Claim: JOnathan Boucher was a preacher, and a Tory who firmly believe in protest in Government wrongs; however he fully supported the Government's 1765 Stamp Act which imposed taxes on British colonies in American.
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".