Editing Suffolk Resolves (section)

{{Short description|Massachusetts revolutionary declaration}}
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{{Infobox document
| document_name        = Suffolk Resolves
| image                = Suffolk Resolves House Milton MA 01.jpg
| image_size           = 250px
| image_alt            = Suffolk Resolves House Milton MA
| caption              = The [[Suffolk Resolves House]], 2009
| date_created         = September 6, 1774
| date_presented       = September 9, 1774
| location_of_document = 
| commissioned         = [[Suffolk County, Massachusetts|Suffolk]] [[Committee of correspondence]]
| writer               = [[Joseph Warren]]
| signers              = 
| subject              = Political crisis in [[Province of Massachusetts Bay|Massachusetts Bay]]
| purpose              = Protestation of the [[Intolerable Acts]]
}}
{{Campaignbox American Revolutionary War: Boston}}
[[File:Suffolk Resolves memorial - Norfolk County Registry of Deeds - Dedham Massachusetts - DSC04358.jpg|thumb|Tablet on the Norfolk County Registry of Deeds]]

The '''Suffolk Resolves''' was a declaration made on September 9, 1774, by the leaders of [[Suffolk County, Massachusetts]]. The declaration rejected the [[Massachusetts Government Act]] and resulted in a boycott of imported goods from Britain unless the [[Intolerable Acts]] were repealed. The Resolves were recognized by statesman [[Edmund Burke]] as a major development in colonial animosity leading to adoption of the [[United States Declaration of Independence]] from the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] in 1776, and he urged British conciliation with the American colonies, to little effect. The [[First Continental Congress]] endorsed the Resolves on September 17, 1774,<ref>[[#butterfield1961|Butterfield, 1961]], pp. 187-194</ref> and passed the similarly themed [[Continental Association]] on October 20, 1774.