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"From the Pennsylvania Chronicle. Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the inhabitants of the British Colonies ..."
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In this second of "Farmer" Dickinson's twelve letters, the author turns his attention to another matter: Parliament's levying of duties through the Townshend Acts. Dickinson's defense of the rights of all Englishmen, published in newspapers to his "Beloved Countrymen", is immensely popular in the colonies. He raises the legal question: how can Parliament demand the colonists' money without obtaining their consent?
To view all four pages of this newspaper, please see the online display of the The Supplement to the Boston Chronicle, 21 December 1767.