tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post2253694826051781045..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: Annapolis Commemorates the Stamp Act Protests, 19-25 Oct.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-64320268313555591252022-08-28T20:00:07.798-05:002022-08-28T20:00:07.798-05:00We know Franklin secured the post of stamp agent i...We know Franklin secured the post of stamp agent in Pennsylvania for one of his friends, so that makes sense. (It didn’t work out for the Philadelphia friend, either.) J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-11914705658108600582022-08-27T15:00:06.733-05:002022-08-27T15:00:06.733-05:00According to Benson Lossing's 1850 Pictorial ...According to Benson Lossing's 1850 <i> Pictorial Field-Book of The Revolution </i>, Vol 2, p. 400, Hood was appointed on the recommendation of Benjamin Franklin (who was in London at the time). Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08859125602809246773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-39859845568713849172015-10-16T09:34:18.247-05:002015-10-16T09:34:18.247-05:00Jared Ingersoll (Connecticut’s stamp agent) said m...Jared Ingersoll (Connecticut’s stamp agent) said most of the recommendations came from London alderman Barlow Trecothick. He was a leader among the London merchants doing business with North America and had worked in Boston under Charles Apthorp, whose daughter he married. Ingersoll said that Trecothick had opposed the Stamp Act, and that he was asked to suggest men who would be acceptable in each colony as members of the merchant community rather than as men already seen as dependent on the royal establishment. Ingersoll left unstated how much lobbying he and some others did for the job while they were in London. J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-14413473383675882262015-10-15T21:59:23.193-05:002015-10-15T21:59:23.193-05:00JL,
My apologies if you mentioned this in one of y...JL,<br />My apologies if you mentioned this in one of your posts, but have you seen anything definitive about who selected and appointed the stamp distributors? Wikipedia indicates it was Prime Minister Grenville, but I have a hard time believing Grenville would have had time to review and select the stamp distributor candidates. I think it would have been more likely that the Secretary of the Southern Department (later the American Department) would have overseen the selection process. I curious because I wonder whether there any similarities with the process for selecting stamp distributors and the process used eight years later to select the tea consignees for the East India Co. The tea consignees were supposedly selected by the EIC, but based on the level of loyalty, the ministry probably had a heavy hand in the selections. <br />Thanks,<br />Dan CornetteDCChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18031064189417154766noreply@blogger.com