The Edinburgh Advertiser, November 13-16, 1770, printed by Alexander Donaldson. Red tax stamp. Non-Importation Agreement—On September 24, 1770, a meeting of the subscribers of the non-importation agreement—chaired by Thomas Willing, Esq.—was held at Davenport’s tavern in Philadelphia, and a resolution was approved to alter the agreement, without consultation with the other colonies, “to open the importation of goods from Great Britain and other parts of Europe, except teas, and such other articles as are, or may be subject to duties for the purpose of raising a revenue in America.”
The Davenport tavern agreement, among “several importers of dry goods at Philadelphia,” was the subject of a “large body of inhabitants…at the State house," with Joseph Fox, Esq,. as chairman; it was resolved that there should have been consultation with the other colonies before any breach of the non-importation agreement; the inhabitants will join with the merchants; there should be no importation of goods from other colonies; the adoption of the Maryland agreement would be of advantage to Pennsylvania and “tend to keep up a harmony among the colonies and to procure a repeal of the offensive act”—likely the Revenue Act/Townshend duties. London Packet (Capt. James Cook) to be loaded with goods destined for Philadelphia as a consequence of the “confirmation of the account lately received of the merchants of that place having come to a resolution to import goods as usual (tea excepted).” Other reports about the dissolution of the non-importation agreement “in almost every province in North America.”
