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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bollan, William, 1740-1776 (search)
Bollan, William, 1740-1776 Lawyer; born in England; came to America about 1740, and settled in Boston. He married a daughter of Governor Shirley, of Massachusetts, and was appointed collector of customs at Salem and Marblehead. In 1745 he was sent to England to solicit the reimbursement of more than $800,000 advanced by Massachusetts for the expedition against Cape Breton. He was successful ; and became agent for Massachusetts in 1762, but was dismissed. Being in England in 1769, he ob and General Gage, calumniating the colonists, and sent then to Boston. For this act he was denounced in Parliament. He strongly recommended the British government to pursue conciliatory measures towards the colonists in 1775: and in various ways, in person and in writing, he showed his warm friendship for the Americans. Mr. Bollan wrote several political pamphlets relating to American affairs: and in 1774 he presented. as colonial agent, a petition to the King in council. He died in 1776.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Parliament, English (search)
m (William Pitt), after long absence, appeared and proposed an address to the King advising a recall of the troops from Boston. This proposition was rejected by a decisive majority. Petitions for conciliation, which flowed into the House of Commons from all the trading and manufacturing towns in the kingdom, were referred to another committee, which the opposition called the committee of oblivion. Among the petitions to the King was that of the Continental Congress, presented by Franklin, Bollan, and Lee, three colonial agents, who asked to be heard upon it, by counsel, at the bar of the House. Their request was refused on the ground that the Congress was an illegal assembly and the alleged grievances only pretended. On Feb. 1, Chatham brought forward a bill for settling the troubles in America, which provided for a full acknowledgment on the part of the colonies of the supremacy and superintending power of Parliament, but that no tax should ever be levied except by consent of t
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 2: (search)
and Rhode Island pleaded their patents, and reminded parliament of the tribute alrleady levied on them by the monopoly of their commerce. For Massachusetts, William Bollan, through chap. II.} 1749. the very good-natured Lord Baltimore, represented, that the bill virtually included all future orders of all future princes, howeve to tax America, but not to delegate that power; and, by his order, the objections to the proposed measure were spread at length on the journal. Ms. Memoirs of Bollan's Services. The Board of Trade wavered, and in April consented, reluctantly, to drop for the present, and reserve, the despotic clauses; Bollan, the MassachuseBollan, the Massachusetts agent, to Secretary Willard, April, 1749. but it continued to cherish the spirit that dictated them, till it had driven the colonies to independence, and had itself ceased to exist. At the same time Massachusetts was removing every motive to interfere with its currency by abolishing its paper money. That province had deman
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 3: (search)
The restriction, said Penn, is of most dangerous consequence to prevent our making what we want for our own use. . . . . .It is an attack on the rights of the king's subjects in America. Douglas: Historical and Political Summary, II., 109. William Bollan, the agent of Massachusetts, pleaded its inconsistency with the natural rights of the colonists. W. Bollan to the Speaker of the Massachusetts Assembly, 5 April, 1750. But while England applauded the restriction, its owners of iron mines W. Bollan to the Speaker of the Massachusetts Assembly, 5 April, 1750. But while England applauded the restriction, its owners of iron mines grudged to America a share of the market for chap. III.} 1750. the rough material; the tanners, from the threatened inaction of the English furnaces, feared a diminished supply of bark; the clergy and gentry foreboded injury to the price of woodlands. Journals of Commons, XXV., 1053, 1091, 1096. The importation of bar iron from the colonies was therefore limited to the port of London, which already had its supply from abroad. The ironmongers and smiths of Birmingham thought well of importi
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 4: (search)
I. 65, 119, 120, 187, 206, 265. In the dan- chap. IV.} 1751. gerous precedent, Bollan, the agent for Massachusetts, discerned the latent purpose of introducing by de instructions; and the scheme was conducted with great perseverance and art. Bollan, agent for the Massachusetts Bay to the Speaker of its Assembly, 7 March, 12 Apas resolved to obtain an American revenue by acts of parliament. Mss. of William Bollan. The excessive discriminating duties in favor of the British West Indies, gating trade, so as to uproot illicit traffic and obtain an American revenue. Bollan's Sketch of his Services. To this end, they fostered the jealous dispute betweeenues out of the colonies. Thomas Penn to James Hamilton, 9 January, 1753. Wm. Bollan to Secretary Willard, 10 July, 1752, and 24 May, 1753. Some proposed to obtaiconcurrence, the Board of Trade Walpole's Memoirs of George II. Letter of Wm. Bollan, of Charles, the New York Agent of the Proprietary of Pennsylvania. on the e
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 5: (search)
om paying their compliments to Mr. Franklin. and he, who had first entered their city as a runaway apprentice, was revered as the mover of American union. Yet the system was not altogether acceptable either to Great Britain or to America. The fervid attachment of each colony to its own individual liberties repelled the overruling influence of a central power. Connecticut rejected it; even New York showed it little favor; Massachusetts charged her agent to oppose it. Massachusetts to Bollan, December, 1754. The Board of Trade, on receiving the chap. V.} 1754. minutes of the congress, were astonished at a plan of general government complete in itself. Representation of the Board of 31 Trade, 29 October, 1754, in Plantations Gen. B. 7. XLII.; and at Albany London Documents, XXXI. 64. Reflecting men in England dreaded American union as the keystone of independence. But in the mind of Franklin the love for union assumed still more majestic proportions, and comprehended the g
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 7: (search)
on the Board of Trade, and defended all their acts, in particular the instructions to Sir Danvers Osborne. The petition of the agent of Massachusetts was not allowed to be brought up. That to the House of Lords no one would offer; Letter of W. Bollan to Secretary Willard, 21 Dec., 1754; and to the Speaker of the Massachusetts Assembly, 29 Jan., 1755. and the bill, with the clause for America, was hurried through parliament. It is confidently stated, by the agent of Massachusetts, that a noble lord had then a bill in his pocket, ready to be brought in, to ascertain and regulate the colonial quotas. W. Bollan to the Speaker, 30 May, 1755. All England was persuaded of the perverseness of the assemblies, Secretary Calvert to Lt. Gov. Sharpe, 20 Dec., 1754. and inquiries were instituted relating to the easiest method of taxation by parliament. But, for the moment, the prerogative was employed; Braddock was ordered to exact a common revenue; and all the governors received th
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
ld conquer Canada, or subvert the liberties of America. A majority of the Treasury Board, as well as the Board of Trade, favored American taxation by act of parliament; none scrupled as to the power; but the unfit Lyttelton, then chancellor of the exchequer, chap. IX.} 1756. though fixed in his opinions, could not mature schemes of finance; and the British statutes, 29 Geo. II., c. XXVI.; 31 Geo. II., c. XXXVI., ยง 8; 1 Geo. III., c. IV. which manifest the settled purpose Letter of Bollan to Massachusetts, in May, 1756. of raising a revenue out of the traffic between the American continent and the West India Islands, show that the execution of that purpose was at that session, and twice afterwards, deferred to a quieter period. Still parliament, in the session of 1756, extended its authority signally over America. There foreign Protestants might be employed as engineers and officers to enlist a regiment of aliens. 29 Geo. II., c. v. Indented servants might be accepted,
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
s; but the pusillanimous man entreated his correspondent to conceal his confession from those whom it would displease. Yet to his friends in America, he used to say, that there was no ground for the distinction between the duties on trade and internal taxes; that if the Parliament intended to go on, there would be a necessity to dispute the distinction; for, said he, they may find duties on trade enough to drain us thoroughly. Hutchinson to Ebenezer Silliman, 1764. Compare Hutchinson to Bollan, 7 Nov. 1764. And it is affirmed, that to members of the legislature of Massachusetts, from whom he had ends to gain, Hutchinson denied utterly the right of parliament to tax America. Novanglus, printed in 1774-5. The appeals of the Colonies were made in the spirit of loyalty. The wilderness was still ringing with the war-whoop of the savage; M. de St. Ange to M. d'abadie, 15 July, 1764. and the frontiers were red with blood; while the colonies themselves, at the solicitations of
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 11: (search)
Letter from London, of Oct. 1765, quoted in R. H. Lee's of 2 Feb. 1766. The nation was provoked by American claims of independence (of parliament), and all parties joined in resolving by this act to settle the point. Franklin to Charles Thompson, Ms. On the twenty-seventh of February, the Stamp Act passed the House of Commons. Rockingham had freely expressed his opinion at Sir George Saville's as to the manner in which the colonies could best resist it. Letter from London, by William Bollan. In public he was silent. Lord Temple Phillimore's Lyttelton, II. 690. had much private conversation with Lord Lyttelton on the subject; and both approved the principle of the measure, and the right asserted in it. Had there existed any doubt concerning that right, they were of opinion it should then be debated, before the honor of the legislature was engaged to its support. But on the eighth of March the bill was agreed to by the Lords without having encountered an amendment, debate,