Houses and shops adjoining	2 *
Shops adjoining	0
Tanhouses, etc **	1
Stillhouses	1
Warehouses	0
Superficial feet of wharf	0
Ironworks	0
Mills	0.50
Annual worth of the whole real estate	48 pounds
Servants for life	2
Tons of vessels	80
Horses	2
Oxen	4
Cattle	6
Goats and sheep	19
Swine	1
Acres of pasture	200
Number of cows pasture will keep	2
Acres of tillage	4
Bushels of grain produced per year	100
Barrels of cider produced per year	10
Acres of salt marsh	0
Tons of salt marsh hay produced per year	0
Acres of English and upland mowing land	20
Tons of English and upland mowing hay produced per year	20
Acres of fresh meadow	10
Tons of fresh meadow hay per year	10

*houses and shops adjoining -- According to the editor, a "2" may mean one house and one shop adjoining, or it may mean two separate houses.

(Types of Buildings Included Under "Tanhouses, Etc.")

From Massachusetts Tax Valuation of 1771, Picton Press, edited by Bettye Hobbs Pruitt, Picton Press, 1978 and 1998, p. 740.

** Tan Houses, Etc.: Type

01	tanhouse
02	slaughterhouse
03	shop
04	potash works
05	blacksmith shop
06	cordwainter/shoe shop
07	joiner
08	cooper shop
09	wheelwright shop
10	malthouse
11	ropewalk
12	bake shop
13	office
14	shop + tanhouse + potash works
15	shop + tanhouse
16	shop + slaughterhouse
17	shop + potash works
18	2 shops + potash
19	tanhouse + currying shop
20	tanhouse + currying shop + potash
21	spermaceti***/candle works
22	masthouse
23	candleworks + other, unidentified
24	tanhouse + potash
25	weaver shop
26	gunsmith
27	shop + ropewalk
28	shop + other
29	tailor shop
30	two or more separate buildings, not specified (value under "Tanhouse, etc., is a sum)
31	potash + othe unidentified
32	shop + pearlash
33	sadler shop

As the length of the above list indicates, as assessors included a wide variety of working buildings under this heading. many, on the other hand, did not specify what type of building was enumerated, and in those cases there will be no code number at all in this column.

Massachusetts Tax Valuation List of 1771, published and republished 1978, 1998, Picton Press (p. xiii).

***Spermaceti: a pearly white, waxy, almost colorless and tasteless water insoluble solid, obtained from the oil in the head of the sperm whale; used chiefly in the manufacture of cosmetics, candles, for lustering linens, and in medicine as an emollient in ointments, emulsions and cerates.

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