Vermont Taxation: Difference between revisions

Great lists are the annual assessment for town tax purposes, they were taken every year for every town in Vermont.  They are the only taxes organized enough to be of genealogical use.  Many of them are extent, but they are not easy to find.  Sometimes they appear as part of the proprietor or town meeting records (these could be in the town records microfilms at Vermont Public Records Division or at the FHL) or sometimes in separate books (which might be in town clerks' offices or vaults). The assessment might be for a poll that included twenty-one year old males or eligible voters "Freemen" in Vermont.) acreage, buildings, cattle, yards of material produced, and clapboards milled.  People taxed were not necessarily landowners.