On this day 250 years ago the Boston Gazette and Country Journal published a letter from a Patriot from the Town of Duxbury, Massachusetts complaining about “Resolves of the town of Marshfield” that opposed “the destruction of teas, &c.” and supported the British authorities rather than the Sons of Liberty. The letter writer asserted the Marshfield Resolves were “effected principally by the insinuating act of a certain man, who having lately rendered himself odious to the Province by his conduct in a public station, is endeavoring to wipe off the infamy on the people of that town.” That man was named Nathaniel Ray Thomas and during the next year accept an appointment as a government official and invite British troops to occupy Marshfield, and protect him and other Loyalists from the wrath of the Patriots.

Source: https://historicaldigression.com/2015/01/24/a-tea-party-tories-and-redcoats-in-marshfield/