On this day 250 years ago, John Temple wrote to his father-in-law James Bowdoin that he had been dismissed as Surveyor General of Customs without notice or explanation. Bowdoin was a prominent Patriot who chaired the Massachusetts Council, and the British Government’s mistreatment of his son-in-law hardened his opposition to British rule.

Source: https://founders.archives.gov/?q=%22March%2015%2C%201774%22&s=1111311111&sa=&r=1&sr= at n.8