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Massachusetts Tax Records online at the federal and state level
Massachusetts – Taxation – Massachusetts, Boston Tax Records, 1822-1918, images, at FS
Massachusetts – Taxation – House documents of file in Massachusetts Archives, #1134 : petitions to towns for tax relief, vols. 180-188, 303, 1780-1790, at FS
Massachusetts – Taxation – Property valuations and taxes, 1760-1771 (approx.), at FS
Massachusetts – Taxation – Valuations, 1780-1792, 1810-1811, at FS
Massachusetts Tax Records online at the county level
Berkshire County – Tax Records – Inheritance tax records, v. 1-2, 1907-1921, at FS
Essex County – Tax Records – Essex County Tax Records online, at GTHG
Essex County – Taxation – Soldiers in the French War from Essex County, 1755-1761 : Militia Officers, Essex Co., Mass., 1761-1771; Danvers Tax List, 1775, District Covered by Amos Trask, Collector, at FS
Massachusetts Tax Records online at the city level
Amherst – Taxation – Valuation and Tax Lists, Early(1759?) to 1860 [Amherst, Massachusetts], at FS
Andover – Taxation – Selectmen’s Records, 1715-1970, at FS
Andover – Taxation – Tax Records, 1678-1865, at FS
Ashfield – Taxation – Valuations, 1817-1850, at FS
Barre – Taxation – Church Records, 1767-1937, at FS
Barre – Taxation – Town Records, 1763-1846, at FS
Bedford – Taxation – Tax Lists, 1761-1830, at FS
Bellingham – Taxation – Tax Records, 1811-1858, at FS
Bernardston – Taxation – Town Records, Taxes, Valuations and Miscellaneous Papers, Ca. 1792-1853 [Bernardston, Massachusetts], at FS
Bernardston – Taxation – Valuation Books, 1829-1850, at FS
Bernardston – Taxation – Tax Records, Valuations, Assessments, 1790-1859, at FS
Beverly – Taxation – Tax Records 1754-1849, Beverly, Massachusetts, at FS
Beverly – Taxation – Town Records, 1735-1779, at FS
Billerica – Taxation – Tax Records, 1822-1850, at FS
Billerica – Taxation – Town Records, 1653-1848, at FS
Billerica – Tax Records – Billerica, Middlesex Co., MA, 1679 Tax List, at DW
Bolton – Taxation – Tax Records, 1788-1850, at FS
Boston – Taxation – Massachusetts, Boston Tax Records : COLLECTION RECORD, 1822-1918, at FS
Boston – Taxation – Massachusetts, Suffolk County, Boston, Tax Records, Pt. 1 : Assessors’ Lists, Tax Books, and Transfer Books, 1822-1918, at FS
Boston – Taxation – Massachusetts, Suffolk County, Boston, Tax Records, Pt. 2 : Valuation Books, 1822-1918, at FS
Boston – Taxation – List of Persons, Copartnerships and Corporations Who Were Taxed on Five Thousand Dollars and Upwards in the City of Boston in the Year …, : Shewing the Precise Amount of Real and Personal Estate, and the Amount of Tax Assessed on the Same, at FS
Boston – Taxation – Assessors’ “taking Books” of the Town of Boston, 1780, at FS
Boston – Taxation – First Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston : Boston Tax Lists &c. 1674-1695, at FS
Boston – Taxation – A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, at FS
Boston – Taxation – Records relating to the early history of Boston, Boston Tax Lists 1674-1695, v. 1, at IA
Boston – Taxation – Records relating to the early history of Boston, Boston Tax Lists 1674-1695, v. 1, at GB
Boston – Taxation – Records relating to the early history of Boston, v22, direct tax of 1798, at IA
Boston – Taxation – Records relating to the early history of Boston, v22, direct tax of 1798, at GB
Boxford – Taxation – Tax Records, 1711-1851, at FS
Boxford – Taxation – Valuation and Tax Lists, 1760-1775, at FS
Bridgewater – Taxation – Property Valuations and Taxes, 1837-1850, at FS
Brookfield – Tax Records – Brookfield, Worcester Co., MA, 2nd Precinct Tax List (abt. 1750), at DW
Brookline – Taxation – Tax Lists, 1763-1837, at FS
Burlington – Taxation – Town Records, 1799-1856, at FS
Burlington – Taxation – Property Valuations and Taxes, 1822-1850, at FS
Cambridge – Taxation – Tax Records, 1794-1848 [Cambridge, Massachusetts], at FS
Canton – Taxation – Tax Records, 1801, 1820, 1829, at FS
Carlisle – Taxation – Town Records, 1754-1861, at FS
Charlton – Taxation – Valuation and Taxes of the Town of Charlton, Mass., 1905, at FS
Chelmsford – Taxation – Town Records, 1727-1779, at FS
Chelmsford – Taxation – Town records, valuations, proceedings, taxes, deeds & misc. 1710-1869, at FS
Cohasset – Taxation – Cohasset Financial Records, 1814-1859; 1891-1898, at FS
Concord – Taxation – Tax Records, 1826-1860, at FS
Conway – Taxation – Property Valuations and Taxes, 1780-1850, at FS
Danvers – Taxation – Town Records 1752-1884, Danvers, Massachusetts, at FS
Danvers – Taxation – Tax Records 1766-1856, Danvers, Massachusetts, at FS
Danvers – Taxation – Town Records, 1752-1774, at FS
Dedham – Taxation – List of Persons Assessed for a Poll Tax in Dedham 1917, at FS
Deerfield – Taxation – Tax Lists, 1769-1790, at FS
Deerfield – Taxation – Valuation and Tax Lists, 1787-1850, at FS
Dorchester – Taxation – The Taxable Valuation of the Real and Personal Estates, with the Polls and Amount of Tax, in the Town of Dorchester : Also, United States Tax, Statistics, &c., for the Year 1869, at FS
Edgartown – Taxation – Property Valuations and Taxes, 1841-1841, 1845-1846, 1855, at FS
Enfield – Taxation – Enfield, Massachusetts Town Records, 1816-1927, at FS
Enfield – Taxation – Tax Records, 1816-1845 [Enfield, Massachusetts], at FS
Essex – Taxation – Tax Records 1802-1856, Essex, Massachusetts, at FS
Gill – Taxation – Property Valuations and Taxes, 1826-1850, at FS
Goshen – Taxation – Property Valuations and Taxes, 1793-1854, at FS
Granby – Taxation – Property Valuations and Taxes, 1794-1849, at FS
Greenfield – Taxation – Tax Records, 1810-1850, at FS
Greenwich – Taxation – Tax Records, 1831-1858 [Greenwich, Massachusetts], at FS
Groton – Taxation – Town Records [Groton, Massachusetts], 1655-1896, at FS
Hamilton – Taxation – Tax Records 1807-1827, Hamilton, Massachusetts, at FS
Hamilton – Taxation – Town Records 1712-1848, Hamilton, Massachusetts, at FS
Hardwick – Taxation – [Bass & Company’s Directories for Massachusetts], at FS
Hingham – Taxation – Names of Tax Payers of Hingham, Massachusetts, 1711 : from the Original Manuscript in the Possession of Frank D. Andrews, at FS
Ipswich – Taxation – Tax Records 1780-1854, Ipswich, Massachusetts, at FS
Kingston – Taxation – Tax Records, 1830-1847, at FS
Leverett – Taxation – Town Records, 1727-1916 [Leverett, Massachusetts], at FS
Lexington – Taxation – Tax Records, 1729-1852, at FS
Lincoln – Taxation – Tax Records of Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1760-1860, at FS
Lowell – Taxation – Valuation Books 1826-1850, Lowell, Massachusetts, at FS
Lunenburg – Taxation – Tax Lists, 1761-1770, at FS
Lynnfield – Taxation – Tax Records, 1810-1824, at FS
Lynn – Taxation – Tax Records, 1818-1834, at FS
Malden – Taxation – Town Financial Records, 1769-1820, at FS
Malden – Taxation – Property Valuations and Taxes, 1812, 1825, 1834, at FS
Marblehead – Taxation – Tax Valuations, 1778-1839, at FS
Marblehead – Taxation – Tax and Valuation Records, 1734-1776, at FS
Marlborough – Taxation – Tax Records, 1844, at FS
Mattapoisett – Tax Records & Church Records – Mattapoisett, Rochester, MA, Tax Rate & Church Membership Lists, at DW
Medford – Taxation – Town Records 1673-1864, Medford, Massachusetts, at FS
Methuen – Societies – Society Records, 1838 (Methuen, Massachusetts), at FS
Methuen – Taxation – Selectmen’s Records, 1733-1860 (Methuen, Massachusetts), at FS
Methuen – Town Records – Town Records, 1725-1871(Methuen, Massachusetts), at FS
Methuen – Town Records – Selectmen’s Records, 1733-1860 (Methuen, Massachusetts), at FS
Methuen – Town Records – Methuen (Massachusetts) Miscellaneous Town Records, at FS
Middleton – Taxation – Tax Valuations, 1729-1799, at FS
Middleton – Taxation – Tax Records, 1728-1799, at FS
Milton – Tax Records – Milton, Norfolk Co., MA, Tax Lists, 1678, 1700, 1749 & 1800, at DW
Milton – Taxation – Milton Town Records, 1662-1729 : Issued in Observance of the Tercentenary of the Founding of the Massachusetts Bay Coloney, at FS
Milton – Taxation – Tax Lists, 1775-1859, at FS
Milton – Taxation – Town Records, 1668-1793, at FS
Monson – Taxation – Property Valuations and Taxes, 1805-1850, at FS
Montague – Taxation – Property Valuations and Taxes, 1784-1856, at FS
Nantucket – Taxation – Town Records, 1695-1852 [Nantucket, Massachusetts], at FS
Natick – Taxation – Assessed Valuation of the Real Estate of the Inhabitants of the Town of Natick : Also a Descriptive List of the Real Estate Owned by Non-residents. Subject to Taxation May 1, 1892, at FS
Needham – Taxation – Town Records, 1711-1731, at FS
Newburyport – Taxation – List of Persons Assessed for Poll Taxes in Wards 1-5, 1905, at FS
Newburyport – Taxation – Tax Records, 1780-1851, at FS
Northfield – Taxation – Valuation and Taxes of the Town of Northfield, Massachusetts, at FS
Northfield – Taxation – Tax Records, 1827-1849, at FS
North Reading – Taxation – Town of North Reading : Valuation of Real and Personal Estate with the Taxes Assessed Upon the Same, 1890, at FS
Oakham – Taxation – The Valuation and Taxes of the Town of Oakham for the Year …, at FS
Oakham – Taxation – Early Town Records, 1762-1895, at FS
Oxford – Taxation – Assessors’ Report of the Valuation and Tax for 1902 of the Town of Oxford, Mass., at FS
Palmer – Taxation – Valuation and Tax Lists, 1791-1814, 1824-1846, at FS
Pelham – Taxation – Tax Lists, 1831-1842, 1747-1815 [Pelham, Massachusetts], at FS
Pepperell – Taxation – Valuation and Taxes of the Town of Pepperell, at FS
Phillipston – Taxation – County and Town Tax, 1832-1841, at FS
Plympton – Taxation – Property Valuations and Taxes, 1783-1850, at FS
Princeton – Taxation – Town Records, 1762-1964, at FS
Quincy – Taxation – Town Records, 1792-1894, at FS
Reading – Taxation – Tax Records, 1773-1811, at FS
Reading – Taxation – Tax List, 1663-1705, 1750-1803 [Reading, Massachusetts], at FS
Rehoboth – Taxation – Town reports, 1846-1914 : also including some births, marriages, and deaths, and tax lists, at FS
Rowley – Taxation – Records of Taxation, 1817-1850, at FS
Russell – Taxation – Tax and Valuation Lists, 1831-1866 [Russell, Massachusetts], at FS
Salem – Taxation – Tax Records, 1689-1850, at FS
Salem – Taxation – Tax Records of the City of Salem, Massachusetts, Copied As a W.P.A. Project, 1936-1939, at FS
Salem – Taxation – Tax and Valuation Lists, 1689-1831, at FS
Salisbury – Taxation – Tax Records, 1777-1850, at FS
Sharon – Taxation – Valuation Records 1740-1839, Sharon, Massachusetts, at FS
Shelburne – Taxation – Tax Records of Shelburne, 1812-1840, at FS
Sherborn – Taxation – Town Records [Sherborn, Massachusetts], 1674-1861, at FS
Shutesbury – Taxation – Tax Valuations, 1826-1850, at FS
Stoneham – Taxation – Tax Records, 1799-1840, at FS
Stoughton – Taxation – Tax Records 1754-1823, Stoughton, Massachusetts, at FS
Stoughton – Taxation – Tax List, 1724-1777, at FS
Stoughton – Tax Records – Stoughton, Norfolk Co., MA, 1727 Tax List, at DW
Sturbridge – Taxation – Property Valuations and Taxes, 1781-1874 [Sturbridge, Massachusetts], at FS
Tisbury – Taxation – Property Valuations and Taxes, 1826-1850, at FS
Topsfield – Taxation – Valuation and Tax Lists, 1744-1779, at FS
Townsend – Taxation – Annual Reports of the Officers and Committees of the Town of Townsend, at FS
Tyngsborough – Taxation – Town and Vital Records, 1794-1883 [Tyngsborough, Massachusetts], at FS
Walpole – Taxation – Tax Records, 1842-1848 [Walpole, Massachusetts], at FS
Walpole – Taxation – Town Records, 1724-1777, at FS
Waltham – Taxation – Tax Records, 1848, 1850, at FS
Waltham – Taxation – Tax Records, 1738-1820, at FS
Watertown – Taxation – List of Persons Reported for the Assessment of a Poll Tax, at FS
Watertown – Taxation – Taxable Valuation of the Real and Personal Estates with the Amount of Tax in the Town of Watertown, at FS
Wayland – Taxation – Tax Records, 1778-1854, at FS
Webster – Taxation – Valuations, 1832-1840, at FS
Wendell – Taxation – Tax Records, 1843-1844</a
Wenham – Taxation – Tax Records 1731-1840, Wenham, Massachusetts, at FS
Wenham – Taxation – Tax List, 1731-1777, at FS
Westford – Taxation – Tax Records, 1722-1869 (approx.), at FS
Westford – Taxation – Miscellaneous Town Records (loose Papers), 1750-1850 [Westford, Massachusetts], at FS
Westford – Taxation – Tax Records, 1728-1783, at FS
Westminster – Taxation – A Copy of the Valuation and Taxes of the Town of Westminster, Massachusetts, at FS
Westminster – Taxation – Town Records, 1763-1874, at FS
Weston – Taxation – Tax Records, 1757-1859, at FS
Weston – Taxation – Town of Weston, the Tax Lists (1757-1827), at FS
Wilbraham – Taxation – Property Valuations and Taxes, 1814-1843, at FS
Williamsburg – Taxation – Tax Records, 1771-1849 (Williamsburg, Massachusetts), at FS
Wilmington – Taxation – Records of Taxation, 1731-1872, at FS
Woburn – Taxation – Town Records and Miscellaneous Papers, 1673-1852, at FS
Woburn – Taxation – Selectmen’s Records, 1673-1775, at FS
Wrentham – Taxation – Town Records (misc.) 1656-1867, at FS
Wrentham – Taxation – County and Town Tax Records, 1818-1856, at FS
Wrentham – Taxation – Tax and Valuation Records, 1736-1776, at FS
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