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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing)	2	2	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition.	2	2	Browse	Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks)	1	1	Browse	Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order	1	1	Browse	Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Liberty tree. (search)

tree was planted in 1614, and pruned by order of the Sons of Liberty, Feb. 14, 1776. On Nov. 20, 1767, a seditious handbill was fixed to the tree, exhorting the Sons of Liberty to rise and fight against the country's oppressors; it declared that they would be joined by legions of their countrymen, that the tyrant would be driven from the land, and generations to come would bless them, while if they neglected this opportunity to free their country they would be cursed to all eternity. In June, 1768, a red flag was raised over the tree, and a second appeal to the Sons of Liberty to rise against the British was affixed in the form of a handbill to its trunk. The anniversary of the rising against the Stamp Act was observed Aug. 14, 1773, by a meeting under this tree. On Nov. 3 following there was an immense gathering under this tree again, at which a resolution was passed concerning the teaships which were known to be on their way to Boston, ordering the consignees of the cargoes no

Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), North Carolina, (search)

..1767 People of Orange county, oppressed by the unjust acts of Edmund Fanning, clerk of the court of Orange, form an association, headed by Herman Husbands and William Hunter, for regulating public grievances and abuse of power......1768 James Hunter and Rednap Howell sent by the regulators to the governor with a statement of grievances......May 21, 1768 Governor and council decide that the grievances of the regulators do not warrant their course, which tends to high treason......June, 1768 Regulators assembling, July 11, the governor raises troops and marches from Salisbury to Hillsboro, swearing the people to allegiance to the King and requiring the regulators to disperse. At the September term of the Hillsboro Superior Court Husbands is indicted for a riot, but acquitted. Hunter and others are imprisoned. Fanning, indicted, pleads guilty, and is fined sixpence......September, 1768 Regulators present a petition for redress to the governor, May 15, which is rejected

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