Hi, all. I recently ran across a book containing the results of the 1771 tax list for the Massachusetts colony (which included Maine). The information was collected colony-wide and included a count of adult males (but nobody else). There is lots of other information tallied, but I extracted only some of it: "ratable" polls, "nonratable" polls, estate annual worth, total acreage, and the existence of (A) merchandise, (B) sailing vessels, or (C) money invested at interest. I am enclosing here a list of all the Blanchards I found in the book (based on the index at the back -- I didn't see any Blanchards that weren't in the index). Every person has an eight-digit code consisting of four digits for the town (two giving the modern county and two giving the alphabetical order of the towns within each county) and for for the individual (two giving the relative page number within the town's original handwritten tax listing and two giving the line number on the page). I hope this information helps somebody. I have tentatively identified all of these Blanchards except the three with asterisks after their info. If anybody can suggest where these three fit into the Blanchard picture, I'd be most interested in hearing about it. Note: in three cases, the people listed didn't actually live in the town where their property was, and in two of those, the town where they lived was noted -- and you can see an entry for each of those at home. The third was Thomas Blanchard ("Blancher") shown in Weymouth, who I believe was Thomas[5] (1720-1803) son of Thomas[4] of John[3] of Nathaniel[2]. By 1771, Thomas[5] was living in Abington. I suppose the list for Abington must be incomplete for some reason, as there were no Blanchards. John Chandler - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1771 MA Census NAME CODE RAT-NONRAT INCOME ACRES ETC. in:Boston, MA Hezekiah /Blanchard/ 0101.3404 1-0 L26.13 0 Joshua /Blanchard/ 0101.3802 2-0 L26.13 0 gds Caleb /Blanchard/ 0101.3842 2-0 L40.0 0 gds in:Ashby, MA Benjamin /Blanchard/ 0302.0118 2-0 L3.10 10 in:Bedford, MA Lemuel /Blanchard/ 0304.0309 1-0 L4.0 16 in:Billerica, MA John /Blanchard/ 0306.0250 1-0 L2.8 9 Simon /Blanchard/ Jr 0306.0328 1-0 L0 0 Samuel /Blanchard/ 0306.0421 1-1 L9.10 20 Samuel /Blanchard/ Jr 0306.0422 1-0 L0 5 Simon /Blanchard/ 0306.0524 1-0 L9.0 30 Simon /Blanchard/ Jr 0306.0525 1-0 L0 36 David /Blanchard/ 0306.0710 Woburn L1.10 6 Lemuel /Blanchard/ 0306.0726 Bedford L1.17 9 in:Hopkinton, MA John /Blanchard/ 0320.0437 1-0 L0 0 in:Littleton, MA Jemiah /Blanchard/ 0323.0320 0-0 L3.0 11 in:Malden, MA Silvanus /Blanchard/ 0325.0401 1-0 L16.0 66 in:Medford, MA Aaron /Blanchard/ 0327.0113 3-0 L2.0 3 shp,gds Hezl /Blanchard/ 0327.0114 1-0 L12.0 0 Ebenezer /Blanchard/ 0327.0115 1-0 L2.0 0 shp Samuel /Blanchard/ 0327.0124 1-0 L3.10 4 Samuel /Blanchard/ Jr 0327.0125 1-0 L0 0 in:Pepperell, MA William /Blanchard/ 0332.0226 0-1 L0 0 in:Tewksbury, MA Joseph /Blanchard/ 0341.0246 1-1 L2.13 10 in:Woburn, MA David /Blanchard/ 0353.0706 1-0 L10.9 46 int in:Harvard, MA Joseph /Blanchard/ 0420.0213 2-0 L3.14 13 Lisias /Blanchard/ 0420.0536 1-0 L0 0 in:Williamsburg, MA Benjamin /Blanchard/ 0523.0208 1-0 L0 0 in:Deerfield, MA Joshua /Blanchard/ 0707.0336 2-0 L1.0 8 in:Shutesbury, MA Isaac /Blanchard/ 0722.0123 1-0 L0 0 Abiel /Blanchard/ 0722.0147 1-0 L0.15 11 Nathaniel /Blanchard/ 0722.0153 1-0 L3.19 18 in:Tyringham, MA Abiathar /Blanchard/ 0832.0235 1-0 L0 0 in:Brookline, MA Fra. /Blanchard/ 0903.0214 1-0 L1.0 0 in:Stoughton, MA Samuel /Blanchard/ 0919.0719 2-0 L3.0 12 William /Blanchard/ 0919.0725 1-0 L0 4 in:Weymouth, MA Thomas /Blancher/ 0922.0112 nonres L0 5 Daniel /Blancher/ 0922.0205 2-0 L16.13 21 Samuel /Blancher/ 0922.0206 1-0 L1.13 10 Samuel /Blancher/ Jr 0922.0207 2-0 L8.7 44 Nicholas /Blancher/ 0922.0208 1-0 L2.13 28 Adam /Blancher/ 0922.0209 1-0 L4.0 31 Mary /Blancher/ wid 0922.0210 2-0 L0.16 5 Jonathan /Blancher/ 0922.0238 1-0 L2.13 18 David /Blancher/ 0922.0812 1-0 L8.13 19 shp,gds,int in:Stoughtonham, MA Josiah /Blanchard/ 0924.0124 1-0 L2.10 4 ** in:N Yarmouth, ME Joseph /Blanchard/ 1508.0105 2-0 L6.0 25 shp,int Elias /Blanchard/ 1508.0106 1-0 L6.10 25 shp Joshua /Blanchard/ 1508.0107 1-0 L2.3 14 Nathaniel /Blanchard/Jr 1508.0108 2-0 L7.0 37 shp Josiah /Blanchard/ 1508.0307 1-0 L0 0 ** Isaiah /Blanchard/ 1508.0322 1-0 L0.13 10 **