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(COLONIAL TAX COLLECTOR ATTACKED BY AN ANGRY MOB): A fascinating D.S. 1p. legal folio, March 21,...
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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2003 Mar 29 @ 13:00UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT
(COLONIAL TAX COLLECTOR ATTACKED BY AN ANGRY MOB): A fascinating D.S. 1p. legal folio, March 21, 1767, in which Deputy Marshall George Beasley accuses William Mclacklan, a resident of Beaufort -Port Royal, S.C., of inciting a mob against him. In this sworn statement, Deputy Beasley offers his version of this rather comic incident, stating that: "...On the tenth day of March [1767] instant he [Beasley] was at Beaufort Port Royal ...about the lawful business of the said Roger Pinckney [The Marshall]...After much abuse given him by one William Mclacklan, such as calling him 'Marshall's Dog' and other names he heard the said Mclacklan say to several sailors then present, that: 'if they, the sailors would give that Dam'd rascal of a Marshall's Dog a good thrashing he would give them a handsome treat...In consequence of such offer...they began to throw dirt at and mob him in such a manner that he verily believes that if he had not applied to...a magistrate who was then present...they would have taken his life...After that, he was obliged to hide himself from their fury and leave those parts with the business he was charged with undone ...". In other words, he was unable to collect the money he had been sent to get because they ran him out of town! As one might expect, the eagerness with which the sailors were willing to attack a colonial official goes beyond the "Handsome Treat " promised them by McLacklan. As a consequence of British taxation policies many of the local sailors had become smugglers and understandably resented a Government official snooping around their places of business. This incident is only one of many similar acts taking place throughout the colonies in this period, as resentment of British government began the process of moving towards open Rebellion and the American Revolution. Minor splits at folds, otherwise very good. $300-400
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