COLUMBIA TOWNSHIP
ASSESSMENT ROLLS
1839
    The assessment-roll of the townships of South Haven for the year 1839 shows that the resident taxpayers in township No. 1 south, of range No. 15 west, their location of lands, number of acres owned, and value of real and personal estate were as follows.

   Silas Breed, section 33, 80 acres:  aggregate of real and personal estate, $1090;  saw-mill $700
    Elijah Knowles, section 32, 160 acres; aggregate of real and personal estate, $720
    Hervey Manley, section 29, 240 acres; aggregate of real and personal estate $770
    Jonathan N. Howard, sections 19, 28, 240 acres;  aggregate of real and personal estate, $705
    J.M. Babbitt, sections 1, 33, 160 acres; aggregate of real and personal estate, $515
    Myron Hoskins, sections 26, 32, 33, 880 acres;  aggregate of real and personal estate  $880
    Leonard Watson, section 33, 40 acres; aggregate of real and personal estate, $140
    Amos S. Brown, section 32, 160 acres;  aggregate of real and personal estate, $765
    Luman Brown, section 32, 80 acres;  aggregate of real and personal estate, $240
    Jephtha Waterman, section 35, 69 acres;  aggregate of real and personal estate, $162
    Horace Humphrey, section 1, 40 acres;  aggregate of real and personal estate, $120
    Joseph Peck,* section 1, 80 acres;  aggregate of real and personal estate, $240
    D.C. Ackley, section 29, 80 acres;  aggregate of real and personal estate, $240

*Joseph Peck, of "Pecktown," was a resident of the township of Bloomingdale, section 6, but owned land on section 1, in this township.

    Other names added to the rolls in 1840 were those of William A. Babbitt, Henry Babbitt, and Dustin Murch, and the total amount of taxes paid by the residents in that year was $30.23.
 
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