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John Malcolm (Loyalist) The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or, Tarring & Feathering, a 1774 British print, attributed to Philip Dawe, [1] combines assault on Malcolm with earlier Boston Tea Party in background. John Malcolm (May 20, 1723 - November 23, 1788), sometimes spelled Malcom or Malcomb, was a British sea captain, army officer, and ...
Tarring and feathering was a very common punishment in British colonies in North America during 1766 through 1776. The most famous American tarring and feathering is that of John Malcolm, a British loyalist, during the American Revolution.
In 1774, a customs official and staunch loyalist named John Malcolm was stripped to the waist, tarred and feathered, and forced to announce his resignation under the tree. [7] The following year, Thomas Paine published an ode to the Liberty Tree in The Pennsylvania Gazette. [5]
The Bostonian Paying the Excise-Man, 1774 British anti-American propaganda cartoon, referring to the tarring and feathering of Boston Commissioner of Customs John Malcolm four weeks after the Boston Tea Party. The men also are shown pouring "Tea" down Malcolm's throat; note the noose hanging on the Liberty Tree and the Stamp Act posted upside-down
Malcolm was what would later be known as a Loyalist, a supporter of royal authority. A Bostonian, he worked for the British customs service and pursued his duties with a zeal that made him unpopular. Commoners often "hooted" at Malcolm in the streets, and sailors in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, tarred and feathered him in November 1773. [3]
The customs officer John Malcolm gets tarred and feathered as many others were in Boston 1774. The anger of the Patriots spread up and down the 13 colonies. In New York they were active in destroying printing-presses from which had issued Tory pamphlets, breaking windows of private houses, stealing livestock and personal effects, and destroying ...
The court officials were well aware of stories of British officials being tarred and feathered (as Boston customs official John Malcolm had been in January), while apparently none of Gage's troops appeared to protect them. Under these circumstances the officials reluctantly signed documents disavowing their appointments by George III and, hats ...
Daniel Malcolm. Captain Daniel Malcolm[1] (c. 1725 – October 23, 1769) was an American merchant, sea captain, and smuggler. [2] Malcolm was known for resisting the British authorities in the years leading up to the American Revolutionary War. [3][4] He was the brother of John Malcolm, a minor British customs officer who was violently tarred ...