VanBuren County

Columbia Township 1839 Assessment Rolls

Recorded under South Haven Township No. 1 South and No. 15 West


Silas Breed, section 33, 80 acres:  aggregate of real and personal estate, $1090;  saw-mill $700

Elijah Knowles, section 32, 160 acres; aggregate of real and personal estate, $720

Hervey Manley, section 29, 240 acres; aggregate of real and personal estate $770

Jonathan N. Howard, sections 19, 28, 240 acres;  aggregate of real and personal estate, $705

J.M. Babbitt, sections 1, 33, 160 acres; aggregate of real and personal estate, $515

Myron Hoskins, sections 26, 32, 33, 880 acres;  aggregate of real and personal estate  $880

Leonard Watson, section 33, 40 acres; aggregate of real and personal estate, $140

Amos S. Brown, section 32, 160 acres;  aggregate of real and personal estate, $765

Luman Brown, section 32, 80 acres;  aggregate of real and personal estate, $240

Jephtha Waterman, section 35, 69 acres;  aggregate of real and personal estate, $162

Horace Humphrey, section 1, 40 acres;  aggregate of real and personal estate, $120

Joseph Peck,* section 1, 80 acres;  aggregate of real and personal estate, $240

D.C. Ackley, section 29, 80 acres;  aggregate of real and personal estate, $240

*Joseph Peck, of "Pecktown," was a resident of the township of Bloomingdale, section 6, but owned land on section 1, in this township.

Other names added to the rolls in 1840 were those of William A. Babbitt, Henry Babbitt, and Dustin Murch, and the total amount of taxes paid by the residents in that year was $30.23.