On this day 250 years ago in Milton, Massachusetts, the Suffolk County Convention of delegates from Boston and surrounding towns met. The Convention adopted a resolution that because “the civil government of the Province is not yet placed upon a constitutional foundation,” taxes from Boston and the surrounding towns should be paid to the Treasurer and removed ten miles inland from Boston or any seaport instead of being turned over to the Provincial government.

Source: http://www.miltonhistoricalsociety.org/DigitalArchives/1775%20Feb%2028%20Suffolk%20County%20Convention.pdf