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"Extract of a letter from one of the council of Boston, in New-England, to a merchant in London."
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- Coming of the American Revolution
This excerpted letter, written by an unnamed Boston councilman to a merchant in London, was printed in May 1764 in the The Massachusetts Gazette and Boston-Newsletter. The letter laments that the inconveniences imposed by the Stamp Act, Currency Act, and other actions by George Grenville have depressed Colonial trade revenue so badly that the system could collapse. At the end, it is suggested that England may lose its colonies as a result.