I am not sure what your question is, but the Association was the
boycott which the First Continental Congress approved in 1774, in reponse
to the Coercive Acts passed by Parliament.  The Asscoation committed those
who agreed to it not to import goods from Great Britain, Ireland, or the
West Indies or East India Tea from anyplace and to end American
participation in the slave trade.  If these actions failed to get
Parliament to repeal the Coercive Act, the Association pledged its signers
to prohibit exports to Great Britain, as well.  Local committees were
organized in the communities to enforce the Association, and non-signers
were often ostracized  and had their names listed in the newspapers.


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On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Patricia Tidmarsh wrote:

>In Philip Smith's History of Duchess County 1877 at the Cornell MOA I
>found a list of 1775 Minute Men and also a long list
>of signers of the "Association" in Dutchess County.  Can someone give me a
>pointer as to where I could learn what this meant.
>