Here’s an early example (mid-17th century) of Quaker war tax resistance, from the journal of Ambrose Rigge:
[M]y father-in-law, Thomas Luxford… hath also suffered many years, for refusing to send in arms from year to year, to the value of between twenty and thirty pounds, for which, one year, they took away his wife’s bed and bedding, as soon as she was risen out of it, for one year’s tax for drums and colours.
