Petition #11278001

• Chowan County, North Carolina. filing started September 1, 1780.
• Court: Petition
• Salutation: To the Honorable the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina

Abstract

Twenty-nine inhabitants of Edenton complain about an inequitable tax structure in which money and stock, not being assessed, were taxed higher than slaves, who were assessed but at considerably less than their market value. They request that money be taxed at the same rate as slaves.

• Number of petition pages: 3
• Pages of related documents: 0

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Citation information

Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina

• General Assembly, Session Records, Miscellaneous Petitions and Accounts, Session R, August-September 1780

Subjects

• Taxation (enslaved)