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Subject: Re: Rent Rolls vs. Tax Lists ??? Re: [LDR] Re: Tax Lists
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 13:42:12 -0000
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Dear Janet:
Good to hear from you. In many cases, the taxes were somewhat the
same, land, property--taxables-- heads in the household, ordinary licenses,
you name it. But in Maryland the taxes and "duties" were more, as there
were a lot of fees, what not that went directly into the pockets of the
Calvert family. The rent rolls are a case in point. The quit rents
due--which were annual rents assessed on land--went directly into the
coffers of the Calverts. Also levied, were duties assessed per hogshead of
tobacco shipped from Maryland which went to the Calverts. There was a great
deal of animosity over these duties, and how they were to be used. The
lower house of the assembly and the upper house (which was the Prerogative
COurt as well, and were Calvert appointees) regularly tangled over the
duties assessed on tobacco.
I will be back to you in a bit on more of the same.
<<<Neil>>>
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Subject: Rent Rolls vs. Tax Lists ??? Re: [LDR] Re: Tax Lists


> Neil...anybody,
>
> I am trying to sort out what these various lists are. In Virginia, in the
> early days after the Revolution at least (everyone interested in Accomac
and
> Northampton listen up), there are two kinds of taxes that had to be paid
by
> individuals directly to their governing authority (county,city):
>
> (1) the land tax, on property owned (ie, real estate taxes today);
>
> and (2) personal property taxes on such things as (depending upon the
year):
> slaves, horses, cows, ordinaries, stud horses, billiard tables, "wheels"
(ie,
> carriages, phaetons, curricles...NOT farm wagons...designed for the
transport
> of people about)...like the dreaded Virginia car tax today.
>
> My question: How does this compare to the rent rolls, tax lists we
discuss
> with respect to Maryland?...And now re Virginia -- land & personal
property
> tax lists of Northampton and Accomac
>
> I don't know if we have discussed it here, but there is a wonderful site
> being gradually put together by two volunteer researchers who are
> photographing all of the original land and personal property tax lists for
VA
> counties in 1790 and 1800, and putting the images up on a website.
> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~ysbinns/vataxlists/
>
> They don't have either Accomac or Northampton lists up (they don't have
alot
> of counties), but I will email them and see what their plans are. In the
> meantime you can go take a look at what they do have as I imagine that a
> number of you have ancestors from "over there".
>
> (Edmund Scarborough's attempt to secede from Virginia with Accomac and
> Northampton in the 1660s or so may not have actually succeeded in fact,
but
> it probably has in the minds of most for practical purposes. I personally
> forget when I think about my VA ancestors about the ones that started out
in
> Accomac & Northampton, then moved to the more politcally hospitable
Somerset.)
>
> My best regards,
> Janet Hunter
>
>
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