On this day 250 years ago in Boston, Josiah Quincy, Jr. published his pamphlet entitled Observations on the Act of Parliament commonly called the Boston Port-Bill; with Thoughts on Civil Society and Standing Armies. This influential pamphlet was widely circulated in the Colonies and persuasively set forth the Patriots’ arguments. Quincy ended his pamphlet with a stirring call to arms: “AMERICA hath . . . Patriots and Heroes, who will form a BAND OF BROTHERS:—men who will have memories and feelings—courage and swords:—courage, that shall inflame their ardent bosoms, till their hands cleave to their swords—and their SWORDS to their Enemies hearts.”
Also on this day in Boston, the Committee of Correspondence dispatched Paul Revere to ride to Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia to deliver news of the passage of the Boston Port Act and copies of the letter approved by the Committee the previous day.
Sources: https://www.colonialsociety.org/node/2598
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