In this letter to Massachusetts Patriot Samuel Adams dated December 31, 1770, Arthur Lee informs Adams about the political situation in London and emphasizes the importance of improving coordination among the colonial assemblies to resist British oppression. Lee was serving as the deputy colony agent for Massachusetts and living in London at the time.
In this essay published in Rind’s Virginia Gazette on March 19, 1767, Arthur Lee articulates his opposition to slavery. Born at Stratford Hall, Lee wrote this essay shortly after returning to Virginia following thirteen years living in Scotland and England.
In this letter published in the April 14, 1768, issue of Rind’s Virginia Gazette, “Monitor” calls for an association that would prioritize American goods over British imports. This was one of a series of ten essays published in the Gazette under the pseudonym “Monitor” and attributed to Arthur Lee. The Monitor Letters protested new taxes and other policies imposed by Parliament and helped shape colonial politics in the years leading up to the Revolutionary War. Between 1769 and 1774, Virginians drafted several nonimportation agreements.
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