1From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 19 December 1756 (Franklin Papers)
approve a tax on lands, including those of the Proprietors’, if the proprietary...
2Cash Accounts, June 1763 (Washington Papers)
By the Sheriff for Taxes on Land Negroes & Car[riage]s.
3Examination before the Committee of the Whole of the House of Commons, 13 February 1766 (Franklin Papers)
...is not more burthensome in proportion than the tax on lands. It is intended, and supposed to...
4Marginalia in The True Constitutional Means, an Anonymous Pamphlet, [1769?] (Franklin Papers)
...and would he separately tax them moreover with a Tax on Lands equal to what is paid in...
5Comments on Turgot’s Plan for a Single Tax, [after 3 July? 1777] (Franklin Papers)
...by the former minister, arguing the case for a single tax on land.
6To James Madison from David Jameson, [ca. 12 January] 1782 (Madison Papers)
...intended it to apply only to the tax on land. According to “An act for ascertaining...
7To James Madison from David Jameson, 9 March 1782 (Madison Papers)
...a portion of the revenue derived from the tax on land and certain “articles” should be used to...
8To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 22 November 1782 (Madison Papers)
...the Louisa County petition. Although the Assembly retained the specie tax on land (
9To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 27 December 1782 (Madison Papers)
...on the pound of all sums payable for tax on land and lots, as the same may be...
10Instructions to Virginia Delegates in re Financial Quota, 28 December 1782 (Madison Papers)
...portions of the expected revenue from the tax on land and tax on slaves should “be...