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Cheers and have a safe tomorrow. Hello and thank you for joining the American Revolution.

Today, episode 37, committees of correspondence, and the Lost Colony of Vandelia.

So last week, Rhode Islanders attacked and sank the British Navy ship HMS Gaspi.

Despite some isolated events like that,

the colony seemed to lack a unified front

after the removal of soldiers from Boston

and the repeal of most of the towns and duties. Without continuing

outrages from London, some radical patriots grew concern that the majority

of the colonial population would grow complacent. The North Ministry used the calm to make many small tweaks to the power

structure. This would give London a much greater advantage the next time officials

provoked a showdown.

Following the trial of the Boston Massacre soldiers,

acting Massachusetts Governor Hutchinson

submitted his resignation to Secretary of State Hillsborough in London.

Hutchinson had decided he simply was not up to the task of enforcing law and order in the colony.

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