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Showing posts with label Townshend Act. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Townshend Act. Show all posts
Sunday, August 03, 2025

John Hancock Sees a Chance to Do a Favor for Thomas Longman

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My ears perked up at this announcement from the Colonial Society of Massachusetts: The Colonial Society is publishing the Papers of John Han...
Sunday, February 02, 2025

“The seller is nothing less than a collector of the tax”

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Here are some paragraphs from the seventh Letter from a Farmer in Pennsylvania , John Dickinson ’s 1767–68 essays arguing against the Townsh...
Friday, June 07, 2024

“The Remains of Captain Daniel Malcom”

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On Thursday, 26 Oct 1769, the Boston News-Letter announced: On Monday last departed this Life, Capt. DANIEL MALCOM , of this Town, Merchan...
Saturday, February 24, 2024

Two Salaries for Chief Justice Peter Oliver

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One of the Massachusetts Whigs’ complaint about Thomas Hutchinson in the 1760s is that he amassed too many offices for himself. Hutchinso...
Friday, February 23, 2024

“Becoming dependent for their Salaries upon their Crown”

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The dispute that led to colonial Massachusetts’s second impeachment action started with the Townshend Acts of 1767. Parliament imposed n...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Lexington and the “subtle, wicked ministerial plan”

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Last week I analyzed the accounts of tea burning in Marshfield 250 years ago and concluded that I found no strong evidence for the exa...
Friday, August 11, 2023

“Only the tax on tea retained”

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In a conversation earlier this week I shared, and not for the first time, an observation about Lord North ’s repeal of the Townshend duties ...
Wednesday, June 14, 2023

“A grateful Sense of your Lordship’s Good-will”

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Only a few pieces of correspondence between Baron le Despencer and Benjamin Franklin survive in the Franklin Papers, but they show a devel...
Monday, August 10, 2020

“My succeeding to the post he holds from the crown”

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Almost three years after Nathaniel Rogers died suddenly, he was back in the news. Rogers was the author of one of the “Hutchinson Lette...
Saturday, August 01, 2020

Non-Importation from the Beginning

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On 1 Aug 1768, the merchants of Boston agreed to non-importation as a way to pressure London into repealing the Townshend duties . Thei...
Friday, May 29, 2020

Preparing for the Political Season to Reopen

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Back in May 1768, the Massachusetts General Court added seven Whig House members involved in the Circular Letter dispute to the Council ...
Thursday, March 26, 2020

“The Committee reserve all the printed Copies”

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On Monday, 26 Mar 1770, 250 years ago today , the inhabitants of Boston once again gathered in Faneuil Hall for a town meeting . Technica...
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

“A youth, son to Captain John Gore”

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The older boy wounded by Ebenezer Richardson ’s shot on 22 Feb 1770 was nineteen-year-old Samuel Gore . He appears here in his early-17...
Tuesday, February 11, 2020

The Great 1770 Quiz Answers, Part 1

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Thanks to everyone who puzzled over the Great 1770 Quiz , whether or not you entered answers in the comments! It looks like the competitio...
Friday, April 12, 2019

“Why does not this Man make his Letters publick?”

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Thomas Hutchinson wasn’t the first royal governor of Massachusetts to see his letters to officials in London published and pilloried back...
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Saturday, February 02, 2019

“The Indiscretion of a very few Persons of the lowest Class”

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The burning of effigies in New York City on 14 Nov 1768 prompted a strong response from the royal governor of that colony, Sir Henry Moor...