1 jan 1761 ano - 1761 Tension Builds & Fire at Faneuil Hall

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1761 Events
Boston's rallying cry from 1750 continues: "No taxation without representation!"

Boston lawyer James Otis argues in the Old State House against passage of the Writs of Assistance, which would allow the British to freely enter and search colonists’ homes and businesses for contraband related to the Molasses Act of 1733. Otis argues that this violates the “natural rights” of the Colonists and that “a man’s house is his castle.”

John Adams—future 2nd President of the future United States—watches Otis in court and later writes in his autobiography, “Then and there, the child Independence was born.”

Also in 1761, fire destroys much of Faneuil Hall.

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