1 jan 1765 ano - 1765

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1765
The British pass the Stamp Act, and the Colonists riot in protest at Oliver’s Dock. Lawyer James Otis declares, “Taxation without representation is tyranny.”

Can’t find Oliver’s Dock on current Boston maps? Built in the 1640s when a marshy inlet was dug out to provide a harbor, Oliver’s Dock remained even after the harbor was mostly filled in during the 1720s. After a liberty pole was erected on the land-locked “dock” during a celebration to honor the French Revolution in the 1790s, the area was renamed Liberty Square.

You can find Liberty Square - and the site of the Stamp Act riot - today in the heart of Boston’s Downtown Financial District at the triangle formed by the intersection of Kilby, Water, and Batterymarch Streets.

Meanwhile, also in 1765, Dorchester physician Dr. James Baker opens the first and longest-lasting chocolate mill in America at the site of an old sawmill on the Neponset River.

Baker's descendants sold the company - Baker Chocolate - in 1927 to General Foods, which closed the Dorchester factory in 1965. Sadly, the delicious scent of chocolate no longer perfumes the air of Boston.

Also in 1765, Phyllis Wheatley, a 12-year-old enslaved girl owned by a wealthy Boston family who taught her to read and write, publishes her first poem, the first of many that turn her into a celebrated American poet.

By the time that Wheatley is 20, she publishes her first book of poems—thus becoming the first African-American to publish a book—and is freed from slavery.

1765 land maps note that apple trees planted more than 100 years earlier near the present-day intersection of Charles and Beacon Streets by Boston’s first English settler, William Blaxton, still bear fruit.

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