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Showing posts with label Barlow Trecothick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barlow Trecothick. Show all posts
Sunday, June 21, 2020

Alarming News from Across the Atlantic

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On 21 June 1770, 250 years ago today , the Boston News-Letter reported startling news from London. So startling that Richard Draper adde...
Monday, January 28, 2019

Deciphering the Boston Whigs’ Conspiracy Rumors

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What with The Saga of the Brazen Head , the January 1775 brawl between British army officers and watchmen , the federal government shutdow...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

“The right of representation and taxation always went together”

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Having spent a week on the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights , I’m going to jump back to 250 years ago and Parliament ’s debate over w...
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Thursday, December 10, 2015

The Marquess of Rockingham’s Stamp Act Revisions

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I’m going to break from the campus debate over revising now-problematic symbols to catch up with developments in 1765 concerning the Stamp...
Saturday, September 19, 2015

“About Five Hundred Men, all on Horseback, and having white Staves”

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When Boston 1775 last left Connecticut stamp agent Jared Ingersoll , he’d been hanged and burned in effigy in half a dozen towns , a cro...
Sunday, September 13, 2015

A Preemptive Resignation from New York’s Stamp Agent

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After Parliament enacted the Stamp Act in early 1765, Treasury Department officials asked London alderman Barlow Trecothick for recommend...