The Boston Merchants And the Non-Importation Movement
The book The Boston Merchants And the Non-Importation Movement was written by author Andrews, Charles Mclean, 1863-1943 Here you can read free online of The Boston Merchants And the Non-Importation Movement book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Boston Merchants And the Non-Importation Movement a good or bad book?
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* Albany acted very much under the influence of New York, but the merchants 1917] BOSTON MERCHANTS AND NON-IMPOHTATION MOVEMENT 213 Salem, Marblehead, and Gloucester had already adopted the Boston terms, and New Haven, which had received an urgent letter from New York in April, now on July 10th entered the ranks.^ Though Nantucket refused to bind herself formally by any engagement, her merchants were in spirit and practice sympathetic to the cause. The Connecticut assembly on October 9, 1769, p...assed resolutions expressing warm approval of the agreements,^ and on the 18th the New Jersey assembly formally extended its thanks to New York and Philadelphia for "their disinterested and public spirited conduct." ' Providence gave in her accession on October 10th,* Newport on October 30th,^ Wethersfield on December 25th,^ Middletown ' on February 20, 1770, Watertown « in March, and Falmouth (Port- land) on June 26th of that year.' Many inland towns, such as Lan- caster, Pennsylvania, which received their goods from the seaboard importers, agreed not to deal with those who broke the compact.^" In the country districts where non-importation was a matter of less serious consequence than it was in the seaports, the plan was seized upon with avidity, and the town meetings passed resolutions, often there wished to include among the exempted commodities such Indian goods as blankets, strouds, penistones, gimps, linens, vermilions, and brass kettles.
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