Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., Census, 1707

Source Information

Ancestry.com. Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., Census, 1707 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.

Original data: A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston Containing Miscellaneous Papers. Boston, MA, USA: Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, 1886.

About Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., Census, 1707

This database is a census taken in 1707 in Boston, Massachusetts. It includes information such as the names of the residents, if they are widowed, how many Negroes they own, and the name of their landlord. The census was probably taken for tax purposes and thus contains information pertinent to such. The data is part of a larger collection of assorted papers that comprise A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston Containing Miscellaneous Papers.

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