Year(s) | Colony | Locality | Riot or Riot producing event |
---|---|---|---|
1641 | Rhode Island | Providence | Liberty of conscience riot |
1641 | Rhode Island | Providence | Liberty of conscience riot |
1654 | Maryland | Severn River | "Battle of the Severn" |
1654-1655 | Rhode Island | Political factionalism | |
1663-1750 | Rhode Island | Boundary riots | |
1663-1750 | Connecticut | Boundary riots | |
1663-1750 | Massachusetts | Boundary riots | |
1682 | Virginia | Tobacco plant cutters' riots | |
1690 | North Carolina | Capt Gibbs gubernatorial claim | |
1699 | New Hampshire | Portsmouth | Sailors' riot |
1699-1700 | New Jersey | Land riots and mob assaults on courts | |
1703 | South Carolina | Charleston | Political factionalism |
1703-1710 | New York | Jamaica | Nonconformist disturbances |
1704 | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | Riot of young gentry |
1705 | New York | New York City | Privateersman's riot |
1710 | Massachusetts | Boston | Food riot |
1711 | New York | Flatbush | Dutch church riot |
1711 | New York | New York City | Anti-impressment riot |
1713 | Massachusetts | Boston | Food riot |
1718 | New York-Connecticut | Boundary riot | |
1718 | North Carolina | Riotous seizure of records | |
1719-1764 | New York-New Jersey | Boundary riots | |
1719 | Rhode Island | Newport | Anti-customs riot |
1721-1737 | Pennsylvania-Maryland | Boundary riots | |
1722 | Connecticut | Hartford | Jailbreak riot |
1724 | Connecticut | Hartford County | Riot against ship seizure |
1734 | New Hampshire | Exeter | Mast-tree riot |
1737 | Massachusetts | Boston | Antiprostitution riot |
1737 | Massachusetts | Boston | Antimarkethouse riot |
1737 | North Carolina | Antiquitrent riot | |
1738 | Pennsylvania | Schuykill River | Fish-dam riot |
1742 | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | Election riot |
1745-1754 | New Jersey | Land riots | |
1747 | Massachusetts | Boston | Anti-impressment riot |
1750 | Pennsylvania | York County | Election riot |
1751-1757 | New York | Livingston Manor | Antirent riots by tenants |
1751-1757 | New York-Massachusetts | Boundary riots | |
1754 | New Hampshire | Exeter | Riot against surveyor of woods |
1757 | New Hampshire | Brentwoods | Riot against recruiting for royal troops |
1757 | New Hampshire | Portsmouth | Mob seizes longboat of HMS Enterprise |
1759 | North Carolina | Anti-land-tax riot |
Violence and the American Revolution by Richard Maxwell Brown
Essays on the American Revolution edited by Stephen G. Kurtz and James H. Hutson, pages 117-118
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1973