Jan 20, 2002 · Franklin’s account in this letter of his interview with Lord Dartmouth indicates how little scope was left to either of them, two years before Lexington, to further reconciliation between Massachusetts and the mother country.

Jan 20, 2002 · “To Benjamin Franklin from the Massachusetts House of Representatives Committee of Correspondence, 21 December 1773,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-20-02-0270. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 20, January 1 through December 31, 1773, ed. William B. Willcox. New ...

Jan 20, 2002 · This letter poses a remarkable problem of dating, and we cannot solve it. Henly’s date is all too clear, and could not have been a slip: April 18 was a Sunday in 1773. Yet he makes a number of references that seem inapplicable to that year, and are definitely applicable to 1774.

Extract of a Letter from Governour Hutchinson to the Earl of Dartmouth, dated Boston, 4th November, 1773, received 17th December, enclosing, No˙ 2. Copy of a Letter to Thomas and Elisha Hutchinson , delivered at their house in Boston, 2d November, 1773.

In 1773, George III received a ‘Copy of the City Remonstrances’, in which the Aldermen and Livery of the City of London stated that:

In the House of Burgesses, in Virginia March, 1773. “WHEREAS the minds of his Majesty’s faithful subjects in this colony have been much disturbed by various rumours and reports of proceedings tending to deprive them of their ancient, legal and constitutional rights.

Largely carried on in pamphlets, the instant media of their day, this war of words fueled the escalation of tensions between Great Britain and her North American colonies in the period from 1773 to 1776.

Benjamin Franklin Papers: Series I, -1783; Craven Street letterbook, London, England, -1773 vol. 11. - 1773, 1772. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/mss21451012/>.

His papers as Surveyor General of New York State, 1773-1788, and other public papers, circa 1775-1796, consist of correspondence, receipts, drafts of legislation and proposals, building plans, and other papers.

Nov 15, 2007 · Tea leaves: being a collection of letters and documents relating to the shipment of tea to the American colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. Now first printed from the original manuscript. With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party by Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel), 1828-1885