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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.
  The Townshend Acts applied duties (taxes) to paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea imported by the colonies.Townshend had studied the colonist's distinction between intern â¦ al and external taxes and he believed his duties were external as none of the products, except tea, could be made in the colonies.he Townshend Acts required the colonists to pay taxes without their consent. This taxes were placed upon the Colonies by Britain. The colonists were perturbed over these taxe â¦ s, resulting in such things like the Boston Tea Party in attempts to rebel against these taxes.