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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... Collected and Discharged, 1749–1765 22.4. Pennsylvania Excises, Interest, and Provincial Payments, 1739/40–1753/54 22.5. Pennsylvania Bills of Credit, Schedule of Payments, Total Bills Redeemed, Taxes Received, British Reimbursement ...
... collected in ways that make it difficult to distinguish among individual colonies or specific taxes. Drawing on public documents and private papers in British and American archives, most scholars have sampled data for selected years to ...
... collecting, and recording taxes, especially direct taxes on property and income. The important information was contained in the financial records of the commissioners of loan offices. When taxes ... collected, but [ 11 ] introduction.
... collected. During 1701–12 in New Hampshire, for example, the colonial treasurer and receiver-general, Sam Penhallow, listed as a debit the approved tax on polls and estates but not actual receipts of the tax, although he listed actual ...
... collected in each colony are discussed in the respective chapters. In many of the tables throughout the book I have presented the numbers in pounds, shillings, pence, and farthings, rather than rounding to the nearest pound. The ...
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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 |