A dataset containing tax list of everyone who appeared on the tax assessment rolls for 1690, 1695, and 1697. This is a "a good, though imperfect, indicator of the village's adult male population" plus some widows (and excluding young men who were not independent).

salem_village

Format

A data frame with 137 rows and 5 variables:

Name

Name of taxpayer (may be a family)

Petition

Did this person sign either the pro- or anti-Parris petition in 1695

Church.to.1696

Was the person a member of any church through 1696

Sort

ID from original data set

Source

https://www.tulane.edu/~salem/Salem%20Village%20Data%20Set.html

Details

May be merged with the tax_comparison data set based on name matching, but care should be taken to review and make judgements about matching.