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 : manuscript, [between 1770 and 1780].

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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 : manuscript, [between 1770 and 1780].

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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.

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