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Volume contains: 136 AD 760 (In re NY Central & Hudson River Railroad Co) 137 AD 892 (In re Cooke v. Hamlin) 136 AD 781 (In re Lally's will) 137 AD 39 (In re Pfizenmayer v. City of New York) 136 AD 843 (Title Guarantee & Trust Co v. Brown) 138 AD 43 (In re Mary Fox et al. v. Fox) 137 AD 866 (In re Estate of Starbuck) 137 AD 893 (In re United Building Material Co) 137 AD 901 (In re Hannah Gill)
In 1798, the federal government levied its first direct tax on American citizens, one that seemed to favor land speculators over farmers. In eastern Pennsylvania, the tax assessors were largely Quakers and Moravians who had abstained from Revolutionary participation and were recruited by the administration of John Adams to levy taxes against their patriot German Reformed and Lutheran neighbors. Led by local Revolutionary hero John Fries, the farmers drew on the rituals of crowd action and stopped the assessment. Following the Shays and Whiskey rebellions, Fries's Rebellion was the last in a trilogy of popular uprisings against federal authority in the early republic. But in contrast to the p...
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