The colonists claimed that they were being taxed unfairly and were not given proper representation. These acts and other subsequent taxation policies led to the famous phrase "taxation without representation." The colonists that were making this claim were individuals that were associated with the Sons of Liberty like Samuel Adams and other thinkers of the time like Thomas Paine.
Providence was in agreement with the native americans and the people were promised religious freedom and separation of church and state. Another dissident who is anne hutchinson educated that worshippers to did not need the church or its ministers to understand the bible for them. Displaced from the colony with her family and a band of followers and escaped first to rhode island and after her husband died to new netherlands which later developed portion of new york where she died in a war with native americans.
