Boston 1775

We met Thomas James as a major in the Royal Artillery stationed in New York in 1765. After he vowed to protect the stamped paper and said...

The Rockingham government’s strategy to extricate itself from the unenforceable Stamp Act and yet maintain Parliament ’s authority was t...

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...

Since there’s no better time to quote carrier verses about the Stamp Act than now, the sestercentennial of the period when that law rem...

As we recall , late on the night of 1 Nov 1765, an anti- Stamp Act mob in New York destroyed the home of Maj. Thomas James of the Royal ...

When New Yorkers were demonstrating against the Stamp Act on the night of 1 Nov 1765, they knew that the colony’s supply of stamped pape...

As I noted back here , the designated Stamp Tax collector for New York , James McEvers , resigned that post on 26 Aug 1765, after hearing a...