Stamp Act

“The earliest attempt in poetical composition, by Phillis, which has been preserved -- though she probably made many at an earlier date -- is the little poem intended to express her loyal acknowledgements to the King, (George III,) on occasion of the Repeal of the Stamp Act -- an event of intense interest in all the American Colonies.”

Memoir of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave

“With both the Penns and the opposition Quakers busy courting royal favor, the government was all but immobilized in the face of the Stamp Act crisis.”

Simon & Schuster: Robert Morris

“About the time the American Stamp Act was being pushed through Parliament, Reynolds 'studio was the neutral stamping-ground for both parties.”

Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters

“The president of the revolutionary Stamp Act Congress in 1765, Bostonian Timothy Ruggles, also refused to cross that line.”

Simon & Schuster: Angel in the Whirlwind

“Secret societies calling themselves the “Sons of Liberty” after a phrase used in a ringing speech made against the Stamp Act in the House of Commons by Colonel Isaac Barre also arose and pledged themselves to resist any illegitimate parliamentary act or law.”

Simon & Schuster: Angel in the Whirlwind

“When Martin Howard, a loyalist of Newport, Rhode Island, defended the Stamp Act in 1765, Otis denounced the whole town as full of “Turks, Jews, and other infidels with a few renegade Christians and Catholics.””

Simon & Schuster: Angel in the Whirlwind

“The town, when Charlotte arrived, was in a state of political and military turmoil such as it had not known since the Stamp Act Congress met in Federal Hall or the Battle of Golden Hill was fought in John Street.”

Charlotte Temple, a tale of truth; reprinted from the rare first American edition (1794), over twelve hundred errors in later editions being corected, and the preface restored; with an historical and biographical introduction, bibliography, etc., by Francis W. Halsey.