Tax list data for Salem — tax_comparison • salem

A dataset containing tax list data for Salem, MA, 1681-1700. Payments are in shillings (converted from original records). Petition refers to Pro-Parris, Anti-Parris and No Signature. Data are in long format with one record per person per year, while the original data was in wide format with a variable for each year. 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. This data set includes more years of tax records than salem_village.

tax_comparison

Format

A data frame with 200 rows and 5 variables:

Name: Name of the tax payer
Petition: Stance on Petition
Year: Year of payment
Tax: Tax paid
Sort: ID from original data set

Source

https://www.tulane.edu/~salem/Tax%20Comparison%20Data%20Set.html