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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 1 1 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
nmeeting on hearing of this act; instructions to their representatives in the General Court are prepared by Samuel Adams......May, 1764 Governor Bernard replies to the lords of trade......September, 1764 Duties laid by Parliament on foreign molasses imported into British colonies; called the sugar or molasses act......1764 Stamp Act passed by Parliament......March, 1765 Andrew Oliver, secretary of Massachusetts, accepts the office of distributer of stamps for the province......August, 1765 Oliver hanged in effigy on a tree (Liberty Tree), and in the evening his house is damaged by the mob......Aug. 14, 1765 Lieutenant-Governor Hutchinson's house mobbed and everything in it destroyed, among other things many manuscripts relating to the history of the province, which he had been thirty years in collecting, and which could not be replaced, are lost......Aug. 26. 1765 Vessel arrives at Boston with the stamps......Sept. 25, 1765 [These stamps were deposited at Castle
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 8: American political writing, 1760-1789 (search)
in a letter to a noble Lord, the argument of which, save in its plea for leniency and consideration on the part of Great Britain in view of the extent and importance of the colonies, does not differ materially from that which the author had previously advanced. John Adams, with the exception of Jefferson . . . the most readable of the statesmen of the Revolutionary period, now entered the lists with a series of four essays, published anonymously and without title in the Boston Gazette in August, 1765. Beginning with an examination of the ecclesiatical and civil tyranny which he found exemplified in the canon and feudal law, and of which the Stamp Act was held up as the consummate illustration, Adams traced the course of the historical struggle between corporate oppression and individual liberty and self-assertion. Admitting we are children, have not children a right to complain when their parents are attempting to break their limbs, to administer poison, or to sell them to enemies f
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 13: (search)
and the two others, on which no vote had been taken, were published in the newspapers throughout America, and by men of all parties, by royalists in chap. XIII.} 1765. May. office, not less than by public bodies in the colonies, were received without dispute as the avowed sentiment of the Old Dominion. This is the way the fire began in Virginia. John Hughes's Letter, in Boston Gazette of 22 Sept. 1766. Of the American colonies, Virginia rang the alarm bell. Bernard to Halifax, Aug. 1765. Virginia gave the signal for the continent. Gage to Conway, 23 Sept. 1765. At the opening of the legislature of Massachusetts, Oliver, who had been appointed stamp-distributor, was, on the joint ballot of both branches, re-elected councillor, by a majority of but three out of about one hundred and twenty votes. Bernard to Lords of Trade. Representation of Lords of Trade, 1 Oct. 1765. More than half the representatives voted against him. On the very day on which the resolves
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 7., Meeting-house brook and the second Meeting-house. (search)
in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-Six Oliver Prescott. Copy examined Attest James Winthrop Regr Strangers in Medford, (continued from Vol. 4, no. 3). Names.From. Date.Warned out.Remarks. Jones, RebeccaDec. 24, 1755In family of Benj. Hall. Jones, Capt. WilliamHolliston, Apr. 24, 1762Jan. 1, 1763Tavern keeper, Tenant of Col. Royall.   Sarah (wife)   Katharine Children   Abigail   Sarah   Frances   Ezra   William   Jesse Kemp, AmasaGroton, August 1765Feb. 24, 1766 Kendall, JesseWoburn, Apr. 11, 1754Son of Samuel Kendall.   wife and two child'n Kendall, JosephJan. 30, 1791Laborer. Killerin, AnnaBoston, Aug. 18, 1761May 14, 1762Age 4 yrs. Anna or Ann. Boarder in family of Jacob Hall. Knowland, Patrick1735 Lampson, Lapson. DavidCambridge, Apr. 1, 1765Feb. 24, 1766In family of Samuel Tufts jr. Lampson, MarthaIpswich, Nov. 19, 1761Single woman in family of William Bradshaw. Lawrence, AnnaLexington, May 15, 1764Mar. 1,