Just as a sort of single-example FYI, the following is from the essay "The Colonial Roots of American Taxation, 1607-1700," by Alvin Rabushka, on the Hoover Institution website:
"Early New Yorkers were also subject to import duties and excises. The English takeover of New York in 1664 imposed English rates. Liquors were taxed at 10 percent. All other merchandise imports gradually became subject to ad valorem duties, with preferential rates given to imports from England. Non-English goods were taxed at 8 percent, while English goods paid 5 percent. Export duties of 10.5 percent were charged on peltries and 2d. per pound of tobacco, to be paid in beaver and wampum. In 1674, the duty on English merchandise was reduced to 2 percent."
Elsewhere in the work it is pointed out that -- since the system was essentially 'rigged' to insure that hard currency flowed from the Colonies to England, and not vice versa -- taxes of all kinds were very often paid in goods rather than currency, which was always in short supply.