Wayne County, NC - General Assembly Records General Assembly Papers, Jan-Feb 1781, House Joint Resolution, Jan 29-Feb 1, Box 1 To the General Assembly of No. Carolina The Remonstrance of the People Call'd Quakers Residing in Wayne County, sheweth that divers acts of Assembly past some time past Relating to the Taxes is Rigorously put in Execution against us the said people in this County, which we Charitably believe to extend further then was intended by the said Acts, when they were passed, therefore we make bold to lay our present case before you hoping you may take it under your Solid Consideration and in Wisdom grant us Relief as you may think proper, and we believe it will Redound more to General Satisfaction then to hear that our Estates is taken from us by those that never Labour'd for them, and we Oblig'd to beg of our Neighbours to give us leave to be on their floors for want of our own houses and beds, which in all probability will be taken for Tax, Therefore not being willing farther to Expose those that are in Authority over us, we think it our duty to lay before your Consideration our Cituation, and a list of Several of our publick Taxes without any acct. of the County or parish Taxes therein, which is as follows, an Acct. of the amounts of the Taxable property with the publick Tax for the year 1780 Silas Hollowells Taxable property amounts to £2323 and the public Tax thereon, amounts to £2090=14=0 David Newsom £1800 and the Tax thereon £1620 Josiah Peelle £1370 and the Tax thereon £1233 Joshua Davis £5530 and the Tax thereon £4977 The Grain Tax demanded of Joshua Davis is near 40 barrels and the rest of us taxed in the same Manner according to the Value of our Estates the 22nd of the 1st Mo 1781 Signed by the Representatives of s'd Society in the County aforesaid Thomas Saint Thomas Edgerton Richard Davies Silas Hollowell John Hastings Joshua Davis Jun Joshua Davis Benjamin Morris William Lancaster Joel Gilbert John Davis Zackariah Morris Jesse Bogue Benjamin Arnold Edmund Mandlin Josiah Bogue Elisha Parker __________________________________________________________________________ USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. The electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Guy Potts __________________________________________________________________________