The New York Gazette or Weekly Post Boy, February 27, 1766; reproduced in New Jersey Archives, First Series, XXV, 38.
A large Gallows was erected in Elizabeth-Town last Week, with a Rope ready fixed thereto; and the Inhabitants there vow and declare that the first Person that either distributes and [or] takes out [i.e., uses] Stamped Paper, shall be hung thereon without Judge or Jury.
121. Origin of the Virginia Non-importation Agreement
a. Protest of the Burgesses against the Proposal of the English Government to send Americans, accused of Treason, to England for Trial.
Journals of the House of Burgesses, 1766-1769, 212-218.
Tuesday, the 16th of May. 9 Geo. III. 1769.
... The Order of the Day being read, for the House to resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House, to consider of the present State of the Colony;
Ordered, That ... one other Statute made in the Thirty-fifth Year of the same King's Reign [Henry VIII], entituled, An Act for the Trial of Treasons committed out of the King's Dominions, be referred to the said Committee.
Then the House resolved itself into the said Committee.