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Lyrical Ballads (Hardcover)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Thomas Hutchinson
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The second volume of Thomas Hutchinson's correspondence covers the
years 1767 through 1769. In 1767, Charles Townshend's new taxes, in
addition to his ambitious plans to improve customs enforcement and
render crown officials in the colonies more independent of local
assemblies, caused increasing resentment in Boston. To force
Parliament to repeal the new legislation, Boston merchants adopted
a comprehensive nonimportation agreement, which Hutchinson, in his
position as lieutenant governor, regarded as an illegal confederacy
devoid of any constitutional authority. Nevertheless, he and other
royal officials proved powerless to stop its spread. To make
matters worse, in October 1768, British troops arrived in Boston,
at the instigation of Hutchinson's superior, Governor Francis
Bernard. Hutchinson correctly foresaw that soldiers could be only
an irritant and would be ineffective at preventing civil disorder.
In August 1769, Bernard sailed for England, leaving Hutchinson as
acting governor, with the unenviable challenge of dealing with
mounting anger against the occupying troops and growing street
violence designed to coerce unwilling importers into compliance
with the merchants' agreement. Hutchinson's papers have always been
among the most basic sources for historians writing about Boston in
the 1760s and 1770s, and the publication of this volume is a
valuable step toward making this content widely accessible.
Title: A Collection Of Original Papers Relative To The History Of
The Colony Of Massachusets-Bay.Author: Thomas HutchinsonPublisher:
Gale, Making of Modern Law Description: The Making of Modern Law:
Primary Sources, 1620-1926 contains a virtual goldmine of
information for researchers of American legal history --- an
archive of the published records of the American colonies,
documents published by state constitutional conventions, state
codes, city charters, law dictionaries, digests and more.++++The
below data was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
++++SourceLibrary: Massachusetts State Historical
SocietyDocumentID: LPSC0000200SecondaryDocType: American Colonial
RecordsSourceBibCitation: Published Records of the American
ColoniesPublicationPlace: United StatesImprintFull: Boston: Thomas
And John Fleet, 1769ImprintYear: 1769Collation:
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