Collection of 3 A.LL.S. from Thomas Booth Gloucester County Virginia November 1765-August 1771 : to the Reverend Richard Collinson Bristol England
1765
MSS L2012F124.1-3
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Title
Collection of 3 A.LL.S. from Thomas Booth Gloucester County Virginia November 1765-August 1771 : to the Reverend Richard Collinson Bristol England
Published
Gloucester, Va. 1765-1771
Description
[3] items ; 21-24 cm.
Call Number
MSS L2012F124.1-3
Note
Gloucester County resident sends news to England of the colonies' reaction to the Stamp Act.
In his letter dated November 28, 1765, Booth writes: "You have no doubt heard that, in consequence of an Act passed a few months ago by the British Parliament, all the English Colonies in America were from the first Day of this Month, to be subject to the payment of certain Stamp duties on all Writing related to Law proceedings, and many others in the mercantile way, which I understand, has caused such a Disturbance throughout the whole Continent, that all the Distributors of the stampt Paper have been obliged to resign their offices, the Courts of Justice all shut up; and in short almost all Business at a Stand…. [M]ay the infinitely wise Disposer of Events so order it that the legislative Power of our Mother Country may think proper to repeal the Act; for should it take Place, as we are still burthened with the heavy Tax occasioned by the late War, which it will with the utmost Difficulty the People can pay, I can see no prospect but that of inevitable Ruin to this Colony"; four years later, on September 1, 1769, Booth writes again to Collinson: "I am sorry to acquaint you that, by all Accounts, the Inhabitants, in general of all the North American Colonies, seem still to be much dissatisfied about the Revenue Acts ..."
In his letter dated November 28, 1765, Booth writes: "You have no doubt heard that, in consequence of an Act passed a few months ago by the British Parliament, all the English Colonies in America were from the first Day of this Month, to be subject to the payment of certain Stamp duties on all Writing related to Law proceedings, and many others in the mercantile way, which I understand, has caused such a Disturbance throughout the whole Continent, that all the Distributors of the stampt Paper have been obliged to resign their offices, the Courts of Justice all shut up; and in short almost all Business at a Stand…. [M]ay the infinitely wise Disposer of Events so order it that the legislative Power of our Mother Country may think proper to repeal the Act; for should it take Place, as we are still burthened with the heavy Tax occasioned by the late War, which it will with the utmost Difficulty the People can pay, I can see no prospect but that of inevitable Ruin to this Colony"; four years later, on September 1, 1769, Booth writes again to Collinson: "I am sorry to acquaint you that, by all Accounts, the Inhabitants, in general of all the North American Colonies, seem still to be much dissatisfied about the Revenue Acts ..."
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