Składka publiczna obywateli powiatu nurskiego 1789 r.
Public donation in the powiat of Nursk in 1789

Summary/Abstract: At the end of 1788 the Four-Year Sejm passed the law titled “Voluntary donation to burning needs of the homeland”, the motivation for which was the need to collect money for 100,000 army of the republic. Documentation of this money collection burnt down together with the Warsaw archives in 1944. Thanks to AGAD, a modern search query, and its Acquisition Unit I, it was possible to find a copy of the registry of the public collection for the Nur Land in the Masovian Voivodship. The registry provides mostly information about local nobility (names, patronymic, surnames, possessions, posts, payments) and in particular about bourgeois and peasants (collective data on payments) who also participated in the money collection. Therefore, the registry is a valuable source for studies over genealogy of the Nur nobility, and it should be compared with tax rates typical of that region at the end of 18th century. Owing to the voluntary character of the payment, the registry does not cover all the Nur possession owners.

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