Friday, July 31, 2009
Anchor Fox and Uriah Bonham
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"In 1778 Uriah Bonham was taxed on...[among other things]... a single man (his son Amos)."
ReplyDeleteSounds like reason enough, right there, for a revolution.
That is the first I've heard of this tax scheme. Would he also have been taxed on a daughter, or was Amos considered farm labor, contributing to the value created on the farm?
Roger: In the 18th century, single men living in someone else's household were taxed. There were two categories: single men, and single men with horse. Who paid the tax is a question. In the case of single men living with their fathers, probably the father paid the tax. There were several single men living in households not related to them. In that case, perhaps those single men were expected to pay the tax. However, under the apprentice system, the apprentice was often treated like a member of the family, so the householder may have paid the tax in that case too.
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