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     The tax records compiled here consist of 604 digital images of the grand lists, assessment books, and quadrennial valuations in Castleton Town, 1832-1901, from the basement vault of the town offices.  These records offer some intriguing clues about key aspects of the lives of the people we're focusing on here, and a fascinating portrait of the community in which they lived.  They show not only annual accountings of personal and real property for every property-holder in the town, but where people lived -- or at least what school district they lived in, which is pretty much the same thing.  They thus serve as a kind of proxy for censuses -- especially for the 20-year gap between 1880 and 1900 -- at least for property holders. 

     Instead of transcribing these unwieldy documents, which would consume a prodigious amount of time and in the end not take us very far, here I do what a historian customarily does when confronted with a mass of primary data:  pose a series of questions, and try to answer those questions with the evidence at hand. 

 Above: Castleton Town Offices auxiliary basement vault in May 2007, before the big cleanup.  Below: in August, afterward.

     Click on a question to view my effort to answer it.  Here goes:

     1.  What tax records are digitized and available on this site?

     2.  what kinds of information do these records contain?

     3.  What do the records show about changes in property ownership and financial relations among the delehantys and their kin?

     4.  How did the property accumulations of the Delehantys and their kin compare to other members of their community?

     5.  Who were the property owners in west castleton (school district 9)?

     6.  How did their material circumstances change over time?

     7.  What castleton-based slate companies appear in these tax records?

     8.  What do these records show about the changing fortunes of these slate companies over time?

     9.  What clues do these records provide into various episodes in the life histories of the main characters we're investigating here?

     10.  What insights into the boyhood and youth of John Delehanty can we glean from these records?

     11.  Select transcriptions

 


1What tax records are digitized and available on this site?

     The following inventory lists the digitized tax records available on these pages and provides links to each.  The numbers refer to the numbers assigned to the digital photos, not to the page numbers on the originals. 

     Abbreviations:  AB=Assessment Book.  ABST=Abstracts from Individual Lists.  GL=Grand List.  QV=Quadrennial (before 1865 Quinquennial) Valuation of Real Estate.  The differences between these types of lists are summarized in the answer to Question No. 2, below.

 

1832

1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25
(entire gl)

1850

1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21
(entire gl)

1857

1
(partial gl)

1858

1  2
(partial gl)

1859

1
(partial ab)

1859

1
(partial gl)

1860

1
(partial ab)

1860

1
(partial qv)

1860

1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30  31  32  33
(entire gl)

1861

1
(partial ab)

1861

1
(partial gl)

1862

1
(partial gl)

1863

1
(partial ab)

1863

1
(partial gl)

1864

1
(partial gl)

1865

1
(partial gl)

1865

1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29
(entire qv)

1866

1
(partial gl)

1867

1
(partial gl)

1868

1  2  3
(partial gl)

1869

1
(partial ab)

1869

1
(partial gl)

1870

1
(partial ab)

1870

1  2
(partial gl)

1870

1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30  31  32  33  34  35  36  37
(entire qv)

1871

1  2
(partial ab)

1871

1  2
(partial gl)

1872

1  2
(partial gl)

1873

1  2
(partial gl)

1874

1
(partial gl)

1874

1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30  31  32  33  34  35  36  37  38  39  40  41  42 
(entire qv)

1875

1
(partial ab)

1875

1
(partial gl)

1876

1
(partial gl)

1877

1
(partial ab)

1877

1
(partial gl)

1878

1  2  3
(partial ab)

1878

1  2
(partial gl)

1878

1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30  31  32  33  34  35  36  37  38  39  40
(entire qv)

1879

1
(partial gl)

1880

1  2
(partial gl)

1881-82

1  2  3  4
(partial ab)

1881

1  2
(partial gl)

1882

1  2
(partial gl)

1882

1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14
(entire qv)

1883

1  2
(partial gl)

1884

1  2  3
(partial gl)

1885

1  2
(partial gl)

1886

1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30  31  32  33  34  35  36  37  38  39  40  41
(entire gl)

1886

1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15
(entire qv)

1887

1  2
(partial gl)

1888

1  2
(partial gl)

1889

1  2  3  4  5
(partial gl)

1890

1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30  31  32  33
(entire gl)

1890

1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17
(entire qv)

1890

1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18
(entire qv-copy)

1891

1  2  3  4
(partial gl)

1892

1  2  3
(partial gl)

1893

1  2  3
(partial gl)

1894

1  2  3  4
(partial abst)

1894

1  2  3  4
(partial gl)

1894

1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13
(entire qv)

1895

1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15
(entire abst)

1895

1  2
(partial gl)

1896

1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30  31  32  33  34  35
(entire gl)

1897

1  2  3  4
(partial ab)

1897

1  2  3  4  5  6
(partial gl)

1898

1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15
(entire ab)

1898

1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21
(entire qv)

1899

1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18
(entire ab)

1899

1  2  3  4  5  6
(partial gl)

1900

1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14
(entire ab)

1901

1  2  3
(partial ab)

 

 

2.  what kinds of information do these records contain?

     It depends on the year and type of list, but since all these lists were compiled in order to indicate who owed what taxes, they all convey similar types of information.  Only adult males and/or property owners were listed. 

  •      Abstracts (AB), compiled annually, disaggregated personal property into the following categories:  livestock; vehicles; watches; musical instruments; miscellaneous; stock-in-trade; money (liquid assets); and total personal dollars.  The also identify the school district taxpayers lived in, and sometimes show dog ownership. 

  •    Grand Lists (GL) were compiled annually by "Listers" who circulated through the town listing all adult males and everyone, male and female, who owned taxable property.  All adult men paid an annual $2 poll, to which was added a tax amounting to 1% of the value of their property.  The grand lists also showed which school district people lived in, which can stand as a pretty good proxy for the locale of people's village or homestead (e.g., School District No. 9 was West Castleton).  They also showed ownership of real estate (1st class and 2nd class); personal estate; total net worth; and annual town taxes. 

  •    Quinquennial and Quadrennial Valuations of Real Estate (QV) were undertaken every 5 and 4 years (respectively), and as the name suggests were concerned exclusively with real estate -- divided into First Class Real Estate ("Buildings with not more than ten acres attached, mills, factories, buildings on public lots, stores, forges, furnaces, mines and quarries, etc") and Second Class Real Estate ("All other Real Estate, viz.:  Land, including in the appraisal the buildings occupied for the use of a farm and as part of it").

     Some transcribed examples appear in item no. 11, below.

 

3.  What do the records show about changes in property ownership and financial relations among the delehantys and their kin?    

 

 

     Understanding the larger social forces that shaped John Delehanty's boyhood means understanding his nuclear family's material position relative to the rest of the Delehanty clan.   These longitudinal data on property ownership and personal finances, summarized in the accompanying Excel file (click in box above) permit a fine-grained analysis of these shifting material relationships over three decades from the late 1860s to the late 1890s.

 

      I'm especially interested in understanding the relations among the three Delehanty brothers -- Mathias, James, and John.  This is because I'm convinced that it's here, in the nexus of these fraternal property relations, that can be found a crucially important element in the material realities that defined the contours of John Delehanty's childhood and youth. 

 

     These grand lists and assessment books confirm what we see in the land records:  that Mathias was the big loser in the race to accumulate property.  Simply put, John Delehanty's father was a financial failure.  At his death in 1899 he owned no real estate.  Through the 1880s and most of the 1890s his personal estate was dwarfed by those of his brothers.

 

     The following box highlights what seem to be the most revealing aspects of these data:

 

 

Property Ownership and Financial Relations among the Brothers Delehanty and Patrick H. Downs, 1860s-1900s

 

  •    While all three brothers and P. H. Downs started out poor and working class, James, John, and Patrick H. Downs ended up near the top of the socioeconomic ladder, and Mathias near the bottom.

  •    After the Civil War, as James & Mathias came of age and started raising families, there was a period of consecutive five years -- from 1870 through 1874 -- in which they owned property together:  5 acres and a $540 house & lot in Hydeville.  After 1874 this property became James's, and Mathias disappeared from the lists.  He did not appear again until 1886.

  •    This corresponds precisely with what we know from other sources:  that Mathias and his family lived in Granville NY in the late 1870s and early 1880s, and that after the death of his first wife Margaret McGrath in 1878, he, his children, and his second wife Bridget Waters moved to West Castleton and opened the Delehanty Boarding House.  This was in 1885.  It was there that John Delehanty was born a year later.

  •    This strongly suggests a financial falling-out of some kind between James and Mathias, dating to around 1875.  It seems revealing and important that these two brothers owned property together for five straight years in the first half of the 1870s, and never again thereafter.  Mathias never became part of Downs & Delehanty Slate Works (established in Poultney in 1873) or the Lake Bomoseen Slate Company (established in Castleton in 1885).  A full decade separated the dissolution of the Mathias-James financial partnership (1875) and the re-establishment of some kind of financial relationship between them (1885, in Mathias's presumed rental of the boarding house, though no documentary record of this rental arrangement has been found).  We'll probably never know exactly what happened, but the big picture seem clear:  Mathias began as James's financial equal, then dropped out of the picture for 10 years, then returned in an vastly inferior financial position, where he remained until his death.

  •    The growth of the Lake Bomoseen Slate Company, from its founding in 1885, paralleled the growth in the fortunes of its three co-owners James, John, and Patrick H. Downs.  The data show a big expansion of the company in the year 1890, with the acquisition of some 47 acres of quarry and mountain land.  (It was also in 1890 that the company purchased a big safe from a Chicago outfit to store all their cash, and soon after started buying steam barges to haul slate on the lake; see Photo Pages 30 & 31, photos 1096-97 and 1107-08).  Overall the 1890s were very good years for James, John, and Patrick H. Downs.

  •    John Delehanty (Uncle) owned no real estate in Castleton Town, except for his co-ownership of the Lake Bomoseen Slate Company.  He first appeared on these lists in 1883, when he lived in Hydeville (School District 5).  Two years later, in 1885, he moved to West Castleton (District 9), where he lived for the next 13 years.  The value of his personal estate rose dramatically -- from $100 in 1885 to over $6,000 a decade later.  In 1898 he moved to Fair Haven, married a woman 17 years his junior, and starting raising a family.  During his 13 years in West Castleton, he probably lived in the Delehanty Boarding House with his brother Mathias, his wife, and their children -- including his young nephew John.

  •    The data for John Delehanty (Uncle) and Patrick Wallace (husband of Anastasia Delehanty, the sister of James, John & Mathias) provide corroborating evidence for their journey to the Dakota Territory gold mines in the late 1870s and early 1880s.  John seems to have returned to Vermont from Dakota Territory in 1883, and Patrick Wallace in 1884 (see Census page for their listing in Leadville, Dakota Territory, in 1880).  Evidently neither struck it rich, but both did make it back in one piece.

  •    The following chart summarizes these data for the years 1886-1900, using the variable of personal estates (cash money that each possessed):

 

  •   Where did Mathias get his $1,000 from 1895?  It almost seems to have fallen into his lap.  Whatever the case, we see here rapidly rising fortunes for everyone except Mathias (these data for the Lake Bomoseen Slate Company are probably somewhat deceptive, as all signs are that the company's assets grew rapidly during this period; that increase probably wasn't measured in the value of liquid assets, which is what this chart shows). 

  •   John and Patrick H. Downs saw the most rapid increases.  The data for John stop after 1898, when he moved to Fair Haven and started raising a family of his own, nearly three decades later than his brothers.  James probably ploughed much of his profits into stocks, bonds, and other non-taxable commodities, as well as into raising and educating his 11 children.  We know in 1903 John sold off his portion of the company for upwards of $20,000.  This was about the same amount inherited by Patrick H. Downs's widow Bridget after his death in 1902.  So altogether the company was worth around $60,000 in the first years of the 20th century.  Mathias owned none of it. 

  •    Another way to look at the data is to compare the total tax of each individual and entity over time:

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11.  Select Transcriptions

 

 

April 1858.  List & Assessment of Castleton, Letter "D".

 


   S. Dist        

1

Dyre, Rollins 1 Poll    

1

     1 cow  25,  1 horse  75   100  

2

Quinn, Patrick 1 Poll    

2

Dolan, Thomas 1 Poll    

 

     1 cow 30, 1 swine 6   36  

2

Dempsey, Michael 1 Poll    

12

Delhanty [Delehanty], Patrick 1 Poll    

12

Donaly, Matthew 1 Poll    

3

Dyre, William B. 1 Poll    

 

     2 gold watches  150, money 300      

3

Dolan, Morris 1 Poll    

4

Demison, Maria      

 

     5 cattle   85  

 

     2 swine 18, yoke oxen 125   135  

4

Demming, Samuel  Est.      

 

     1 acre  8  house   486  

5

Delehanty, Michael 1 Poll    

 

     1 cow  30,  1 yearling  8,  1 swine 10   48  

5

Donough, Miles  Mc  [McDonough] 1 Poll    

 

     1 swine   5  

9

Dorsey, Israel      

 

     House & Barn   550  

12

Dorsey, John 1 Poll    

12

Donovan, Daniel 1 Poll    

9

Drake, O. E. 1 Poll    

 

photo nos. 336, 337,  photo page 7

 

 

Grand List, Castleton, 1883, Letter "D"

 

 

Column Codes

Column A.    "Polls at $2.00"

Column B.     "Acres"

Column C.     "Total Value of Real Estate"

Column D.     "Personal Estate"

Column E.      "One Per Centum of the value of the Estate ... "

Column F.      "School District"

 

Names A First Class Real Estate Second Class Real Estate C D

E

F

# $ B Description $ B Description $
                         
Dellehanty, Edward 1 2 ¾ Deming House 300 2 "Sutliff" 60 360   5.60 5
Dellehanty, James 1 2       20½ Farm 1000 1100   12.00 5
Dellehanty, John 1 2               200 4.00 5
 . . . .                        
Downs, Patrick H. 1 2 ½ House 600       800   8.00 5
 . . . .                        
Downs & Dellehanty                   3676 36.77 5
 . . . .                        

 

 

photo 353 on photo pg 8

 

 

 

Grand List, Castleton, 1885, Letter "D"

 

 

Column Codes

Column A.    "Polls at $2.00"

Column B.     "Acres"

Column C.     "Total Value of Real Estate"

Column D.     "Personal Estate"

Column E.      "One Per Centum of the value of the Estate ... "

Column F.      "School District"

 

Names A First Class Real Estate Second Class Real Estate C D

E

F

# $ B Description $ B Description $
                         
Dellehanty, Edward 1 2 ¾ Deming 300 2 Sutliff 60        
            4 Little Pasture 100 460   6.60 5
Dellehanty, James 1 2 ½ N.P. Hatch 400 20½ Farm 700 1100   13.00 5
Dellehanty, John 1 2               100 3.00 9
 . . . .                        
Downs, Patrick H. 1 2 ½ House 600       600 771 15.71 5
 . . . .                        
Downs & Dellehanty                   1541 15.41 5
        slate mill etc               9
 . . . .                        

Interestingly, here Uncle John Delehanty appears on the Castleton Grand List, in school district 9 (West Castleton).   Downs & Delehanty is not shown as owning any real estate, and as being located in both school districts 5 and 9 (i.e., Hydeville and West Castleton).  Some curious results here . . .

 

photos 351 & 352photo pg 8

 

 

Grand List, Castleton, 1886, p. 9, Letter "D"

 

 

Column Codes

Column A.    "Polls at $2.00"

Column B.     "Acres"

Column C.     "Total Value of Real Estate"

Column D.     "Personal Estate"

Column E.      "One Per Centum of the value of the Estate ... "

Column F.      "School District"

 

Names A First Class Real Estate Second Class Real Estate C D

E

F

# $ B Description $ B Description $
                         

Daniels, Edward

1 2               30

2.30

1

Davis, Elias

1 2                

2.00

13

Danville, Alexander

1 2               50

2.50

5

Davis, James

          150 Rumsey 1500 1500  

15.00

8

Davis, John H.

1 2                

2.00

13

Davis, Robert J.

1 2                

2.00

5

Davis, Louisa E.

          60 Parkhurst 1800 1800  

18.00

13

Dawson, George H.

1 2       40 Farm 1100 1100  

11.00

6

Dellehanty, Edward

1 2 ¾ Deming 300 3 Sutliff 60    

 

 

 

          4 Little Pasture 100    

 

 

 

          3½ Lot 40 500  

7.00

5

Dellehanty, James

1 2 ¾ N. P. Hatch 400 20½ Farm 700 1100  

13.00

5

Dellehanty, Mathias

1 2                

2.00

9

Dempsey, Michael

                  863

8.63

2

Dempsey, Stephen

1 2                

2.00

2

Derby, Edwin R.

1 2                

2.00

4

Dikeman, George H.

          23 Farm 300    

3.00

8

Dikeman, Myron M.

          23 Mountain 25    

0.25

7

Dolan, Elizabeth

    ¼ House 400          

4.00

3

Dolan, George T.

1 2                

2.00

2

Donnelly, Francis

    1/8 Store & Tenement 1650          

16.50

3

Donnelly, James

1 2 1 House 600          

8.00

3

Donnelly, James P.

1 2                

2.00

8

Donnelly, Sarah J.

          60 Farm 600    

6.00

6

Doolan, John

    ¼ House            

3.00

3

Dooley, Martin H.

1 2   1/3 McCollum 120       121  

3.20

12

Doran, Jno

    ¾ Raynor 200       200  

2.00

12

Dorman, Richard A.

          68½ Quarries etc. 3310 3310  

33.10

13

Dorr, Seneca M. Est.

          100 Farm 800 800  

8.00

1

Dorset, Marble Co.

    5½ Water Power 7100       7110  

71.00

5

Dorsey, Edward

1 2                

2.00

12

Downey, Ellen

    ½ House 225       225  

2.25

3

Downey, Patrick

1 2       35 Farm 600    

 

 

 

          5 Ellis 50 650  

8.50

3

Downes, Edward

1 2 ½ House 600       600  

8.00

5

Downs, Gilbert

1 2               15

2.15

5

Downs, P. H.

1 2 ½ House 600       600 512

13.12

5

Downs, Thomas Est.

    1½ House 400       400  

4.00

5

Downs & Dellehanty *

                715.39

7.16

5


* So it turns out that Downs & Delehanty was headquartered in School District No. 5, that is, in Hydeville -- not in West Castleton or on Lake Bomoseen.  This suggests it was involved in both slate quarrying and slate finishing and manufacturing.  Also, recall that this is the Grand List in the year of John Delehanty's birth.  His father Mathias is shown for the first time in the Castleton Grand Lists, in School District No. 9 --West Castleton -- with no taxable property.   Meanwhile his Uncle John has fallen off the grand list.  Curious again.

 

photo 343, photo page 7

 

 

Grand List, Castleton, 1900, Letter "D"

 

 

Column Codes

Column A.    "School District"

Column B.     "Polls at $2.00"

Column C.     "Acres"  (appears twice under "Real Estate")

Column D.     "Total Value of All The Real Estate"

Column E.     "Full Value of All Usable Personal Property ..."

Column F.     "1 Percent of the Value of Real and Personal Property with Total Am't of Tally"

Names A B Real Estate Real Estate D E F
# $ C Description $ C Description $
                         
Dagg, C.A. 5 1 2 1 blacksmith shop 200            
    - - 1 house lot 300       500 50 7.50
Daniels, Henry 1 1 2 1 house lot 200 6 Woodbury 100 300   5.00
Daniels, Edward 1 1 2                 2.00
Daniels, Erwin 1 1 2                 2.00
Davis, George 3 1 2                 2.00
Davis, Thomas 3 1 2                 2.00
Davis, Louisa E. 13 - -       60 farm 1500 1500   15.00
Davis, John W. 13 1 2                 2.00
Davis, Leonard P. 13 1 2           1500 1500   15.00
Dawson, George 6 1 2       40 farm 900 900   3.00
Dean, Seth 3 - -       71 farm 1500 1500 365 18.65
Dean, John 3 1 2 ½ house lot 700       700 210 11.00
DeRosier, W. H. 3 1 2                 2.00
Delehanty, James 5 1 2 ¾ Hatch 300 19 farm 1100 1400 3360 49.60
Delehanty, Bridget ** 9 - -               2090 20.90
Delehanty, Bridget 5 1 2       2 Kelley 100 100   1.00
Delehanty, Edward 5 - - 7½ house lot 450       450   6.50
Davis, James 8 - -       150 Farm 1300 1300   13.00
Dunns, G. E. 4 1 2       2 Browley lot 50 50   2.50
Dunns, Della 4 - - 1 house & lot 700     700     7.00
Denton, Warren 3 1 2                 2.00
Dempsey, William 3 1 2                 2.00
Dempsey, Dennis 5 1 2                 2.00
Dolan, Geo T. 3 - - ¾ house lot 400       400 20 6.20
Dockum, Thos. E.. 3 1 2             400   4.00
Doyle, Alice & McCain 5 - - ¾ acre  burnt lot 150       150   1.50
Doyle, James 5 1 2                 2.00
Doyle, Thomas 5 1 2                 2.00
Dikeman, N.M & M.M. 8 - -       100 Johnson Pasture 500 500   5.00
Dikeman, Nancy M. Est 3 - - ¾ house & lot (smith) 775 23 Farm 300 1075   10.75
Dooley, M. H. 5 1 2 ¼ house & lot 300       300   5.00
Donahue, Wm 3 1 2               50 2.50
Downey, Ellen 3 - - ½ house & lot 300       300   3.00
Doren, Owen 9 1 2       200   300     3.00
Downs, P.H. 5 1 2 ½ house lot 800       800 9300 103.00
Downs, Thomas Est. 5 - - 1½ house lot 400       400   4.00
Downs, Mary E. & Jas F. 5 - - ½ house lot 300       300   3.00

 

**  This is Bridget Waters Delehanty, widowed in 1899, shown here living in School District 9, that is, in West Castleton.  The next year she would move to Hydeville (School District 5).

 

photo 342, photo page 7

 

 

 

Grand List, Castleton, 1901, Letter "D"

 

 

Column Codes

Column A.    "School District"

Column B.     "Polls at $2.00"

Column C.     "Acres"  (appears twice under "Real Estate")

Column D.     "Total Value of All The Real Estate"

Column E.     "Full Value of All Usable Personal Property ..."

Column F.     "1 Percent of the Value of Real and Personal Property with Total Am't of Tally"

Names A B Real Estate Real Estate D E F
# $ C Description $ C Description $
                         
Dagg, C.A. 5 1 2 1 blacksmith shop 200            
    - - 1 house lot 300       500 50 7.50
David, George 3 1 2                 2.00
David, Thomas 3 1 2                 2.00
Daniels, Ernest 1 1 2                 2.00
Daniels, Henry 1 1 2 1 house lot 200 6 Woodbury 100 300 32 5.32
Daniels, Edward 1 1 2                 2.00
Daniels, Jas 7 1 2                 2.00
Davis, John W. 13 1 2                 2.00
Davis, James 8 - -       150 farm 1300 1300   13.00
Davis, Leonard P. 13 1 2                 2.00
Davis, Louisa E. Est. 13 - -       60 farm 1500 1500   15.00
Dean, Seth 3 - -       71 farm 1500 1500 354 18.54
Dean, John 3 1 2 ½ house lot 700       700 210 11.10
Delehanty, Bridget ** 5 -                 2000 20.00
Delehanty, James 5 1 2 ¾ Hatch 300 19 farm 1100 1400 2675 42.75
Delehanty, Edward 5 1 2 7½ house lot 450       450   6.50
Delehanty, Bridget 5 - -       2 Kelley 100 100   1.00
Dempsey, Wm 3 1 2                 2.00
Dempsey, Annie 3 - - ¾ house lot (Dikeman) 775       775   7.75
Denst, G. E. 4 1 2       2 Bromly lot 50 50 40 2.90
Denst, Della 4 - - 1 house lot 700       700   7.00
Denton, Warren 2 1 2                 2.00
Dewey, B.J. 6 1 2                 2.00
DeRosier, Wm H 3 1 2                 2.00
Dikeman, N.M & M.M. 8 - -       100 Jolman Pasture 500 500   5.00
Dikeman, Nancy M. Est 8 - -       23 Farm 300 300   3.00
Dooley, W. H. 5 1 2 ¼ house lot 300       300   5.00
Doyle, Thomas 5 1 2                 2.00
Doyle, Alice McCain 5 - - ¾ burnt lot 150       150   1.50
Dolan, Geo T. 3 - - ¾ house lot 400       400   4.00
Donahue, Wm 3 1 2               56 2.56
Doren, Owen 9 1 2       200 Farm 600 600 90 8.90
Downs, P.H. 5 1 2 ½ house lot 800       800 8975 99.75
Downs, Thomas Est. 5 - - 1½ house lot 400       400   4.00
Downs, Mary E. & Jas F. 5 - - ½ house lot 300       300   3.00
Danby, Ellen 3 - - ½ house lot 300       300   3.00
Donnelly, James 3 - - 1 house lot 450       450   4.50
Dorman, R.A. 13 - -       68½ Quarry & Pasture 2000 2000   20.00
Dorr, John C.R. 1 - -       100 Farm 800 800   8.00

 

**  This is Bridget Waters Delehanty, widowed in 1899.  Comparing this Grand List of 1901 to the Grand List for 1900, we see that Bridget Waters Delehanty moved from School District No. 9 (West Castleton) to School District No. 5  (Hydeville).  This basically means that she abandoned the family's boarding house soon after the 1900 census, perhaps that autumn, and moved to Hydeville with her surviving minor children -- including our grandfather John Delehanty (b. Oct 1886).  In other words, John Delehanty lived in West Castleton only until fall 1900 or spring 1901.   (The other Bridget Delehanty on this list -- associated with the Kelley Farm -- was the widow of Edward, and only distantly related to our branch of the Delehantys.)

 

photo 341, photo page 7

 

 

 

Abstracts of Individual Lists, Castleton, 1902, Letter "D"

 


 

Column Codes

A.  Poll?

B.  ?

C.  L---  S----

D.  Dollars

E.  Money, including debts due ---.  Dollars.

F.  Stocks in Banks, Corporations, &c.  Dollars.

G.  Total Personal Dollars

H.  School District

I.  Remarks

Name

A

B

C

D

E F

G

H

I
                   
Dagg, C.A. 1 2 2 72     72 5 1 dog

Daniels, Mary

1 2           1  

  "   Edward

1 2           1  

  "  Joseph

1 2           1  

Davis, George

1 2           3  

Davis, Jno W.

1 2           13  

Denn, Seth

F -- 14 373     373 3  

  "  John S.

1 2       200 214 3  

Delehanty, James

1 2 3 54 2700   2354 5 2 dogs

  "  Edward

1 2 1 25     65 5 1 dog

Denton, W. L.

1 2           3  

Dunns, Harry

1 2 7 40     40 5  

  "  G. E.

1 2 2 65     115 4  

Dempsey, Wm.

1 2 2 30     30 3  

Downey, Benj. F.

1 2           6  

DeRosier, Wm H.

1 2           3  

Dooley, M. H.

1 2           5  

Doran, Owen

1 2 24 300     300 9  

Drake, Eli J.

1 2           4  

Ducey, Henry

1 2 1 25     25 5  

Duffany, Chas S.

1 2           3  

  "  Peter H.

1 2           3  

Duffany, Frank N.

1 2           3  

Dunn, H. S.

1 2           3  

  "  Patrick

-- -- 5 67     67 3  

  "  Edward

1 2 2 200     200 3 1 dog

Dunlap, Hugh

1 2           4  

  "  John

1 2           4  

Darick, J. C.

1 2           5  

  "  J. E.

1 2 1 50     50 5 1 dog

  "  John

1 2 5 82     82 5  

Durinage, Jas.

1 2 2 33     33 8  

Ducy, John

1 2           5  

Dwyer, John

0 0 2 45     45 7  

Drake, J. C.

1 2         4    

  "  Phip E.

1 2         4    

Down, P. H.

1 2 1 75 8725   9000 5  

Doyle, H. S.

1 2              

Davis, H. S.

1 2              

 

photo no. 338, photo page 7

 

 

Quadrennial Valuation of Real Estate, Castleton, 1902, letter "D"

 

 

Definitions and Column Codes

First Class Real Estate:  "Buildings with not more than ten acres attached, mills, factories, buildings on public lots, stores, forges, furnaces, mines and quarries, etc.

Second Class Real Estate:  "All other Real Estate, viz.:  Land, including in the appraisal the buildings occupied for the use of a farm and as part of it."

Column C:  "Total Value of Real Estate"

Column D:  "School District"

Names

 

Real Estate C

 

D

 

First Class

Second Class

Acres Description Value Acres

Description

Value
                 
Dogg, C. A. 1 Blacksmith shop 200  

 

  500 5
  1 House Lot 300  

 

  500 5
Daniels, Henry 1 House Lot 200 6

Woodbury

100 300 1
Davis, James       150

Farm

1300 1300 8
Davis, John C. & others       60

Farm

1425 1425 13
Dean, Seth       71

Farm

1500 1500 3
Dean, John ½ House Lot 700  

 

  700 3
Delehanty, James ¾ Hatch 300 19

Farm

1100 1400 5
Delehanty, Edward 7½   450  

 

  450 5
Delehanty, Bridget       2

Kelley

100 100 5
Dempsey, Annie 1 House Lot 700  

 

  700 3
Downs, G. E.       2

Bromley

50 50 4
Downs, Della 1 House Lot 700  

 

  700 4
Dikeman, Nancy Est       23

Farm

300 300 8
Dooley, M. H. ¼ House Lot 300  

 

  300 5
Doren, Owen       200

Farm

700 700 9
Dorr, Julia C. R.       100

Farm

800 800 1
Dersia, R. A.       68½

quarry & pasture

2000 2000 13
Dolan, Geo. T. ¾ House Lot 400  

 

  400 3
Downs, P. H. ½ House Lot 800  

 

  800 5
Downs, Thomas Est. 1½ House Lot 400  

 

  400 5

 

 

photo 339, photo page 7

 

 


 

 

 

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