1769 newspaper BRITISH TAXATION The Townshend Acts LED toTHE AMERICAN REVOLUTION - $250 - (Oxford, MD)

1769 newspaper BRITISH TAXATION is OPPOSED by the AMERICAN COLONIES with a NON-IMPORTATION AGREEMENT- inv # 9J-115 Please visit our EBAY STORE at the link directly below for THOUSANDS more HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at auction: http://stores.ebay.com/Steve-Goldman-HISTORICAL-NEWSPAPERS_W0QQsspagenameZL2222QQtZkm SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE ORIGINAL Revolutionary War NEWSPAPER, the London Chronicle (England) dated Oct 17, 1769. This newspaper has 8 pages with a page size of 11.5" x 8.5". This newspaper contains an inside page report from New York of the American Colonies' intention NOT TO IMPORT BRITISH GOODS as long as Great Britain levies a tax on imports to the American Colonies. This was the NON-IMPORTATION AGREEMENT in the American Colonies in response to the Townshend Acts and the tax on British imported tea that led to the AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR. The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed — beginning in 1767 — by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. Historians vary slightly in which acts they include under the heading "Townshend Acts", but five acts are often mentioned: the Revenue Act of 1767, the Indemnity Act (1767), the Commissioners of Customs Act (1767), the Vice Admiralty Court Act (1768), and the New York Restraining Act (1767). The purpose of the Townshend Acts was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would remain loyal to Great Britain, to create a more effective means of enforcing compliance with trade regulations, to punish the province of New York for failing to comply with the 1765 Quartering Act, and to establish the precedent that the British Parliament had the right to tax the colonies. The Townshend Acts (1767) were met with resistance in the colonies, prompting the occupation of Boston by British troops in 1768, which eventua…

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