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... idea that would qualify as genius if he was able to convince the Americans to go through with it. The idea was to tax the Americans on stamps, which came to be known as the Stamp Act of 1765. This is precisely the topic that colonial governor of Connecticut Thomas Fitch (1700-1774) wrote about in 1764. (Bates, A.C. The Fitch Papers, 2 vol, 1918-20) I have spoken of why this made sense for Great Britain, but it is my job through the document, Reasons why the British Colonies, in America, should not be charged with internal taxes by Thomas Fitch to inform you of how it made little sense to the Americans. Fitch finds the taxation of the colonies to be wrong, and he is consistent with his disapproval of it. His disapproval branches from the first page of his document in a Law known well throughout England and the colonies ...