22/24 They fled to the castle in the harbor and wrote to the government for soldiers to protect them. The Virginia Resolves of 1769 .-- Parliament now asked the king to have colonists, accused of certain crimes, brought to England for trial. They passed a set of resolutions, known as the Virginia Resolves of 1769. These resolves asserted: (1) that the colonists only had the right to tax the colonists; (2) that the colonists had the right to petition either by themselves or with the people of other colonies; and (3) that no colonist ought to be sent to England for trial. |