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The passing of the Stamp Act in March 1765 caused a good deal of unrest in the American colonies. The Sons of Liberty were a leading group of American dissidents at this time. The Loyal Nine , a group of nine businessmen, led the Sons of Liberty and were a link between the common people and wealthier classes. [ 2 ]
Sometime after the Stamp Act 1765 was passed in March 1765, the Loyal Nine began meeting at the office of the Boston Gazette with the goal of preventing the act from taking effect that November. [1] In August, they found a mob captain among the common people to do their bidding: a shoemaker by the name of Ebenezer Mackintosh. [2]
The Stamp Act of 1765. Minneapolis, Minn.: Compass Point Books. ISBN 978-0-7565-08463. Burns, Eric (2007). Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism. Public Affairs, (of Perseus Books). ISBN 978-1-5864-85436. C. Carroll, Hugh F. Carroll (1907). Printers and printing in Providence, 1762–1907 ...
By the middle of the twentieth century, hundreds of stamp clubs had formed throughout the United States, often affiliated with large organizations, such as the American Philatelic Society or the American Topical Association. Many published their own scholarly articles or journals, while others advertised in the journals of larger philatelic ...
The postage stamps of China; with a history of the Chinese Imperial Post, 1908, 44pp; The Postage Stamps of Great Britain, Junior Philatelic Society, 1904, 56pp; The Postage Stamps of Hayti, C Nissen & Co, 1905, 69pp; The Postage Stamps of Sarawak 1869-1906, C Nissen & Co, 1907, 84pp; The Postage Stamps of the Cayman Islands, Severn-Wylie ...
The Americana series was the first definitive issue since that of 1922-31 not to include any fractional-cent values; instead, it presented the first decimal values assigned to U. S. Postage stamps, which appeared on coil stamps denominated between 3.1 cents and 8.4 cents, produced for the use of bulk mailers and other businesses.
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Columbia University history professor David Armitage was quoted in the New York Times as saying that the book was "a spectacular and sustained act of plagiarism." [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Despite these accusations, Mackay continued to be commissioned to write articles for the philatelic press, and it has been said that almost the entire text of some ...