Jonathan Boucher was a preacher, a Tory who firmly believed in protest against Government wrongs, and who strongly supported the 1765 Stamp Act and the vestry act in Maryland.
He was also an ardent Tory, believing firmly that protest against Government wrongs should be carried out within the law but definitely not an uncritical supporter of British policy; for example, he considered the 1765 Stamp Act to be "oppressive, impolitic and illegal", and the Royal proclamation against the Westward Expansion of the thirteen colonies "unjust and impolitic". 
