Attempts to obtain cooeperation of other Colonies.
A] Other colonies, emanating from the same quarters, followed the first, and settled that portion of the valley intervening between the German settlements and the borders of the James River.
Other colonies acquiesced, and at Philadelphia the delegates convened.
But manuscript copies were already on their way to other colonies, and the timidity of the Virginia Burgesses did not soften their force.
The latter organized a Provincial Congress, and, assuming the functions of government, sent forth an address to the people, recommending the adoption of measures for resistance, similar to those pursued in other colonies.
First, with regard to the article of food, I will compare the Jamaica prison allowance with that allotted to the apprenticed negroes in other colonies.
Of the civil and military operations of other colonies I shall write hereafter; for the present, let us view the progress of events at Boston.
As the agreement entered into there is a type of those adopted by the merchants and people of other colonies, I copy from the New York Mercury of November, 1765, the portion of the proceedings of the meeting containing the resolutions.
With this view, it had become usual for the general court to testify its satisfaction with his conduct by presents; and this measure was also adopted in other colonies.
Similar committees were soon afterwards chosen by the towns[220] throughout the province, for the purpose of corresponding with each other; and the example was soon followed by other colonies.
The Burgesses adopted the report of the committee calling for a boycott on English goods to force the repeal of the Townshend Acts and invited the other colonies to join the association.
Lost was the hope of many Virginia land company speculators and those in other coloniesas well.
Massachusetts Legislative Assembly's noble circular to the Assemblies of other Colonies, on the unconstitutional and oppressive acts of the British Parliament.
His conduct different from that of the Governors of other Colonies.
The original right of the natives to the soil was acknowledged, practically, in other colonies; but it was acknowledged as subordinate to the right of the King.
Connecticut, too, was an important slave-trader, sending large numbers of horses and other commodities to the West Indies in exchange for slaves, and selling the slaves in other colonies.
Although she did not import many slaves for her own use, she became the clearing-house for the trade of other colonies.
Moreover, this colony suffered much less interference from the home government than many other colonies; thus it is possible here to trace the untrammeled development of slave-trade restrictions in a typical planting community.
Soon the advantage of this relief from the heavy burden of debt was apparent in all branches of their commerce, and excited the envy of other colonies, in each of which paper was the principal currency.
General Ruggles tried to form a plan of combining the Loyalists against the Disunionists after the model of similar associations formed in other colonies.
The full extent of this law was not carried into effect in Massachusetts, but it was in other colonies.
There were assuredly no other colonies in the world so favorably situated as these were at the close of the Seven Years' War.
Sidenote: =Other colonies to help Boston=] Soon Paul Revere came riding into Philadelphia with the news that the patriots of Boston were in danger of being attacked by the British.
There in Carpenter's Hall, a building still standing, Henry made friends of leading men of other colonies.
The next day, with letters to the leaders in other colonies in his saddlebags, Paul Revere, the great courier of the Revolution, started on his long ride to New York and Philadelphia.
The soldiers of one colony were jealous of the soldiers of other colonies.
In the same year that Parliament passed the four acts to punish Massachusetts, it passed another act which affected the people of other colonies as well as those of Massachusetts.
All of them, as we soon discovered, had {12} already been in Africa or in other colonies, so that we felt ourselves to be poor untravelled home birds.
The position here, as in other colonies, is that the Government says: "Abolish cheap spirits?
Emancipation from the savage state produced by the accumulation of wealth plays no part here, though it may do so in other colonies.
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