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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Extract from a London letter dated April 10, 1774, published in Boston on May 16, discusses the Boston Port Bill, General Gage's appointment as Governor, high regard for Mr. Hutchinson, and dismisses petitions against the bill as contemptible with only 17 insignificant signers.
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Extract of a Letter from London, dated April 10, 1774.
"Inclosed I send you the Boston Port-Bill, and the Appointment of General Gage, which is very far from indicating any Want of Regard for Mr. Hutchinson. I can truly say, he never stood so high in the Public Estimation; and in the Eyes of all the King's Ministers; so that his Enemies will have little Cause of Triumph in seeing the Commander in Chief of all the King's Troops appointed Governor.
"The Petitions which you see in the Papers to the two Houses and to the King, respecting the Boston Port-Bill, were truly contemptible; only seventeen People could be brought to sign them; and few of them, except Mr. Boylston, of any Property in Boston; many of them perhaps none any where else: Such Men as the two L----s, Mr. S----ar, and Men that after stopping Payment have paid only Three Shillings in the Pound, will do no Credit to a Petition; much less a Man that has been publicly Branded as a Thief and a Liar by the unanimous Vote of 36 Lords; yet he, I hear, was at the Meeting, and had a Hand in the first Concoction of it. The Bill was carried with only one dissenting Voice."
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Boston
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April 10, 1774
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boston port-bill passed with only one dissenting voice; petitions against it signed by only 17 people, deemed contemptible.
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Letter from London encloses Boston Port-Bill and General Gage's appointment as Governor, expresses high regard for Mr. Hutchinson among public and King's Ministers, dismisses anti-bill petitions to Parliament and King as insignificant with few property owners among signers including disreputable individuals.