On this day 250 years ago the Committee of Correspondence of Berkshire County, Massachusetts wrote to the Boston Committee of Correspondence of their planned response to the Massachusetts Government Act that the British Parliament had passed with the other Intolerable Acts earlier in the year. The Massachusetts Government Act provided that all judges would be appointed by the King instead of by Massachusetts’s elected Council as they had been before the Act went into effect. The court in Berkshire County was the first court scheduled to open with judges appointed by the Crown after the Act went into effect. The Berkshire County Committee wrote that the “people this way” would “by no means submit to the New Regulations.” They said they were planning to prevent the court from sitting when it was scheduled to convene on August 16, “unless we should hear from you.”

Source: https://allthingsliberty.com/2015/09/when-rabble-rousing-samuel-adams-slowed-down-the-revolution/#_edn2