<petition><petition_analysis_number>11278001</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11278001</petition_url><state>North Carolina</state><county>Chowan</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>1</file_day><file_month>9</file_month><file_year>1780</file_year><filing_court>Petition</filing_court><enslaved_count>0</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>10</total_people_count><repository>North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina</repository><abstract>Twenty-nine inhabitants of Edenton complain about an inequitable tax structure in which money and stock, not being assessed, were taxed higher than slaves, who were assessed but at considerably less than their market value.  They request that money be taxed at the same rate as slaves.</abstract><subjects><subject>Taxation (enslaved)</subject></subjects></petition>