Download The Bostonians Paying The Excise-Man 1774 PNG. The event of january 24, 1774 occurred soon after the boston tea party of december 16, 1773 where colonists famously dumped imported tea into the harbor to protest. A 1774 british print depicted the tarring and feathering of boston commissioner of customs john malcolm.

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The metropolitan museum of art new york city, united states. Since the stamp act of 1765, the british colonists in north america had rejected several taxes and tariffs. A second boston tea party took place in march 1774, when around 60 bostonians boarded the ship.

Bostonians were used to governing themselves rather than the british monarchy ruling them.

The phrase is paying through the nose. Cartoon in mezzotint, published by sayer and bennett, london, 1774. (1774) the bostonian's paying the. This illustration shows the tarring and.