Read the excerpt from the Boston non-importation agreement, which appears here. What is the purpose of this promise? to declare independence from Great Britain to force Parliament to repeal the Townshend Acts to extend the Townshend Acts until at least 1769 We will not, from and after the 1st of January 1769, import into this province any tea, paper, glass, or painters colours, until the act imposing duties on those articles shall be repealed. — Boston Non-Importation Agreement 1768