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Showing posts with label Hillsborough. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hillsborough. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 13, 2023

“The Displeasure of our Honoured Masters”

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Sir Francis Dashwood, baronet , served as chancellor of the exchequer in the government of the Earl of Bute . That went poorly for both of t...
Thursday, May 19, 2022

“The most clement measures shall be adopted towards the Americans”

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By the fall of 1772, Rhode Island ’s investigations of the attack on H.M.S. Gaspee had run aground as surely as the schooner itself had bac...
Sunday, October 04, 2020

Arthur Lee “in the light of a rival”

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Yesterday I quoted two letters from Samuel Adams in 1771, the first recommending William Story to a lobbyist in London and the second w...
Saturday, October 03, 2020

Samuel Adams’s Two Character References for William Story

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When William Story was preparing to sail to London in late 1771, Thomas Cushing wasn’t the only Massachusetts Whig he asked for a letter...
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...
Sunday, August 04, 2019

“I was not called home in the Way of Disgrace”

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Two weeks after Gov. Sir Francis Bernard left Boston, the town’s Sons of Liberty hosted a big festive banquet. The date was 14 Aug 1769, ...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018

What the Circular Letter of 1768 Signified

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You may have noticed how in all these postings about the Massachusetts House ’s Circular Letter of 1768 , quoting politicians on the circu...
Sunday, June 24, 2018

“I hereby send you a Copy of the other Part of the Letter”

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On 23 June 1768, a committee from the Massachusetts General Court asked Gov. Francis Bernard for documents related to the House’s circul...
Friday, June 22, 2018

“A Speech near two hours long of the most violent & virulent Nature”

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By mid-June 1768, the Massachusetts House had received several favorable responses to the circular letter that the previous elected asse...
Thursday, June 21, 2018

“A Measure of so inflammatory a Nature”

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In February 1768, the Massachusetts House sent its soon-to-be-famous Circular Latter to other colonial legislatures. That same month, ...
Saturday, June 16, 2018

“Preserving a perfect Conciliation”

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Late on 14 June 1768, a large committee from Boston town meeting headed by James Otis, Jr. , visited Gov. Francis Bernard at his country...
Wednesday, September 06, 2017

“Destroying all party distinctions”

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As stated in a passage I quoted a couple of days ago, soon after Charles Townshend died, his post as Chancellor of the Exchequer was offe...