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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
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ion, June 29, 1767, asserting its right to bind the Colonies in all cases whatsoever. Duties were laid on paper, tea, glass, and painters' colors. A custom-house was opened, and a civil list established; and the act provides, that, after ministerial warrants are satisfied, the residue of the revenue shall be at the disposal of Parliament. The trump of doom could not have caused a more general awakening. New England now was doubly alive. The preparation-note was sounded in Medford, Dec. 21, 1772, in these words:-- Voted to choose a Committee to take under consideration the grievances we labor under, and in particular of salaries said to be appointed by the Crown for our supreme judges; and also to draw up instructions for our representative relative thereto. This signal-gun, fired from the battlements of liberty, gave not an uncertain sound, as will be seen in the following acts of our patriotic fathers. Dec. 31, 1772:-- Voted that the thanks of the town of Medford be