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CONNECTICUT PATRIOTS OFFER FOOD TO STARVING BOSTONIANS SUFFERING UNDER THE "BOSTON PORT ACT"
Fascinating manuscript D.S., 1p. legal folio, Lebanon, Ct., July 18, 1774 in which local citizens pledge support to Bostonians suffering under "The Boston Port Act", one of the "Intolerable Acts" of 1774. The document enlists subscribers to pledge sums to the "Overseers of the Poor of the Town of Boston to be Employed for the Relief of such industrious & distressed People as are now suffering under the evil Oppression of a certain Act of Parliament called the Boston Port Bill..." At bottom, twenty signatories pledge not money but grain, "fat sheep", and lambs! Very good. The Boston Port Bill was undertaken as a response to the Boston Tea Party. King George III''s speech of 7 March 1774 charged the colonists with attempting to injure British commerce and subvert the Constitution, and on the 18th Lord North brought in the Port Bill. It ordered the blockade of Boston to all ships until such time as restitution was made to the King''s treasury (for customs duty lost) and to the East India Company for damages suffered. In other words, it closed Boston Port to all ships, no matter what business the ship had. Throughout the colonies, patriots pledged support to the beleaguered Bostonians - the first time the colonies would act in concert against British interests.

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