Yesterday 250 years ago, a general Town meeting was held in the Town of Huntingdon on Long Island in New York led by Israel Wood, then President of the Town’s Board of Trustees. That meeting adopted seven resolutions that have come to be known as Huntington’s Declaration of Rights. The first resolution was “that every freeman’s property is absolutely his own, and no man has a right to take it from him without his consent, expressed either by himself or his representative.” The taxes imposed on Americans by the British Parliament in which the colonies were not represented was therefore “a violation of the most essential rights of British subjects.”
Tomorrow on June 23, 1774 the Town of Huntingdon will be commemorating the 250th Anniversary of Huntingdon’s Declaration of Rights.
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