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John Hancock’s Direct Confrontations With Customs Officers

Season 46, Ep. 5

Discover what new legislation Parliament enacted between 1766-1767 following passage of Declaratory Act. Go behind the scenes and learn for whom the new legislation was named after as well as the intended objectives. Determine if the new legislation placed any form of indirect tax on items that required getting imported from Britain. Understand what an Indirect Tax pertains directly to. Discover how Parliament came to establish the American Customs Board. Find out how merchants not involved in smuggling felt about new regulations including John Hancock’s personal outlook. Learn firsthand if the new customs board chose to go after John Hancock. Agree if smuggling in general wasn’t anything new, but understand why legislation after 1763 came into play. Go behind the scenes and discover when John Hancock himself first encountered issues with customs officials. Learn everything there is possible about writs of assistance including Hancock’s confrontation with customs officials over the matter. Discover how customs officials responded following their confrontation with Hancock. Get introduced to Fourth Rate British Ship HMS Romney including why she arrived into Boston Harbor come year 1768. Learn whether HMS Romney went after Hancock’s Sloop Liberty. Get introduced to Massachusetts Royal Governor Francis Bernard including Lord Hillsborough, Secretary of State to American Colonies. Learn what takes place come October 1768 at Boston’s Long Wharf.

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