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Protesting the Stamp Act... Effigies hanged...
Protesting the Stamp Act... Effigies hanged...
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November 01, 1765
THE EDINBURGH ADVERTISER, November 1, 1765
* Stamp Act protested
* Effigies hanged
An inside page has an excellent & detailed account of the protest against the Rhode Island tax distributor & two others, the text including: "...On Tuesday, about nine o'clock in the morning, the populace brought forth the effigies of three persons in a cart, each of them with a rope about their necks, and carried them to a gallows... on which they were exhibited to public view the whole day,... These effigies having hung till night, they were then cut down, and burnt under the gallows, amidst the acclamations of the people, which being done, they returned very orderly to their respective...The next evening they mustered & beset the house of Martin Howard, Jr. & broke & destroyed the goods, furniture & every thing therein...They then proceeded to the house of Dr. Thomas Moffat where they behaved in the same manner; from whence they intended for the house of Augustus Johnson, Esq., who had been appointed Distributor of the Stamps..." with more (see photos). See Wikipedia for further information on this action by the Sons of Liberty.
An excellent account of this noteworthy protest to the Stamp Act.
Complete in eight pages, untrimmed with a full red tax stamp on the back page.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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