salem_village: Salem village
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A dataset containing tax list of everyone who appeared on the tax assessment rolls for 1690, 1695, and 1697. This is a "a good, though imperfect, indicator of the village's adult male population" plus some widows (and excluding young men who were not independent).

1	salem_village

A data frame with 137 rows and 5 variables:

Name: Name of taxpayer (may be a family)
Petition: Did this person sign either the pro- or anti-Parris petition in 1695
Church.to.1696: Was the person a member of any church through 1696
Sort: ID from original data set

May be merged with the tax_comparison data set based on name matching, but care should be taken to review and make judgements about matching.

https://www.tulane.edu/~salem/Salem%20Village%20Data%20Set.html

salem documentation built on Jan. 13, 2021, 6:35 a.m.