(AMERICAN REVOLUTION PRELUDE 1765) The Pennsylvania Gazette

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BEN FRANKLIN'S FIRST REACTION TO THE STAMP ACT (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE, 1765.) The Pennsylvania Gazette. 4 pages, 15 1/2 x 10 inches, on one sheet; rebacked with paper, minor foxing, contemporary annotations. Philadelphia: Benjamin Franklin and David Hall, 30 May 1765

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believed to contain the first printed american references to the passage of the stamp act: "Westminster, March 22. This day the Royal assent was given to an Act for granting and applying certain Stamp Duties, and other Duties, in the British colonies and plantations in America, towards further defraying the expences of defending, protecting, and securing the same." The full impact of this news may not have been immediately apparent. It is discussed in two items. Another London item, probably not penned by Franklin, reports: "We hear the sum of money arising from the new stamp duties in North-America, for the first five years, are chiefly to be applied towards making commodious post roads from one province to another, erecting bridges where necessary, and other public measures equally important, to facilitate an extensive trade." Under the Philadelphia news: "The Stamp Act takes Place the First Day of November next; and John Hughes and William Coxe, Esquires, we hear, are the Officers appointed for this Province, and the Jerseys." From this first response, popular resistance gradually increased until many of the colonial cities exploded with rage when the act finally took effect on 1 November.