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Holt (search for this): chapter 4
rs as necessary for the enforcement of the Navigation Acts, and even for the existence of Government. When the soldiers stationed in New-York had, in the night Holt's Gazette, 1232; 14 Aug. 1766, and 1233, 21 Aug. 1766. Dunlap's History of New-York, i. 433; Isaac Q. Leake's Life of John Lamb, 36. of the tenth of August, cut d soldiery continued to irritate the people by insolent language, and by once more cutting down their flagstaff; Dunlap's New-York, i. 433; Leake's Lamb, 32, 33; Holt's Gazette, 14 Aug. and 21 Aug. 1766, and 25 Sept. 1766. so that the Billeting Act could find no favor. Shelburne Shelburne to Sir Henry Moore, 9 Aug. 1766. souby imposing heavier burdens than the people could support. Address of the Assembly of New-York to the Governor, delivered 18 Dec. 1766, in Prior Documents, 120; Holt's N. Y. Gazette, 1251, 24 Dec. 1766. This prudent reserve secured unanimity in the Assembly and among their constituents. Gov. Moore to Board of Trade, 19 Dec.
Charles Townshend (search for this): chapter 4
known to possess as much of the friendship of Charles Townshend as a selfish client may obtain from an intrigulated on the accession to power of his patron, Charles Townshend. In Parliament a spirit was rising very diffeof Lord Edgecombe from an unimportant post. Charles Townshend to Grafton, 2 Nov. 1766, in Grafton's Autobioga Company, he proposed to Grafton the dismissal of Townshend as incurable. Chatham to Grafton, 7 Dec. 1766, ndly acknowledgment of their vote of gratitude. Townshend saw his opportunity, and no longer Jan. concealeChatham, 27 Jan. 1767. Administration, replied Townshend, has applied its attention to give relief to greaPitkin the passage, which might seem to prove that Townshend acted on a sudden impulse. The supposition would be erroneous. Townshend's policy was adopted deliberately. and, after this, I do not expect to have my statue pressed for a revenue that should be adequate; and Townshend engaged himself to the House to find a revenue, if
Thomas Moffat (search for this): chapter 4
ued with them to oppose all foreign taxation. Every Colony denied the right of Parliament to control its Legislature. Moffat, of Rhode Island, asked relief for his losses; founding his claim on the resolves of the British House of Commons, and the King's recommendation. Thomas Moffat to a Member of Parliament, Mr. Burke's cousin. 12 Dec. 1766; Moffat's Account sent to the same M. P., and to Sir George Saville and others. Neither of them, said the Speaker of the Assembly, can ever operatMoffat's Account sent to the same M. P., and to Sir George Saville and others. Neither of them, said the Speaker of the Assembly, can ever operate with me; nor ought they to influence the free and independent Representatives of Rhode Island Colony. Moffat had leave to withdraw his first petition and substitute an inoffensive one, which was received, but referred to a future session. At NeMoffat had leave to withdraw his first petition and substitute an inoffensive one, which was received, but referred to a future session. At New-York the soldiery continued to irritate the people by insolent language, and by once more cutting down their flagstaff; Dunlap's New-York, i. 433; Leake's Lamb, 32, 33; Holt's Gazette, 14 Aug. and 21 Aug. 1766, and 25 Sept. 1766. so that the Bil
Due De Choiseul (search for this): chapter 4
re at the captious restraints on navigation, Shelburne sought to recover the affections of the Colonies by acquiring and deserving their confidence. Durand to Choiseul, 14 Aug. 1766. Assure the Assembly of Massachusetts, he said with frankness This description of Shelburne is by the Agent of the Massachusetts Assembly in Lontry that he appeared in the House of Lords. His broken health was unequal to the conflict which he had invited. On the eighteenth of December, De Guerchy to Choiseul, 19 Dec. 1766. he repaired to Bath with a nervous system so weak that he was easily fluttered, and moved to tears; yet still in his infirmities he sent to the Redered the estimates for the land forces and garrisons in the Plantations. Grenville seized the opportunity to declaim on the repeal De Guerchy to the Duke of Choiseul, 27 Jan. 1767. of the Stamp Act. He enforced the necessity of relieving Great Britain from a burden which the Colonies ought to bear, and which with contingenci
Historical Collections (search for this): chapter 4
of their property, and refused to pay quit-rents till their legal right should be acknowledged. The line of straggling settlements beyond the mountains, extended from Pittsburg up the Monongahela For the Official Papers of 1766, respecting the settlements on the Monongahela, especially at Redstone, see the Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania, vol. IX. Compare also, J. L. Bowman in the American Pioneer, for February, 1843; Craig's History of Pittsburg, 98, 99; Day's Historical Collections of Pennsylvania, 336. and its tributaries to the banks of the Greenbriar and the New River, Compare Monette's History of the Discovery and Settlement of the Valley of the Mississippi, i. 345. and to the well-known upper valley of the Holston, That lands in the Holston Valley were sought for as early as 1756, see the proof in Ramsay's Annals of Tennessee, 66. where the military path from Virginia led to the country of the Cherokees. But as yet there was no settlement in Kentuck
Durand (search for this): chapter 4
interposed a member, when the House would have readily assisted the Governor in executing the Laws of Trade. The times, replied Otis, are altered; we now know our rights. Bernard to Shelburne, 21 Dec. 1766. While the mercenary motives which prompted the Governor's sudden eagerness to suppress illicit trade, incensed the people still more at the captious restraints on navigation, Shelburne sought to recover the affections of the Colonies by acquiring and deserving their confidence. Durand to Choiseul, 14 Aug. 1766. Assure the Assembly of Massachusetts, he said with frankness This description of Shelburne is by the Agent of the Massachusetts Assembly in London. See his Letter to the Speaker, 19 Sept. 1766. American Newspapers of 1766, Boston, 10 Nov.; New Hampshire, Gazette, 14 Nov. 1766. Bradford omits the sentence: Bradford Papers, 102. to their correspondent, they may be perfectly easy about Chap. XXVII.} 1766. Nov. the enjoyment of their rights and privileges under
Saunders (search for this): chapter 4
had declared to all the world, that his great point was to destroy faction, was incurring the hatred of every branch of the aristocracy. Lord Barrington to Sir Andrew Mitchell, 14 Dec. 1766. Eight or nine Chesterfield to Stanhope, 9 Dec. 1766. Whigs resigned their employments, on account of his headstrong removal of Lord Edgecombe from an unimportant post. Charles Townshend to Grafton, 2 Nov. 1766, in Grafton's Autobiography; Conway to Chatham, 22 Nov. 1766, Chat. Corr. III. 126. Saunders and Keppel left the Admiralty, and Keppel's place fell to Jenkinson. The Bedford party knew the weakness of the English Ximenes, and scorned to accept his moderate bid for recruits. But the King continually cheered him on to rout out the Grandees of England, now banded together. King to Chatham, 2 Dec. 1766. Their unions, said Chatham in return, give me no terrors. I know my ground, he wrote to Grafton; Chatham to Grafton, 3 Dec. 1766, in Grafton's Autobiography. and I leave them t
Nicholas Ray (search for this): chapter 4
433; Isaac Q. Leake's Life of John Lamb, 36. of the tenth of August, cut down the flagstaff of the citizens, the General reported the ensuing quarrel as a proof of anarchy and confusion, and the requisiteness of troops for the support of the laws. General Gage to Secretary Richmond, 26 Aug. 1766. Yet the New-York Association of the Sons of Liberty had been dissolved; and all efforts to keep up its glorious spirit, were subor dinated to loyalty. Isaac Sears, John Lamb, and others to Nicholas Ray, New-York, 10 Oct. 1766. A few individuals Andrew Oliver to Thomas Whately, 7 May, 1767, in Letters, &c., 19. at Boston, Chap. XXVII.} 1766. Oct. having celebrated the anniversary of the outbreak against the Stamp Act, care was taken to report, how healths had been drunk to Otis, the American Hampden, who first proposed the Congress; Tenth Toast at Liberty Tree, 14 Aug. 1766. to the Virginians, who sounded the alarm to the country; to Paoli and the struggling Corsicans; to the spar
Collins (search for this): chapter 4
by but the name of Stone, one of his companions, which he gave to a branch above Nashville. Remarkable Occurrences in the Life and Travels of Colonel James Smith, by himself. Reprinted in 1849, at Abingdon, Va., in Mirror of Olden Time Border Life. This narrative is adopted by John Haywood in his Civil and Political History of the State of Tennessee, from its earliest Settlement up to the year 1796, 35, 36. Ramsay in his Annals of Tennessee, 69, adopts Smith's narrative from Haywood. Collins in the chronological table to his Historical Sketches of Kentucky, accepts it also. Most of the party proceeded to the country of the Illinois. In North Carolina, the people along the upland frontier, many of whom had sprung from Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Compare Foote's Sketches of North Carolina, chap. XI. suffered from the illegal exactions of Chap. XXVII.} 1766. Oct. Sheriffs and officials, whose pillaging was supported by the whole force of Government. The Sons of Liberty,
W. S. Johnson (search for this): chapter 4
nternal and external taxes. I know no such distinction. It is a distinction without a difference; it is perfect nonsense; if we have a right to impose the one, we have a right to impose the other; the distinction is ridiculous in the opinion of every body, except the Americans. Looking up where the Colony Agents usually sat, he added with emotion, I speak this aloud, that all you who are in the galleries may hear me; W. S. Johnson to Gov. Pitkin, 12 Feb. 1767. I follow the Account of Johnson from his Mss., of which I took and preserve copies. The story in Pitkin's Political and Civil History of the United States, i. 217, seems to me to have been fashioned by verbal tradition. I was told the same story, but not as to be found in the Mss. One English historian has quoted from Pitkin the passage, which might seem to prove that Townshend acted on a sudden impulse. The supposition would be erroneous. Townshend's policy was adopted deliberately. and, after this, I do not expect t
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