Middletown, Newport County Rhode Island

Municipal Year Book of the Town of Middletown Rhode Island 1909-1910

Printed in Newport, R. I., by The Mercury Publishing Company, 1909. [It actually begins with July 1908.]

Valuation and Tax List
Tax Assessment of May, 1909

Page 47-8: The undersigned, Assessors of Taxes in and for the Town of Middletown, in the State of Rhode Island etc., duly elected thereto and sworn, having given notice that on Tuesday, the twenty-fifth day of May,, A. D. 1909, at twelve o'clock, noon, we would assess the Town Tax ordered to be levied and assessed on the ratable property of said Town, at the annual Town Meeting of the qualified electors thereof, duly notified and legally held therein, on the seventh day of April, A. D. 1909, on the persons, corporations, estates and property liable therefor, and taxable under the laws of said State, and that we would meet and be in session at the Town Hall in said Middletown, on Wednesday, the twenty-sixth day of May, 1909 on Thursday, the twenty-seventh, and on Friday, the twenty-eighth days of said month of May, 1909, from 10 o'clock A. M., to four o'clock P. M., for the purpose of receiving a true and exact account of all the ratable property of every person, corporation and estate liable to taxation in said Middletown, under the laws of said State, and which notice was published for three successive weeks and four times, both in the Newport Daily News and Newport Mercury, and printed copies thereof posted in more than three public places in said Middletown, and for more than three weeks next preceding the twenty-fifth day of May, A. D. 1909, and having held meetings as provided and specified in said notice, on the twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth days of said month of May, A. D. 1909, at the Town Hall in said Middletown, and been in session on each of said days, from 10 o'clock A. M., to four o'clock P. M., and heard all persons appearing and desiring to be heard in the premises, and received all accounts of ratable property presented and directed to the undersigned, as Assessors of Taxes as aforesaid, have, pursuant to the said order and vote of the qualified electors of said Town of Middletown, passed on the seventh day of April, A. D. 1909, and of the power and authority conferred upon us by the laws of said State, assessed, as of the twenty-fifth day of May, A. D. 1909, at twelve o'clock noon, a town tax upon the following-named persons, corporations and estates, at and after the rate of sixty-five cents on each one hundred dollars of their ratable property as found and valued by us, to which assessment and every part thereof, we hereby certify as true and just, according to the best of our knowledge, information and belief.

As witness our hands at the end of this said assessment of tax, signed thereto, this sixteenth day of June, A. D. Nineteen Hundred and Nine.

Note. The names of those tax-payers included in the following list, who presented an account of their ratable estate and made oath to the truth thereof before the Assessors, are marked with an asterisk, thus (*).

[Click on a page number below to go to a full list of the names. From there you can access a scanned image of the original page by clicking on the page link.]

Pages 49 to 82

Page 49: Arthur Albro - Albert Anthony Page 51: Richard Ashhurst - Kate Bailey Page 53: James H. Barker - Daniel Brinley Page 55: William L. Brown - Charles Caswell Page 57: Henry I. Chase - David Coggeshall Page 59: Barker Building Company - The Pennsylvania [Insurance] Company Page 61: Agnes Dalziell - Sarah H. DeBlois Page 63: Mary M. Emery - Isabella Gray Page 65: Isaac S. Hazard - James T. Kaull Page 67: William P. Manchester - Mary A. Moriarty Page 69: Newport Water Works - Frank A. Paquin Page 71: Edward E. Peckham - Joseph A. Peckham Page 73: Agnes Perry - Herbert T. Sheffield Page 75: Joe Silva - Clinton G. Smith Page 77: Isaac E. Smith - Frederick B. Spooner Page 79: W. Cannon Swan - Stephen H. Underwood Page 81: Charles H. Ward - Benjamin Wyatt

Page 50: Albert Anthony - Frances Arnold Page 52: Mary S. Bailey - James H. Barker Page 54: Paul Brosig - Spencer F. Brown Page 56: John H. Caswell - Harriet B. Chase Page 58: Elizabeth W. Coggeshall - Barker Building Company Page 60: The Pennsylvania Company - Ida A. Currier Page 62: Jose S. Dechaves - Mary F. Ellis Page 64: Mary M. Greason - George B. Hazard Page 66: John S. Kimber - Phebe E. T. Manchester Page 68: Mary A. Moriarty - Newport Water Works Page 70: James W. Parker - Edward E. Peckham Page 72: Joseph A. Peckham - Jose Pereira Page 74: William Paine Sheffield - Frank Rose Silva Page 76: Clinton G. Smith - Howard Smith Page 78: Frederick B. Spooner - Guilherma Sueira Page 80: Stephen H. Underwood - Byron W. Ward Page 82: Edward N. Wyatt - Albert C. Young

ALDEN P. BARKER,              }
WILLIAM S. COGGESHALL,} Assessors
J. WILLIS PECKHAM,           }       of
ALVIN P. SMITH,                  }    Taxes
DENNIS J. MURPHY,            }

Middletown Poll Tax List for 1909
List of persons assessed for poll tax for the current year 1909, under the provisions of Chapter 4 of the General Laws of this State.

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Albert W. Adams Edmund A. Albro Henry Allen Robert T. S. Allen William N. Almy Christian Beck Anderson Joseph M. Anthony Charles E. Ash Jr. James Bailey Clarence E. Barker George Ernest M. Barker Stephen C. Barker Francis J. Bennett Matthew Bettencourt Charles G. Boyd Eugene I. Brown Harry J. Butler Chester A. Carr Daniel Chase George R. Chase 2d Joseph D. Chase Richard H. Chase John L. Conley Henry H. Copeland Charles Crandall Clayton E. Delamater John Dring 2d Philip Dring Jr. Robert W. Duson Laurence A. Goffe Clairmont L. Grinnell	Crawford P. Hart Ralph Marshall Hazard Samuel W. Heath William Heath Atmore Honeywell Garfield Lane Everett P. Littlefield George E. Loughman John W. McCartney Zachariah Milbourne John C. Molden Edward Moore Raymond A. Paul John F. Peabody Jr. Restcom E. Peabody Christopher S. Peckham Julian Francis Peckham William T. Peckham John H. Perry John Randolph John L. Ray Isaac Rice Henry H. Sayles Charles A. Sherman James W. Smith Arnold Spink Richard M. Stewart  Archel C. N. Strother Walter G. Taylor	William Thurston Jr. Herbert W. Tinson George M. Towle Louis T. Underwood Prescott W. Van Alstyne Frank S. Vargas John Vargas Richard F. Walsh Charles Henry Ward 2d Josiah C. Weaver Samuel T. Weaver Frank Wilson

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