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Westford 250 – The Solemn League and Covenant and Westford’s Response to the 1774 Intolerable Acts
Westford 250 – The Solemn League and Covenant and Westford’s Response to the 1774 Intolerable Acts
In the spring and summer of 1774, news had reached Boston that Britain’s Parliament had invoked several measures in retaliation for the Destruction of the Tea in Boston Harbor, known as the “Intolerable Acts”. Samuel Adams and the Boston committee of correspondence developed a non-importation pledge known as the “Solemn League and Covenant”. The Covenant […]