Assessors, Rochester, New Hampshire, 1738-1816
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Assessors were first chosen in 1738. In 1818, it was voted not to choose assessors, and in 1819 Jonathan Dame and James Tebbets were chosen, but afterwards excused from serving. Since that time to the present the selectmen have been the assessors, except in 1844, when Nathaniel D. Wetmore and Thomas McDuffee were appointed. The following is a complete list of assessors in Rochester:--
Assessors - Rochester, New Hampshire, 1738-1816
- Benjamin Forst, 1738.
- Samuel Twombly, 1738, '40, '42, '78.
- John Macfee, 1739, '42, '44, '56.
- John Allen, 1739.
- Jonathan Copps, 1739.
- John Jenness, 1740, '45, '48.
- Paul Tebbets, 1741.
- Benjamin Hayes, 1741.
- Edward Tebbets, 1743.
- Richard Wentworth, 1743, '48, '54, '57.
- John Layton, 1744, '54.
- James Place, 1745, '46.
- Joseph Tebbetts, 1746, '47.
- Alexander Hodgdon, 1747.
- Richard Winford, 1749.
- Thomas Brown, 1749.
- Ichabod Horn, 1750.
- Richard Bickford, 1750, '53, '60.
- Daniel Wingate, 1751, '52, '67 to '72.
- Mark Jenness, 1751, '53.
- John Trickey, 1752, '55.
- William Jenness, 1755.
- William Allen, 1756, '61.
- Richard Nutter, 1757.
- Moses Hayes, 1758.
- Jonathan Ham, 1758, '65.
- Isaac Miller, 1759.
- James Knowles, 1759.
- James Rogers, Jr., 1760.
- Ebenezer Chamberlain, 1761, '62.
- Eleazar Colman, 1762.
- William Chamberlain, 1763, '68.
- Isaac Libbey, 1763.
- David Copps, 1764.
- Wentworth Hayes, 1764.
- Jabez Dame, 1765, '73, '74, '81.
- John Witherell, 1766.
- Samuel Leighton, 1766, '67, '69 to '72.
- Moses Brown, 1773, '74.
- Barnabas Palmer, 1775.
- William McNeal, 1775.
- Richard Place, 1776, '80, '89.
- Tobias Twombly, 1776.
- Alexander Hodgdon, Jr., 1777, '80.
- Joseph Pearl, 1778.
- William McDuffee, 1779, '80, '82 to '84.
- Ichabod Corson, 1779, '83 to '86, '90.
- Samuel Nute, 1781, '88.
- John Brewster, 1782.
- James Howe, 1785, '86, '94.
- Jacob Hanson, 1787, '95, '98, 1804, '07.
- David Place, 1787.
- Richard Furber, 1788, '91, '92.
- Samuel Plumer, 1789.
- Daniel Rogers, 1790.
- Aaron Wingate, 1791.
- Paul Libbey, 1792, '93.
- Edward Rollins, 1793.
- Ephraim Kimball, 1794.
- Daniel Dame, 1795 to '99, 1801, '02, '06 to '10.
- Joseph Plumer, 1796.
- Anthony Peavey, 1796.
- James Hayes, 1797.
- John Murray, 1797, '98.
- Daniel Hayes, 1798.
- Joseph Clark, 1799.
- William Palmer, 1800.
- Richard Hayes, 1800.
- Tobias Twombly, Jr., 1801, '08.
- Joshua Allen, 1806.
- John Barker, 1809.
- Nathaniel Upham, 1810, '16.
- Jonas C. March, 1811, '13, '17.
- Joseph Sherburne, 1811.
- James Tebbets, 1812, '14, '17.
- John Smith, 1812.
- Hatevil Knight, 1813.
- Moses Hale, 1814 to '16.
- Richard Dame, 1815, '16.
In addition to the regular assessors as given above, the following were chosen to take inventories of ratable polls and estates. In 1767 pasture lands are specially mentioned, and it was voted "that the pasture land should be taxed as the law directs, and what will pasture a cow be four acres."
- Mark Jenness, 1745.
- Joseph Walker, 1747.
- John Leighton, 1747.
- Isaac Libbey, 1749, '67.
- Ichabod Corson, 1767.
- Samuel Leighton, 1767.
- James McDuffee, 1767.
- Barnabas Palmer, 1773 to '76.
In 1859 Richard T. Rogers, John F. McDuffee, and Stephen Shorey were chosen to make a new valuation of all real estate in town.