Charters of Freedom

1776 Declaration of Independence Committee preparing the Declaration Nothing of particular excitement occurring for a considerable time our countrymen seemed to fall into a state of insensibility to our situation. The duty on tea not yet repealed & the Declaratory act of a right in the British parliament to bind us by their laws in all cases whatsoever, still suspended over us. But a court of inquiry held in R. There may have been a member or two more whom I do not recollect. The Apollo Room of the Raleigh Tavern, circa 1750 We therefore drew up the resolutions which may be seen in Wirt pa 87. The Govr. The next event which excited our sympathies for Massachusetts was the Boston port bill, by which that port was to be shut up on the 1st of June, 1774. View of Boston from Dorchester Heights The people met generally, with anxiety & alarm in their countenances, and the effect of the day thro' the whole colony was like a shock of electricity, arousing every man & placing him erect & solidly on his centre.