The Essex Gazette
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The Essex Gazette was a weekly newspaper established in 1768 by Samuel Hall in Salem, Massachusetts, as the city's first newspaper and the first published in Massachusetts outside Boston, the colony's
The Essex Gazette August 9, 1768
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Boston Port Act
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The Boston Port Act, also called the Trade Act 1774, was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain which became law on March 31, 1774, and took effect on June 1, 1774. It was one of five measures that
The Essex Gazette
…burdensome taxes imposed by the King, the non-importation agreements, the Boston Massacre (1770), the Boston Tea Party (December 16, 1773), the 1774 Boston Port Act (one of five Intolerable Acts), the resultant town meetings, and the popular animosity and disregard for the British Crown and Parliament, were well…
Satirical image depicting three sailors feeding fish to imprisoned Bostonian citizens.