Some account of the proceedings of the people in New England from the establishment of a Board of Customs in America to the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1775 divided into seventeen chapters, with an inxex ending with the account of the sufferings of the commisioners of customs, 1767-1776 [microf

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Hulton, Henry, 1733?-1790. Some account of the proceedings of the people in New England from the establishment of a Board of Customs in America to the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1775 divided into seventeen chapters, with an inxex ending with the account of the sufferings of the commisioners of customs, 1767-1776 [microform].

Some account of the proceedings of the people in New England from the establishment of a Board of Customs in America to the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1775 divided into seventeen chapters, with an inxex ending with the account of the sufferings of the commisioners of customs, 1767-1776 [microform].

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Concerns the obstruction to the revenue laws at the time of the establishment of the the Board of Customs in America; former measures adopted for security of revenue; modes of resistance to the operation of the revenue laws in 1767 and 1768; exertions of Government in support of its authority in 1768; interal difficulties of the Board; Heads of faction at Boston on the establishment of the Board of Customs; Governor Bernard and Gov. Hutchinson; opposition to the revenue laws at Boston 1769 and 1770; Mr. Temple and Dr. Franklin; opposition by the town of Boston and the province of Massachusetts Bay in 1772 to 1774 to the revenue laws; proceedings of the departure of Gov. Hutchinson, 1774; proceedings of the people in the province of Massachusetts Bay after the arrival of Gen. Gage as Governor, to the close of 1774; proceedings of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts Bay and the Continental Congress at Philadelphia, 1774; Instances of persecution in New England, 1774; proceedings of the province of Massachusetts Bay, 1775; and a summary of the persecution and distresses undergone by the commissioners of the Customs in America.

1 v. (398 p.) ; 24 cm.

University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Harriet Irving Library