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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
hout any hesitancy or discussion, they adopted a minute directing Jenkinson, the First Secretary of the Treasury, to write to the Commissioneor extending the stamp duties to the colonies. The very next day, Jenkinson accordingly wrote to the commissioners, desiring them to transmit Who was the author of the American stamp tax? At a later day, Jenkinson assured the House of Commons that, if the stamp act was a good meal silence. He never was heard even to allude to it. But, though Jenkinson proposed the American tax, while private secretary to Bute, and bnt of Massachusetts, through his brother, Israel Mauduit, who had Jenkinson for his fast friend and often saw Grenville, favored raising the , and refused to take any part in preparing or supporting it. But Jenkinson, his Secretary of the Treasury, was ready to render every assist: Grenville adopted, from Lord Bute, a plan of taxation formed by Jenkinson. the measure which was devolved upon him, and his memory must con
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 11: (search)
he discontent of the Indians. With the same object, Croghan and a party descended the Ohio from Pittsburg. The governor of North Carolina believed that, by pushing trade up the Missouri, a way to the great Western ocean would be discovered, and an open trade to it be established. Dobbs to Halifax, 26 Feb. 1765. So wide was the territory—so vast the interests for which the British Parliament was legislating! On the day after the debate on American affairs, Grenville, Lord North, and Jenkinson, with others, were ordered to bring in a Stamp-bill for America, which on the thirteenth was introduced by Grenville himself, and read the first time without a syllable of debate. Journals of the House of Commons. Letter to New-York of 16 Feb. 1765, in Boston Gazette of 3 June, 1765. Among the papers that were to be stamped, it contained an enumeration of the several instruments of ecclesiastical law used in the courts of episcopal jurisdiction; for Grenville reasoned, that one day suc