Documents in Year 1772                     

Links of Interest:

• King George III, British Monarch over American Colonies

• American Revolution

Primary Source Documents:

The Rights of the Colonists by Samuel Adams, founding member of "the Sons of Liberty"

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

In late 1772, a member of English Parliament secretly passed Franklin a packet of letters written by the English Massachusetts governor, Thomas Hutchinson who talked openly of restricting "English liberties" in the colonies in order to suppress the growing rebellion. When these letters were published outraged colonists protests grew in intensity."

Johnson, Steven. The Invention of Air. New York: Riverhead, 2008.

• Technology: Chronometer invented to determine Longitude at sea

John Harrison, 79 year old English carpenter, completes H5, a timekeeper for determining longitude at sea making it possible for England to control the shipping trade.
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Lasky, Kathryn. The Man Who Made Time Travel. Canada: Douglas & McIntyre, 2003.
Sobel, Dava. Longitude. New York: Walker, 1995.

• Wild West/Frontier:

Fincastle County, Virginia formed

The Kantuckee Frontier wilderness of westward expansion

Source: "Lincoln County Kentucky" by Turner Publishing Company 2002 page 10