Thats what our fore fathers fought for, taxation without representation, rights, constitution, and what a good job they did for they have lasted us all these years and served us well, and they would not want us to lose any of what they fought for and won. My 3rd. great grand father that i know of fought and believe others also. know that The Patriot " Terrence O'Connor " the pioneer, enlisted in Sept. 1776 in Prince William Co.,Va. in the Virginia Continental Troops under Col. Daniel Morgan, commanded by General Woodford, serving three years ,two months, discharged by Woodford at Bush encampment on North River, On his tombstone it reads "A Soldier Of The Revolution, An Associate Of Washington And Lafayette" stella

I have aquired the book "Freedom of the Press in England, 1476 - 1776" by Fredrick Seaton Siebert (1952) (Library of Congress Catalogue # 52-5892) from the college book shelf of books being discarded or just ' given away' from our local community college...I guess they were cleaning their shelves...their rubish is presently my treasure...I wanted to share something I learned that I had no knowledge of... As a side view of understanding further of what our stamp tax did, this is what the 'original' stamp act was supposed to do -> Interestingly, the First Stamp Tax in England took place in 1693, and then, again in 1703, 1704, and then again in 1714, via the House of Lords which acted as a substitue method of controlling freedom of the press. They taxed the printers; the more pages that made up their paper, booklet, book, equated a more expensive price for that particular paper goods. This ultimately caused the price of the printer's news to become too expensive for the lower classes to read, and of course, those were the ones who wanted to be kept informed and who had alot to loose when kept isolated from what was actually going on at that time. This taxation was also a way the monarch could 'legally' spread false news, pointing out the increase in heretical, seditious and scandalous publication since the expiration of th Acts for the Regulation of Printing, which meant the monarch could order that 'the publication of false news or of books of this kind is to stop" which is defined as contrived censorship. this press control system of the eighteenth century rested on four supports: (1) stamp tax which eliminated a large number of marginal newspapers and rendered those whoich survived financially unstable and therefore susceptible to subsidizaton (2) the system of subsidization as represented by ministerial writers and the ministrerial press (3) strict control of public discussions of the proceedings in Parliament, and (4)active prosecution of the laws of seditious libel. Although the increasingly heavy stamp duties on newspapers and periodicals were applied to both opposition and ministerial press alike, the latter was able to obtain such advantages as ready acess to news sources and free distribution through the postal system as well as direct financial assistance from the Treasury. So, England by the time she had us as colonies, had this stamp tax perfected...and now I am beginning to understand how they applied this concept to us and why we ultimately took the action that we did. Rhonda Houston -----Original Message----- From: starbabe1936 [mailto:STARBABE1936@webtv.net] Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 10:52 PM To: AMERICAN-REVOLUTION-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [A-REV] freedom of choice with out representation Thats what our fore fathers fought for, taxation without representation, rights, constitution, and what a good job they did for they have lasted us all these years and served us well, and they would not want us to lose any of what they fought for and won. My 3rd. great grand father that i know of fought and believe others also. know that The Patriot " Terrence O'Connor " the pioneer, enlisted in Sept. 1776 in Prince William Co.,Va. in the Virginia Continental Troops under Col. Daniel Morgan, commanded by General Woodford, serving three years ,two months, discharged by Woodford at Bush encampment on North River, On his tombstone it reads "A Soldier Of The Revolution, An Associate Of Washington And Lafayette" stella ==== AMERICAN-REVOLUTION Mailing List ==== ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237