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Showing posts with label Andrew Oliver. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Andrew Oliver. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 20, 2026

“Remaining unpaid of Mr. Adams Debt to the Town”

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A couple of days ago I recounted how in March 1771 the Boston town meeting appointed the merchant William Whitwell and four other men to ...
Thursday, April 10, 2025

“That the leaning of the writer of the above might not be mistaken…”

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Yesterday I quoted most of the Boston News-Letter ’s 22 Aug 1765 report on the first anti- Stamp Act protest the week before. In 1856 Sa...
Wednesday, April 09, 2025

Richard Draper’s “Report of these Images”

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As long as I’m discussing nomenclature for Boston’s political groups in the 1760s, I’ll tackle “the Union Club.” America’s first public, ...
Sunday, January 05, 2025

Mapping Boston in 1795

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ARGO (American Revolutionary Geographies Online) offers a new article by John W. Mackey titled “Practical Knowledge and the New Republic.” ...
Thursday, February 29, 2024

A Busy Week in Boston in March 1774

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Even before Lt. Gov. Andrew Oliver died on 3 Mar 1774, Gov. Thomas Hutchinson knew he had to postpone his trip to Britain. Oliver would ...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

“I cannot shew any Countenance to it”

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When the Massachusetts house informed Gov. Thomas Hutchinson on 25 Feb 1774 that it had voted to impeach Chief Justice Peter Oliver , his...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

“A Recess that I may attend to that Preparation for my Voyage”

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On 24 Feb 1774, the day that the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court voted to impeach Chief Justice Peter Oliver , Gov. Thomas H...
Thursday, October 06, 2022

“They understood he was not the person intended”

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One of the minor but telling disagreements between Josiah Quincy, Jr. , and the government ministers he met in London in November 1774 invol...
Wednesday, September 08, 2021

“Stamp Act Memes” Online Talk on 9 Sept.

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On Thursday, 9 September, I’ll deliver the latest version of my online talk “How Americans Fought the Stamp Act with Memes” via the America...
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Wednesday, March 31, 2021

“Upon his Interment a large Mob attended”

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As I described yesterday , the funeral of Lt. Gov. Andrew Oliver on 8 Mar 1774 did not go smoothly. Some of Oliver’s close friends and re...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

A Funeral Procession for Andrew Oliver

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I started this month reviewing the events of early March 1774: the return of the Massachusetts Spy , the death of Lt. Gov. Andrew Oliver (s...
Sunday, March 28, 2021

The Influence of a Stamp Act Cartoon

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The more I thought about the British cartoon “The Deplorable State of America or S——ch Government,” shown above, the more I wondered about ...
Friday, March 12, 2021

“The same Spirit spreads like a Contagion”

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I’m returning to the second Boston Tea Party and the other events of March 1774. And who better to ease us into that mindset than John Adam...
Friday, March 05, 2021

“My sincere attachment to the interest of my country”

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On the morning of 3 Mar 1774, Andrew Oliver , lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, died. He had previously held the offices of provincial ...
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Thursday, December 31, 2020

“A determination to discourage a faithful Servant of the Crown”

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For acting governor Thomas Hutchinson , the dispute between his Council and the provincial secretary Andrew Oliver was yet one more head...
Wednesday, December 30, 2020

“The breach of a most essential privilege of this Board”

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On 12 Oct 1770, eight members of the Massachusetts Council delivered their depositions about what had happened on 6 March, the day after th...
Tuesday, December 29, 2020

The Massachusetts Council Investigates Itself

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Yesterday we left off as provincial secretary Andrew Oliver ’s sworn statement about what members of the Massachusetts Council had said o...