The town and city of Waterbury, Connecticut Volume 1 - Softcover

Prichard, Sarah Johnson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1236061160 ISBN 13: 9781236061164

Verlag: RareBooksClub.com, 2012

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...was repealed; the Massachusetts towns could not have been "boycotting" in 1770 in the most fundamental manner the merchants who imported British goods, neither buying themselves, nor suffering any one acting for them to buy, and saying: "Neither will we buy of those that shall buy or exchange any articles of Goods with them," and voting: "That to the End the Generations which are yet unborn may know who they were that laughed at the Distresses and Calamities of this people, and instead of striving to save their Country when in imminent Danger, did strive to render ineffectual a virtuous and commendable Plan," and ordering that "the names of the Importers should be annually read in Town meeting "--could these things have been, and this remote town felt no thrill of patriotism? Are we to suppose that the story of Griffin's wharf; the cargoes of the brig Beaver, the ships Eleanor and Dartmouth; the meeting in Faneuil Hall to determine ways and means of getting rid of the cargoes of the three obnoxious Indiamen; the adjournment to the South Church; Josiah Quincy's speech; Governor Hutchinson's refusal to send away the ships; the return of the committee about sundown to the church with the report of his refusal; the rush of the sixty-five men to the harbor, the dock, the ships, the tea--that all this rioting on the 16th day of December, 1773, in the face of an English fleet and English soldiers in the castle, had not been told and borne fruit that fell upon some luckless trader in forbidden luxuries in Waterbury before 1774? The Boston Port bill went into operation the first day of June, 1774. By its terms no person was permitted to land anything at Boston, or at Charlestown. In Boston harbor on Noddle's, Hog, Snake, Deer,...

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• Verlag: RareBooksClub.com
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1236061160
• ISBN 13: 9781236061164
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 376