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    The Hutchinson letters affair was an incident that increased tensions between the colonists of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and the British government...
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  • his brother William Whately in a duel. "These letters, though not official, related wholly to public affairs, and were intended to affect public measures...
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    (1754 political cartoon) Albany Plan of Union Albany Congress Hutchinson letters affair Committee of Secret Correspondence Committee of Five "...to be...
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    destroyed the whole house of his close associate Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson. It is believed that the Sons of Liberty did this to excite the lower...
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    the militia: The Massachusetts General Assembly was stymied by Governor Hutchinson from passing a bill. As a result, resisting legislators, including Samuel...
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    conscience" in religious matters. In 1637, a second group including Anne Hutchinson established a second settlement on Rhode Island, today called Aquidneck...
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    family's reaction. The response threw him into emotional turmoil, including letters from his wife and other relatives. Soon after departure, he ordered the...
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    1772 Boston Pamphlet Committees of correspondence Boston, 1772 Hutchinson letters affair Co-inspired and publicized, Boston Tea Party Signed, 1774 Continental...
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    future. Letters were to be passed through the women's circle that Peggy Arnold was a part of, but only Peggy would be aware that some letters contained...
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    suspicions of financial speculation by exposing his affair with Maria and producing as evidence the letters by both of the Reynolds, proving that his payments...
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    York and placed his command under Washington. De Grasse received these letters in July at roughly the same time Cornwallis was preparing to occupy Yorktown...
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    this inspired future liberal politicians and philosophers. Writing his Letters Concerning Toleration (1689–1692) in the aftermath of the European wars...
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    p. 285 Nickerson (1967), p. 362 Williams, Stephen (March 26, 2016). "Letters change view of Benedict Arnold, Gen. Gates". The Daily Gazette. Archived...
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    liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" to African Americans. Thomas Hutchinson, the former royal governor of Massachusetts, also published a rebuttal...
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    (1754 political cartoon) Albany Plan of Union Albany Congress Hutchinson letters affair Committee of Secret Correspondence Committee of Five "...to be...
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    would be subject to the authority of the British Empire. By 1774, however, letters published in colonial newspapers, mostly by anonymous writers, began asserting...
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    Graebner, Norman A.; Burns, Richard Dean; Siracusa, Joseph M. (2011). Foreign affairs and the founding fathers: from Confederation to constitution, 1776–1787...
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    Legislative Studies Quarterly (1989): 5–37. online Burnett, Edmund Cody, ed. Letters of members of the Continental Congress (8 vol. Carnegie institution of...
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    Britain or the American colonies. In England, John Cartwright had published Letters on American Independence in the pages of the Public Advertiser during the...
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    their government. The letters' contents were used as evidence of a systematic plot against American rights, and discredited Hutchinson in the eyes of the...
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    have been a demotion and instead resigned his commission. The "Jumonville affair" became the incident which ignited the French and Indian War, later to become...
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    battalions, but such as are good seamen, or so acquainted with maritime affairs as to be able to serve for and during the present war with Great Britain...
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