The town of Boston ordered portraits of Conway and Barré to be painted, and the pictures hung in Faneuil Hall till the British made way with them during the siege (Mem. Hist. Boston, iii, 181). There is a head of Conway in the European Mag. (i. 159), and another in the London Mag., April, 1782.
The Mass. Assembly, June 20th, thanked Pitt. Cf. Mass. State Papers, by Bradford, pp. 10, 92. For the general scope of the whole period of the Stamp Act turmoil, see, on the American side, beside the contemporary newspapers, Tudor's Otis, ch. 14; Bancroft, v. ch. 11, etc.; Gay, iii. 338; Palfrey, iv. 375; Barry, ii. ch. 10; E. G. Scott's Constitutional Liberty, p. 253; Irving's Washington, i. ch. 28; Parton's Franklin, i. 459-483; Bigelow's Franklin, i. 457; Thornton's Pulpit, etc., 133; Lossing's Field-Book, i. 463; ii. 877. Sparks made sketches and notes for a history of the Stamp Act, which are in the Sparks MSS., no. xliv. On the English side, beside the acts themselves and the current press, the Annual Register, Gentleman's Mag., etc., see Le Marchant's George the Third by Walpole, ii. 217, 236, 260, 277; the Pictorial Hist. England; Mahon; Massey; C. D. Yonge's Constitutional Hist. England, ch. 3; Sir Thomas Erskine May's Const. Hist. England, ii. 550-562; Rockingham and his Contemporaries, i. 250; Fitzmaurice's Shelburne, i. 319; Macknight's Burke, i. ch. 10, 11; J. C. Earle's English Premiers (London, 1871), vol. i. ch. 5; Smyth's Lectures, ii. 379, 423; Lecky, iii. 314, 340 ("Every farthing which it was intended to raise in America, it was intended also to spend there"), and Ryerson's Loyalists, i. ch. 10.
[192] There was a History of Amer. Taxation from 1763, published in a third ed. at Dublin in 1775 (Sabin, vii. 32,125). Franklin contended that at this time taxation of the colonies was a popular idea in England (Works, vii. 350), while Smyth found that at a later day (Lectures, ii. 371) he could get sympathy in speaking of "the miserable, mortifying, melancholy facts of our dispute with America." See synopsis of the arguments pro et con in Life of George Read, 76; Palfrey, iv. 327; Smyth's Lectures, ii. 471; Green's Hist. View, 55; Gardiner and Mullinger's Eng. Hist. for Students (N. Y., 1881), p. 183. Cf. also Bigelow's Franklin, i. 515; Foster's Stephen Hopkins, ii. 244.
A few of the most indicative tracts on the subject may be mentioned:—
Soame Jenyns's Objections to the Taxation of our American Colonies briefly considered (London, 1765; also in his Works, 1790, vol. ii. p. 189), which was answered in James Otis's Considerations on behalf of the British Colonies, dated Boston, Sept. 4, 1765 (Boston and London, 1765).
George Grenville is credited with the authorship of The Regulations lately made concerning the Colonies and the taxes imposed upon them considered (London, 1765,—Carter-Brown, iii. no. 1,472; Sparks Catal., p. 83).
William Knox, the agent of Georgia, printed The Claim of the Colonies to exemption from internal taxes imposed by authority of Parliament examined (Lond., 1765). The Brinley Catal., no. 3,218, shows Franklin's copy, with his annotations.
Daniel Dulaney's Considerations on the propriety of imposing taxes in the British Colonies for the purpose of raising a revenue by Act of Parliament (North America, 1765; Annapolis, 1765; New York, 1765; London, 1766) is in most copies without the author's name. (Cf. Sabin, v. no. 21,170; Carter-Brown, iii. nos. 1,438-39, 1,503; Brinley, i. no. 188; also Frothingham's Rise of the Repub., p. 194, and Chatham Correspondence, iii. 192.)
The late regulations respecting the British colonies in America considered in a letter from a gentleman in Philadelphia to his friend in London (Philad., 1765; Lond., 1765) is usually said to have been by John Dickinson. It is included in his Political Writings, vol. i. A brief tract of two pages, A denunciation of the Stamp Act (Philad., 1765), is also said to be Dickinson's.
The right of Parliament is sustained, but the Stamp Act as a measure condemned, in A letter to a member of Parliament wherein the power of the British legislature and the case of the colonists are briefly and impartially considered (London, 1765,—Sabin, x. 40,406; Carter-Brown, iii. 1,462).