Letter to Pierre Van Cortlandt re: plate tax, 1790
Entry/Object ID
HHV 002.27
Description
Letter requesting balance of plate tax from Pierre Van Cortlandt
Subject
taxation, slavery
Subject Person/Organization
Pierre Van Cortlandt (1721-1814)
Subject Place
* Untyped Subject Place
Rhinebeck, New York, Westchester County
Context
1790
Collection
Van Cortlandt Manuscript Collection
Transcription
Judd, Vol II, page 517-518
Other Names and Numbers
Other Numbers
Number Type
Former Number
Other Number
V 1862
Research Notes
Notes
Pierre Van Cortlandt owed plate tax for the year 1782, when he was taxed on "one Negro man three Negro women one watch dog " as well as for his monetary holdings. Given that the letter is sent from a collector in Amenia, near Rhinebeck, it may be that this tax payment stems from Van Cortlandt's time in Rhinebeck during the Revolutionary War, and not from his Westchester County home.
