Well, if you insist....Humpday Triviola

Looks like it's hint time......

The "British Subjects" were Colonists. What caused the Swamp Law action was the "Broad Arrow".

T.

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....I'll be off the grid until tomorrow so I'll check for answers then. Tom

Re: Looks like it's hint time......

Broad Arrow is a broad but Kingly hint. I know what the Broad Arrow meant, and that was enough to google the rest of the answer.

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Gary Helps with more hinting

The Broad Arrow was the King's mark. It was that mark that created the problem and led to the conflict. So what was the Swamp Law enacted by the Colonists? And what was the name of the conflict?

Tom

Looks like I stumped the panel...Answer

A rare stumper for you triviologists eh? Well, I'll just set aside this week's Golden Uni for the next time. Here is this week's answer:

In 1700s Britain there were 222 crimes which were punishable by death, including crimes such as cutting down a tree.' The King's Broad Arrow (mark shown below) signified property of the King and the trees were to be used solely for building ships for the Royal British Navy. Upset colonists who made a great deal of money from the wood were more than a little irritated. Early American pioneers had this timber on their properties, within their grasp, yet they were not to touch it. "Swamp Law" was exercised by many of the colonists, whereby many of the "King's" pines were cut illegally, the "Kings Broad Arrow" mark obliterated and the wood was put to use. Colonists cut down all the trees marked with the king's broad arrow and then placed the broad arrow on smaller trees. This rebellion led to numerous skirmishes between the locals settlers and the British and became known as "The White Pine War".

Re: Looks like I stumped the panel...Answer

Damn Tommy, my mind must have been on vacation. In Fremont, the next town over from me is a historic marker commemorating the Mast Tree Riot of around 1750 something. Locals caught Dunbar, the King's provincial surveyor of timber putting the broad arrow on trees in their neighborhood and gave him a new suit....tar and feathers. Like the Boston Tea party, they were also disguised as Native Americans (notice my rare slip into political correctness). Mast tree riots, and tar and feathering were fairly frequent occurances in northern New England in those days. It's not a funny thing like jokes and cartoons make it out to be. Recipients usually received bad second degree burns over most of their body and many later died of secondary infections in those days before antibiotics.