Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1921-06-30
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part of debt incurred during French and Indian
war. Colonial assemblies refuse. Parliament
serts right to tax colonies. Issue of taxation
without representation" raised .
l'65-Parliament passes "Quartering Act" re-
curing colonies to supply quarters for British
army of defense. STAMP Act" putting tax on
newspapers and legal documents. Stamp Act
congress issues declaration of rights"
1766-Repeal of STAMP Act" "Decaratory
Act" maintains right to tax.
1767-Townsend British chancellor of exchequer
brings in bill for taxes on tea glass; wine, OIL
paper lead, etc
-Non-mportation agreement adopted by
Boston and spreads to other colonies Massa-
chusetts Legislature dissolved by George III. Brit
ish soldiers quartered in Boston.
l769-Lord North repeats all taxes except on
tea, retained for sake of principle
1773-"Committees of Correspondence" formed
to enable colonies to keep in touch Boston
Tea Party"
1774-"Boston Port Bill" closing Boston to
shipping and removing seat of government to
Salem. General Gage, commander Of British SOL
diers in Boston, made governor of Massachusetts.
Regulating Act" remOdeling charter of Massa-
chusetts "Quartering Act" Quebec Act" First
Continental Congress at Philadelphia Massa-
chusetts Provincial Congress meets and calls for
1900 Minute Men"
1775-Parament declares Massachusetts to be
III SIdLe VI IeDelllOn AIuleu Clash at Lexington
and Concord begins hostilities. Capture of Ticon-
deroga and Crown Point. Battle of Bunker HILL
Siege of Boston Canadian expedition under
Montgomery. Second Continental Congress at
Philadelphia votes to raise army of 10000 and
chooses George Washington commander-in.chief
1776-Evacuation of Boston by British accom-
panied by 1900 loyalists. Repulse of British fleet
and army at Charleston S. c. Battle of Long
Island and occupation of New York by British
Raft Of Trenton Continental
vides for the establishment of state governments
and state conventions adopt constitutions Con-
gress adopts Declaration of Independence.
The most casual glance at this skeleton cbro
nology shows it to be literally loaded to the muz
zle with the eighteenth century equivalent of mo-
litcal and economic INT. The American Ravo
luton was inevitable or later The mar
vel is not that it came but that out of the condi
tons grew a nation.
What chaos it was The title TO the coIorts
was not in the people of England or I'm the stoto
but in the crown. The crown could make and NO
peal laws; could appoint rulers and remove tbor,
The cOlOnists were not citizens of the realm hut
subjects of the crown, having only such rights as
granted them in their charters The crou,n
claimed and exercised the right to amend or ro,o,a
these charters. Such rights and no more did the
American colonists have, according to the vieu, 90
the party in England which stood for legal o,d
constitutional prerogatives of the crown These
claims Of the crown were resisted by every co
ony as incompatible with its essential rights and
by the anti-prerogatve party in England,
OF the thirteen colonies seven were roval COL
onies, three charter and three proprietary COL
onies. Each colony related to the others only
through the crown. All the conditions tended
rather to intercolonial hate than love. Find the
causes that drove the colonies together and there
are the causes of the Revolution.
George III was sticker for the kings pre-
negatives. One Of his first acts in relation to the
colonies was to revive the navigation and trade
laws which had been only nominally enforced for
a century. AS q matter Of fact all the colonies
were technically smugglers in that their evasion
of these laws gave them practically free trade