Burdensome taxes fixed upon the Colonists

If you resided in the Virginia colony in the 17th century, you were not exempted from the taxation of the English lords.  Here is but one burdensome tax. The remuneration of each person conveying the tobacco of others in his sloop or shallow to Jamestown was fixed at ten pounds (per thousand), and the owner of the storehouse in which it was deposited was to receive six pounds of the same proportion.  After the statute became law, however, colonists found a way around it. The planter rolled his tobacco on board the merchantman at his wharf, or transported it in a sloop of his own to a point where the vessel was lying. Since all of the work was provided by his own men, no expense was incurred.  If such a tax were imposed during low prices for tobacco, it would have been intolerable.

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