Taxation in Colonial AmericaTaxation in Colonial America examines life in the thirteen original American colonies through the revealing lens of the taxes levied on and by the colonists. Spanning the turbulent years from the founding of the Jamestown settlement to the outbreak of the American Revolution, Alvin Rabushka provides the definitive history of taxation in the colonial era, and sets it against the backdrop of enormous economic, political, and social upheaval in the colonies and Europe. |
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... records in Virginia. A fire destroyed a large number of manuscripts in the New York State Library, which precludes a comprehensive accounting of the colony's public finances between 1758 and 1764, with only fragmentary records surviving ...
... records. Records listing receipts from duties on British imports of colonial rice that were stored in the House of Commons were destroyed by a fire that burned down the old houses of Parliament in 1824. Even detailed records on every ...
... Records. The documents include sporadic records of the colonial treasurers in Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania (Penn's personal accounts), and South Carolina. The collection also includes ...
... records were generally kept in the proprietary colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland since the Penns and Calverts personally profited from their ownership of land. Records in New Hampshire and Virginia are intermittent, available in ...
... Records of county, town, and religious taxes levied and paid are generally located in the towns and vestries, not in a central repository. Dispersal of records makes it extremely difficult to compile a comprehensive tally of local taxes ...
Contents
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Turmoil in EnglandGrowth in the Colonies 16071688 | 65 |
War in EuropeOpportunity in the Colonies 16881714 | 271 |
Salutary Neglect in the Colonies 17141739 | 441 |
War Debt Money and Taxes Prelude to Imperial Intervention 17391763 | 559 |
An American Tax 17631775 | 713 |
CONCLUSION | 865 |
APPENDIX | 871 |
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INDEX | 915 |