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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., Medford and her Minute Men, April 19, 1775. (search)
ring on the part of the colonists of Massachusetts against the mother country resentment, resistance, defiance, and finally determination and action to protect and preserve their liberties by force of arms. The cause lay ten years back in the policy of the English Parliament to impose arbitrary taxes upon the colonists. In 1763 England had wrested from France supremacy in North America. In that seven years struggle the colonists had served the mother country. In recognition of that fact England had remitted to the treasury of Massachusetts substantial sums in part payment of expenses thus advanced. In 1765, however, the financial policy of a majority of the British statesmen sought to reimburse the royal coffers by a tax upon the colonies. Its first form was a stamp act, so bitterly opposed that it was repealed in less than six months. Next was passed a military act, which provided for the partial subsistence of armed soldiers on the colonists. Out of this grew the Boston mass