This quote illustrates that the colonists were unhappy that a government three thousand miles away was making decisions about their property. ... In reference to the Stamp Act in 1765, Benjamin Franklin is quoted as saying during a testimony of the act, "I know it is appropriated by the act to the American service; but it will be spent in the conquered colonies, where the soldiers are, not in the colonies that pay it....... In a letter from a Boston merchant named John Andrews to his brother in Philadelphia it says, "I sincerely believe they [the British Parliament] intend to carry o...

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