The following is a list of the names of resident tax-payers in the township of Brighton in 1843, being taken from the assessment-roll for that year. The largest tax was paid by Jacintha Clark, this amount being $45.71.
| Israel Arms | Job Cranston | Barak Gibbs | Thomas Lea | Jesse Matteson |
| John Andrews | Dr. Thomas Curtis | Hugh Gordon | Richard Lyon | Elijah Marsh |
| Harry A. Andrews | Mary Carpenter | F. W. Goodenow | R. L. Lane | D. C. Marsh |
| John Appleton | Samuel M. Conely | Michael Gaffney | Jacob Leroy | Allen McDonald |
| Edwin Ackley | Cushing & Gordon | Eben Hand | Moses Lyon | William Palmer |
| Seth Bidwell | Jacintha Clark | Jabez Haight | William McCauley | Abel Palmer |
| Melzer Bird | John Dean | Warren Hill | William Moore | Jonathan Post |
| Gardner Bird | A. P. Dickinson | Nelson House | Ezra Macomber | Nehemiah Paine |
| Stephen Baker | Fred. Dickinson | John Henry | William Noble | Amos Rogers |
| John B. Burnham | Jacobus Davis | Godfred Hyne | Charles Norton | Sumner Ross |
| George W. Burch | Edward Durfee | Edmund Johnson | Norton & Power | 0. A. Ross |
| George D. Bailey | Sherman D. Dix | John Johnson | Issacher Osborn | H. P. Ross |
| John S. Beach | Franklin Dart | David Jolly | John Osborn | B. Searle |
| William Brown | H. Doine | Jos. M. Johnson | Osborn & Post | Robert Sleaford |
| Smith Beach | Peter Delamater | Marsena Jourden | Jacob Peters | Allen Stephens |
| Ansel Crippen | Robert Edgar | Barnard Kelley | Granger Pease | Elias Sprague |
| John Cushing | Louis B. Fonda | Aaron H. Kelley | John W. Peavey | James Seed |
| Benjamin Cushing | Wilber Fisher | Robt. and Mary Kennedy | William Parker | J. A. Sterling |
| Mrs. Curry | Fields & Appleton | John Lane | Luther Parshall | N. Sullivan |
| William Cushing | Nelson Fuller | James B. Lee | Owen Pierce | Andrew Shiner |
| William Cobb | J. Goodspeed | Alvin N. Loveridge | R. D. Power. | Joshua Sheffield |
| William Cooper | Malcomb Fitch | J. B. & D. R. Lee | Daniel Lane | Benjamin Sawyer |
| James Covey | W. R. Field | Harvey T. Lee | Lectus Lane |
