Claim: Jonathan Boucher was a preacher, a Tory who firmly believed in protest against Government wrongs, and who strongly supported the 1765 Stamp Act and the vestry act in Maryland.
Evidence: He was also an ardent Tory, believing firmly that protest against Government wrongs should be carried out within the law– but definitely not an uncritical supporter of British policy; for example, he considered the 1765 Stamp Act to be "oppressive, impolitic and illegal", and the Royal proclamation against the Westward Expansion of the thirteen colonies "unjust and impolitic".