Letterbooks, 1768-1780 (inclusive).

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Letterbooks, 1768-1780 (inclusive).

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Copies of letters and memorials written from Boston and other places. Hulton was in the Boston customs-house, and he describes at first hand the Boston Massacre, the Tea Party, Concord and Lexington, Bunker Hill, and the evacuation of Boston and exodus to Canada. One section is titled, "Journal of a Seige of Quebec." The second volume contains letters written from England after his retirement from public life.

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Hulton, Henry, 1733?-1790

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Hulton was a British official sent to America in 1767 as head of the commissioners to enforce the Stamp Act. From the description of 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]. (University of New Brunswick, Fredericton). World...