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The Townshend Act had a few influential colonial responses, which includes a string of 12 essays written by John Dickinson. The essays were entitled Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvannia was first read in December 1767.
1 The Townshend Acts were not the first taxes levied on the American colonist by the British. 2  The Sugar Act of 1764 and the Stamp Act of 1765 came first.3  The Stamp Act was especially unpopular and was repealed in March of 1766. The Revenue Act of 1767 - this act, by itself, is often referred to as the Townshend Act. 2  This law taxed tea, paper, paint, glass, and lead imported into the colonies. 3  Indemnity Act-this act lowered the tax on Great Britain's largest trading company, the East India Company.