X-post: Just watched the movie "The Patriot," and out of curiosity looked up a British view of the

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I'd like to read the book. If you think of the title, would you please PM me? Thanks!

The American Revolution was a long time in coming. There was widespread dissatisfaction in the colonies from very early on, and much of it had to do with what many colonists considered to be unfair taxation and being given little representation in colonial governance.

In the mid 1600s my 7th great-grandfather Simon Tuttle, a Massachusetts Bay Colony merchant, was arrested and jailed several times for rabble-rousing and making threats against the Crown. His father was so dissatisfied with conditions in the colonies that he emigrated to Ireland, and he stayed there till he died.

Here's a 1664 court record about one of Simon's run-ins with the law. This time he mouthed off to soldiers (bottom half of the page):