Suffolk Resolves

Suffolk Resolves
The Suffolk Resolves House, 2009
Created	September 6, 1774
Presented	September 9, 1774
Commissioned by	Suffolk Committee of correspondence
Author(s)	Joseph Warren
Subject	Political crisis in Massachusetts Bay
Purpose	Protestation of the Intolerable Acts

The Suffolk Resolves was a declaration made on September 9, 1774, by the leaders of Suffolk County, Massachusetts. The declaration rejected the Massachusetts Government Act and resulted in a boycott of imported goods from Britain unless the Intolerable Acts were repealed. The Resolves were recognized by statesman Edmund Burke as a major development in colonial animosity leading to adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1776, and he urged British conciliation with the American colonies, to little effect. The First Continental Congress endorsed the Resolves on September 17, 1774,^[1] and passed the similarly themed Continental Association on October 20, 1774.