No to the Stamp!

On November 30, 1765, Frederick County citizens assembled at the site of their first courthouse to support the daring action taken a week earlier when the justices of Frederick County repudiated the Crown's new law requiring the colonies to use taxed stamped paper for all business transactions. An account in the Maryland Gazette of December 16, 1765, portrayed the Stamp Act as having received a mortal wound at the hands of justice and described its burial amid the joy of Frederick County's inhabitants. The deed by the justices was later considered the first rebellious act of defiance by an official body toward British Parliament and the King of England.

Frederick, Maryland · United States