 The introduction of British Army troops into Boston in 1768 further raised tensions that escalated to the Boston Massacre in 1770.In the years after the enactment of the Townshend Acts, Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson and his colonial secretary (and brother-in-law) Andrew Oliver wrote a series of letters concerning the acts, the protests against them, and containing suggestions on how to respond, to Thomas Whately, an assistant to Prime Minister George Grenville.Whately died in 1772, and his papers were turned over to his brother William.