, all those in what is now the First, the North, and the East Parishes.³ The are copied from a document, entitled

"The Town Rate for the East Part of Haverhill a List of That Part of the Tax made By the Assessors of Haverhill on December the 10 1741 for Benjamin Gale Constable and Collector of said Part of the town to Collect and pay into The Town Treasury"³

Appleton, Samuel	Ayer, David	Ayer, James	Ayer, John, Jur.
Ayer, Samuel	Ayer, Timothy	Ayer, William	Ayer,John
Badger, Joseph	Badger, Joseph, Jur.	Bartlet, Christopher, Capt.	Bartlet, Jonathan
Bartlet, Nathaniel	Bayley, Joshua, Coll.	Beartoe, Joseph	Belknap, Ebenezer
Belknap, Moses	Belknap, Obadiah	Black, James	Bly, James
Bond, Joseph	Boynton, John	Bradbery, Barnabas	Bradbery, James
Bradbery, John	Bradlee, John	Bradley, Daniel	Bradley, Isaac, Jur.
Bradley, William	Brown, Samuel	Bryant, Andrew	Buck, Ebenezer
Buck, Jonathan	Camball, Elexander	Chandler, Josiah	Chase, Abner
Chase, Abraham	Chase, Ezra	Chase, Humphrey	Chase, Jacob
Chase, John	Cheney, Thomas	Clement, John, Jur.	Clements, Benjamin
Clements, John	Clements, Moses	Clements, Obadiah	Clements, Samuel
Cogswell, John	Cogswell, Nathaniel	Colbey, Ebenezer	Colbey, Isaac
Colbey, Richard	Copp, Josiah	Currier, Caleb	Currier, Ruben
Dalton, Isaac	Davis, Daniel	Davis, Ephraim	Davis, John
Davis, John, Jun.	Davis, Moses	Davis, Robert	Davis, Samuel, Jur.
Davis, William	Diamond, Thomas	Dodg, David	Dow, John
Dow, Peter	Dow, Samuel	Dow, Stephen	Dow, Timothy
Duston, John	Duston, Samuel	Duston, Thomas	Earwine, Joseph
Eaton, Job	Eaton, Moses	Eaton, Samuel	Eaton, Timothy
Edwards, John	Edwards, Nathaniel	Ela, Daniel	Ela, Israel
Ela, Jacob	Ela, John	Ela, Samuel	Emerson, Daniel
Emerson, Ephraim	Emerson, Jabesh	Emerson, Joseph	Emerson, Mehitebal, widw
Emerson, Nehemiah	Emerson, Richard	Emerson, Robert	Emerson, Timothy
Flynt, Edward	Follensby, Thomas	Follensby, William	Foster, Abiel
French, John	Gage, John	Gale, Benjamin	Gatchell, Nathll
George, Gideon	George, John	George, William	Gile, Daniel
Gile, James	Gile, Samuel	Green, John	Green, Nathaniel
Green, Peter	Grelee, Benjamin	Grelee, Joseph, Jur.	Hale, Edmand
Handcock, William	Hanniford, Zachariah	Hardy, Timothy	Harriman, Abner
Harriman, Joseph	Harriman, Joshua	Harriman, Leonard	Harriman, Leonard, Jr.
Harriman, Matthew	Harriman, Richard	Harriman, Stephen	Haseltine, Benjamin
Haseltine, Henry	Haseltine, John	Haseltine, Jonathan	Haseltine, Jonathan, Jur.
Haseltine, Nathan	Haseltine, Timothy	Hastins, George	Hastins, Robert
Hastins, Robert, Jur.	Hazzen, Moses	Hazzen, Richard	Heath, Bartholomew
Heath, John, Jur.	Heath, Joseph	Heath, Joseph, Jur.	Heath, Josiah
Heath, Nehemiah	Heath, Samuel	Heath, William, Jur.	Heaton, John
Herrick, Daniel	Herriman, John	Holgate, James	Howard, John
Hunkins, Robert	Hunkins, Robert, Jur.	Hunkins, Thomas	Hunt, Samuel
Huse, Stephen	Hutchens, David	Jackman, Moses	Johnson, Cornelius
Johnson, Daniel	Johnson, Daniel, Jur.	Johnson, John	Johnson, Jonathan
Johnson, Joseph	Johnson, Marverick	Johnson, Nathaniel	Johnson, Nathaniel, Jur.
Johnson, Samuel	Johnson, Thomas	Johnson, Thomas	Johnson, William
Kelley, Joseph	Kelley, Joseph, Jur.	Kezer, Ebenezer	Kezer, John, Jur.
Kimball, Abner	Kimball, Abraham	Kimball, Mary, wid.	Kimball, Samuel
Knolton, Nathaniel	Little, Thomas	Little, Thomas	Lufkin, Jonathan
Marsh, David	Marsh, Jonathan	Mchard, James	Merrill, Nathan
Mingo, Thomas	Moody, Benjamin	Mores, William	Morgin, Moses
Morrowson, Bradbery	Morrowson, John	Mulikin, Joseph	Otterson, William
Page, Abraham	Page, Abraham, Jur.	Page, Cornelius	Page, Ezekiel
Page, Jeremiah	Page, Joshua	Page, Lewes	Page, Nathaniel
Palmer, Joseph	Pearson, James	Pearson, James, Jur.	Peaslee, Amos
Peaslee, Nathaniel	Peaslee, Robert	Pecker, Joh, Capt.	Pettingall, Benjamin
Phersen, Nathaniel	Pike, Heugh	Pollord, John	Rideout, Rowland
Roberds, Hannah, wid.	Roberts, Jonathan	Rowel, Philip	Saltonstall, Richard, Col.
Sanclar, George	Sanders, Jacob	Sanders, James	Sanders, John
Sanders, Nathaniel	Sawyer, John	Shepard, Jonathan	Shepard, Samuel
Simons, John	Simons, Jonathan	Simons, Nathan	Simons, Nathan, Jur.
Simons, Samuel	Smiley, Francis	Smiley, Heugh	Smiley, John
Smith, Nathaniel	Smith, Samuel	Smith, Samuel, Jur.	Springer, Henry
Springer, Jonathan	Stanwood, Philip	Stevens, Jonathan	Stevens, Moses
Steward, John	Stone, Benjamin	Sweat, John	Thompson, Edward
Toney, Robert	Townsend, William	Tucker, Nathaniel	Tyler, Jonathan
Tyler, Joseph	Walker, Nathaniel	Webster, Grant	Wells, John
White, John	White, John, Jur.	White, Nicolas, Capt.	White, Samuel
White, Samuel, Jur.	Whitiker, David	Whitiker, William	Whiting, David
Whiting, John	Whittier, Ebenezer	Whittier, Elizabeth, wid.	Whittier, Joseph
Whittier, Thomas	Willsom, John	Willson, Ezekiel	Willson, John, Jur.
Willson, Joseph	Willson, William	Woodman, Nathaniel	Woodward, Jacob
Wooster, Benjamin	Worthen, Samuel	Worthen, Thomas	Young, Israel

"We have not been able to find a list of the Polls in the West Parish, in 1741. The nearest we can get, is 1745. But as, in all probability, very few changes were made in that part of the town in the interim, and as we are now desirous to complete, as near as may be, a list of all the Polls in the town at this period of its history, we give below the names in that parish for 1745. They are as follows:--"⁴

Ayer, Jacob	Ayer, Peter, Decon	Ayer, Simon	Ayer, William, Doct
Bayley, Amos	Bayley, Ebenezer	Bayley, Humphrey	Bayley, Jeremiah
Bayley, Thomas, Lut	Bayley, William	Borman, William	Bradley, Joseph, Dec
Bradley, Neamiah	Brown, Ebenezar	Buck, John	Carleton, Edward, Cor
Carlton, Peter	Chase, Nathaniel	Clement, Nathaniel	Clement, Nathaniel, Jr.
Clement, Samuel	Cook, James	Corliss, John	Corliss, John, Jr.
Corliss, Joseph	Corliss, Thomas	Currier, Samuel	Duston, Jonathan
Duston, Nathaniel	Duston, Nathaniel, Jr.	Eatton, James	Eatton, Jonathan
Eatton, Thomas	Emerson, Ithamor	Emerson, John	Emerson, Jonathan
Emerson, Jonathan, Jr.	Emerson, Joseph, 4th	Emerson, Joseph, Jr.	Emerson, Joseph, tr.
Emerson, Mical	Emerson, Obadiah	Emerson, Peter	Emerson, Samuel
Emerson, Stephen	Emerson, Timothy	Emery, Joshua	Gage, Samuel
Gage, Stephen	Haines, Jonathan	Haines, Joseph	Haines, Thomas
Haseltine, James	Haseltine, John	Haseltine, Nathaniel	Hasltine, Philip, Capt
Hasltine, Samuel, Dec	Heseltine, Jeremiah	Heseltine, Joseph	Hilton, Benjamin
Hutchings, Joseph	Hutchings, Nathan	Hutchings, Samuel	Hutchings, Samuel, Jr.
Ingalls, Eldad	Kezzer, John	Ladd, Daniel, Ens	Ladd, Daniel, Jr.
Ladd, John, Ens	Ladd, Timothy	Marble, John	Marble, Jonathan
Marble, Nathaniel	Marble, Samuel	Marsh, Epheram	Merriel, Nathaniel
Merriel, Ruth, wido	Merrile, Joseph	Messer, Timothy	Mitchel, Andrew
Mitchel, James, Cap	Mitchel, John	Mitchel, Phillip	Mitchel, William
Nimock, James	Ordiway, Edward	Page, Thomas	Page, Thomas, Jr.
Patee, Beniamian	Silver, John	Silver, John, Jr.	Silver, Samuel
Smith, John	Standley, Mathew	Standley, Samuel	Stward, John
Varnon, Baracrah	Watts, John, Jr.	Watts, Samuel	Webster, Ebenezer
Webster, John, tr	Webster, Jonathan	Webster, Nathan	Webster, Nathaniel
Webster, Samuel	Webster, Stephen	Webster, Stephen, Jr.	Webster, Thomas
Whiteier, Samuel	Whiteier, Stephen	Williams, Daniel

1. George Wingate Chase, The History of Haverhill, Massachusetts, 1861, reprinted 1997. pp. 310-312
2. "The immediate cause which prompted this action, was the fact that those on the north side of the line refused to pay taxes any longer to Haverhill,--or even those of the current year."
3. George Wingate Chase, The History of Haverhill, Massachusetts, 1861, reprinted 1997. pp. 312-314
4. George Wingate Chase, The History of Haverhill, Massachusetts, 1861, reprinted 1997. pp. 314-315

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