Take a look at the multi-volume work on the history of the Federal Reserve by Allan Meltzer, Here is a review of Vol. 2:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2011/201159/201159pap.pdf
On colonial tax policy, take a look at Murray Rothbard’s Conceived in Liberty:
http://library.mises.org/sites/default/files/Conceived%20in%20Liberty_Vol_2_2.pdf
Also, look careful at Rothbard’s footnotes and bibliography in Conceived in Liberty and A History of Money and Banking in the U.S. for more sources.
