1 Boston Gazette, May 12, 1768, MHS.
2 Journal of the House of Representatives, June 27, 1769, MHS.
3 Bowen, John Adams and the American Revolution, p. 324.
4 Boston Gazette, August 7, 1769, MHS.
5 Diary of John Adams, Monday, August 14, 1774, Adams Papers, MHS.
6 Ibid.
7 Diary of John Adams, August 14, 1769, Adams Papers, MHS.
8 Ira Stoll, Samuel Adams: A Life (New York: Free Press, 2008), p. 76.
9 John Dickinson, The Liberty Song, Boston Chronicle, August 29–Sep. 5, 1768, Dickinson College Archives.
10 Diary of John Adams, August 14, 1769, Adams Papers, MHS.
11 John Hancock to Barnard & Harrison, February 7, 1765, Hancock Papers, MHS.
12 New York Journal, January 18, 1770, cited and quoted in Arthur Meier Schlesinger, The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution, 1763–1776 (Washington, DC: Beard Books, 1939), p. 168.
13 Adams, The Works of John Adams, vol. 2, p. 226.
14 Ibid.
15 John Adams to Abigail Adams, Adams Family Correspondence, June 29, 1769, MHS.
16 Bowen, John Adams and the American Revolution, p. 330.
17 Adams, The Works of John Adams, vol. 3, p. 506.
18 See The Chronicle of Henry of Huntingdon (London: H. G. Bohn, 1853), p. 148, 212.
19 Quincy, Memoir of the Life of Josiah Quincy, p. 21.
20 Josiah Quincy Jr. to Josiah Quincy Sr., December 1768, excerpted in Memoir of the Life of Josiah Quincy, p. 20.
21 Ibid., p. 20.
22 Coquillette and York, Portrait of a Patriot, vol. 1, p. 100.
23 A Pride of Quincys, A Massachusetts Historical Society Picture Book, Boston, 1969, in holdings of the MHS.
24 Edmund Quincy to Dorothy Quincy, undated letter, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
Chapter 12: Pressing Forward
1 Boston Gazette, January 30, 1770, MHS.
2 Boston Gazette, February 12, 1770, MHS; see also Quincy, Memoir of the Life of Josiah Quincy, p. 23.
3 Boston Gazette, February 12, 1770, MHS.
4 Hiller B. Zobel, The Boston Massacre (New York: Norton, 1970), p. 172.
5 Edmund Quincy Commonplace Book, p. 34, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
6 See Nina Sankovitch, The Lowells of Massachusetts: An American Family (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2017), p. 147.
7 Boston Gazette, February 5, 1770, MHS.
8 Triber, A True Republican, p. 73, citing “Journal of Transactions in Boston, January 18, 1770.”
9 George Mason to unknown recipient, January 24, 1770, Narrative of Proceedings at Boston, February 7 to March 14, 1770, cited in Peter Shaw, American Patriots and Ritual of Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981) pp. 160–161.
10 Ibid.
11 Triber, A True Republican, p. 73.
12 Diary of John Adams, February 26, 1770, Adams Papers, MHS.
13 Thomas Hutchinson to Samuel Hood, February 23, 1770, quoted and cited in Zobel, The Boston Massacre, p. 173.
14 Ibid., p. 174.
15 Coquillette and York, Portrait of a Patriot, vol. 1, p. 24.
16 L. Kinvin Wroth and Hiller B. Zobel, Legal Papers of John Adams, vol. 3 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1965), p. 266.
17 Rowe, Letters and Diary, p. 197.
18 Thomas Hutchinson to Lord Hillsborough, February 28, 1770, cited and quoted in Zobel, The Boston Massacre, p. 178.
19 Ibid.
20 Diary of John Adams, February 26, 1770, Adams Papers, MHS.
Chapter 13: Mayhem and Massacre
1 Two weeks earlier, Henderson had married Sally Jackson, previously courted by John Hancock.
2 Adams, Diary and Autobiography, vol. 3, p. 291. 12 of 53, pp. 1768–1770.
3 Ibid.
4 “The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street, Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regiment,” Engraving by Paul Revere, Boston 1770, MHS; “A Fair Account of the Late Unhappy Disturbance at Boston in New England,” London, printed for B. White, 1770, MHS.
5 Zobel, The Boston Massacre, pp. 186–187.
6 Ibid., p. 197.
7 Ibid., p. 198.
8 Ibid., p. 202.
9 Unger, John Hancock: Merchant King, p. 145, citing New York Public Advertiser, April 28, 1770, New York Public Library.
10 Bernard Bailyn, The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (Cambridge, MA; Harvard University Press, 1974), p. 161.
11 Boston Gazette, March 12, 1770, MHS.
12 Josiah Quincy Jr. to Josiah Quincy, March 26, 1770, Memoir of the Life of Josiah Quincy, p. 28.
13 Ibid., p. 27–28.
14 Thomas Preston to William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, March 17, 1770, quoted in Coquillette and York, Portrait of a Patriot, vol. 1, p. 22.
15 “A Fair Account of the Late Unhappy Disturbance at Boston in New England,” London, printed for B. White, 1770, p. 9, MHS.
16 Coquillette and York, Portrait of a Patriot, vol. 2, p. 19, extracting in its entirety Josiah Quincy’s Commonplace Law Book, dated 1770, p. 69.
17 Quincy, Memoir of the Life of Josiah Quincy, p. 32.
18 Josiah Quincy to Josiah Quincy Jr., March 22, 1770, Memoir of the Life of Josiah Quincy, p. 26.
19 Ibid., p. 27.
20 Ibid.
21 Ibid., p. 28.
22 Adams, Diary and Autobiography, vol. 3, p. 294.
23 Report of the Record Commissioners, Boston Town Records, 1770–1777 (Boston: Rockwell & Churchill, 1887), pp. 31–32.
24 Ibid., pp. 26, 31–32.
25 Thomas Hutchinson to Lord Hillsborough, May 21, 1770, cited and quoted in Zobel, The Boston Massacre, p. 228.
26 Quincy, Memoir of the Life of Josiah Quincy, p. 50.
27 Boston Gazette, March 12, 1770, MHS.
Chapter 14: On Trial
1 Diary of John Adams, June 27, 1770, Adams Papers, MHS.
2 Ibid.
3 Diary of John Adams, June 26, 1770, Adams Papers, MHS.
4 Adams, Diary and Autobiography, vol. 3, p. 294.
5 Ibid.
6 Marcia G. Synott and Laurel Sharp, “Women in the Quincy Homestead” (Boston: The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1998), p. 11.
7 Edmund Quincy IV to Katy Quincy, July 31, 1771, Quincy Papers, MHS.
8 Zobel, The Boston Massacre, p. 242.
9 Adams, The Works of John Adams, vol. 10, p. 201.
10 Broadside titled “On The Trial of the Inhuman Murderers, of the 5th of March 1770,” published October 1770, MHS.
11 Zobel, The Boston Massacre, p. 259.
12 Ibid.
13 American History told by Contemporaries, p. 400.
14 Quincy, Memoir of the Life of Josiah Quincy, p. 29, 1n.
15 Diary of John Adams, vol. 2, March 5, 1773, Adams Papers, MHS.
16 Quincy, Memoir of the Life of Josiah Quincy, p. 31.
17 Ibid., p. 226, 1n.
18 Ibid., p. 32.
19 Ibid., p. 38.
20 Ibid., p. 39.
21 Ibid., pp. 40–41.
22 Clifford K. Shipton, Sibley’s Harvard Graduates, vol. 15 (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1970), p. 482.
23 Legal Papers of John Adams, vol. 3, “Adams’ Argument for the Defense, 3–4 December 1770,” Adams Papers, MHS.
24 Quincy, Memoir of the Life of Josiah Quincy, p. 48, (mis)
quoting from The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare.
25 Ibid.
26 Ibid., p. 290.
27 Ibid., p. 291.
28 Ibid., pp. 292–293.
29 Ibid., p. 293.
30 Boston Gazette, December 17, 1770, MHS, and quoted in Zobel, The Boston Massacre, p. 294.
31 Diary of John Adams, vol. 2, March 5, 1773, Adams Papers, MHS.
32 John Adams to John Lowell, December 15, 1770, Adams Papers, MHS.
33 Samuel Quincy to Robert Treat Paine, December 16, 1770, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
34 Ibid.
35 Josiah Quincy Jr. as “Marchmont Nedham,” in the Boston Gazette, December 27, 1773, MHS.
36 Coquillette and York, Portrait of a Patriot, vol. 1, p. 22.
37 See Thomas Hutchinson, The Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of His Late Majesty’s Province of Massachusetts Bay in North America, vol. 1, edited by Peter Orlando Hutchinson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884), p. 81.
Chapter 15: Retreat to Braintree
1 Diary of John Adams, vol. 2, February 14, 1771, Adams Papers, MHS.
2 Coquillette and York, Portrait of a Patriot, vol. 1, p. 22.
3 Josiah Quincy Jr., Political Commonplace Book, p. 192, Quincy Family Papers, MHS; and see Coquillette and York, Portrait of a Patriot, vol. 1, p. 170.
4 Josiah Quincy Jr., Political Commonplace Book, Quincy Family Papers, MHS, p. 44, and Coquillette and York, Portrait of a Patriot, vol. 1, p. 120; see also Quincy, Memoir of the Life of Josiah Quincy, p. 51.
5 Josiah Quincy Jr., quoting Sir John Phillips, January 29, 1744, Political Commonplace Book, Quincy Family Papers, MHS, p. 119; and Coquillette and York, Portrait of a Patriot, vol. 1, p. 146.
6 Boston Gazette, February 11, 1771; see also Quincy, Memoir of the Life of Josiah Quincy, p. 51.
7 Triber, A True Republican, p. 85.
8 Boston Gazette, March 11, 1771, cited and quoted in Triber, A True Republican, p. 85.
9 See Diary of Anna Green Winslow, a Boston School Girl of 1771, ed. Alice M. Earle (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1894), p. 72.
10 John Adams, Diary and Autobiography, vol. 1, p. 74.
11 Massachusetts Spy, February 27, 1772, cited and quoted in Neil L. York, “Tag-Team Polemics: The ‘Centinel’ and His Allies in the ‘Massachusetts Spy,’” Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, ser. 3, vol. 107 (1995), p. 103.
12 Josiah Quincy Jr. as “Hyperion,” Boston Gazette, November 25, 1771, MHS.
13 Josiah Quincy Jr. as “Marchmont Needham,” Boston Gazette, June 6, 1772, MHS.
14 Edmund Quincy III, Letter dated May 11, 1771, recipient unknown, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
15 John Langdon Sibley, Biographical Sketches of Harvard Graduates, vol. 3 (Cambridge, MA: Charles William Sever, 1885), p. 112; quoting Boston Gazette, February 27, 1775.
16 William M. Wiecek, “Somerset: Lord Mansfield and the Legitimacy of Slavery in the Anglo-American World,” University of Chicago Law Review, vol. 42, No. 1 (Autumn, 1974), pp. 86–87.
17 John Adams to Jeremy Belknap, March 21, 1795, Adams Papers, MHS.
18 Ibid.
19 John Adams to Richard Cranch, September 23, 1767, Adams Papers, MHS.
20 Diary of John Adams, vol. 2, May 2, 1771, Adams Papers, MHS.
21 John Adams to Isaac Smith Jr., April 11, 1771, Adams Papers, MHS.
22 Diary of John Adams, vol. 2, April 18, 1771, Adams Papers, MHS.
23 Ibid., May 1, 1771.
24 Abigail Adams to Isaac Smith, April 20, 1771, Adams Papers, MHS.
25 John Adams to Abigail Adams, July 1, 1775, Adams Papers, MHS; and see Diane Jacobs, Dear Abigail (New York: Ballantine Books, 2014), p. 43.
26 Abigail Adams to John Adams, August 14, 1776, Adams Family Papers, MHS.
27 Ibid.
28 Ibid.
29 Edmund Quincy IV to Katherine Quincy, July 31, 1771, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
30 Diary of John Adams, vol. 2, June 13, 1771, Adams Papers, MHS.
31 Ibid.
32 John Adams to James Warren, March 1771, Warren-Adams Letters, MHS.
33 Josiah Quincy Jr. as “Mentor,” Boston Evening-Post, February 11, 1771, MHS.
34 Diary of John Adams, vol. 2, May 2, 1771, Adams Papers, MHS.
35 John Hancock, Oration, March 5, 1774, as excerpted in American Patriotism: Speeches, Letters, and Other Papers which Illustrate the Foundation, the Development, the Preservation of the United States of America, Vol. 1, ed. Selim Hobart Peabody (New York: American Book Exchange, 1880), p. 86.
36 Thomas Hutchinson to Thomas Gage, December 1, 1771, quoted in Allan, John Hancock: Patriot, p. 125.
37 Thomas Hutchinson to Frances Bernard, January 29, 1772, quoted in Allan, John Hancock: Patriot, p. 125.
Chapter 16: Patriots Assemble
1 Thomas Hutchinson to Francis Bernard, January 29, 1772, quoted in Allan, John Hancock: Patriot, p. 126.
2 Sam Adams to Arthur Lee, April 12, 1773, quoted in Allan, John Hancock: Patriot, p. 125.
3 Rebora and Staiti, John Singleton Copley in America, p. 277.
4 A History of the Church in Brattle Street, Boston, by its Pastor Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (Boston: Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1851), p. 101.
5 John Hancock to Ebenezer Hancock, January 11, 1771, quoted in W. T. Baxter, “A Colonial Bankrupt, Ebenezer Hancock, 1741–1819,” Bulletin of the Business Historical Society, vol. 25, No. 2 (June 1951), p. 9.
6 John Adams to Abigail Adams, September 17, 1771, Adams Papers, MHS.
7 Diary of John Adams, vol. 1, February 9, 1772, Adams Papers, MHS.
8 John Adams to Abigail Adams, May Saturday 1772, Adams Papers, MHS.
9 Ibid.
10 John Hancock to George Hayley, August 24, 1768, quoted in Fowler, The Baron of Beacon Hill, p. 91.
11 John Hancock to Hayley & Hopkins, November 14, 1771, quoted in Allan, John Hancock: Patriot, p. 125.
12 Abigail Adams and John Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, January 12, 1767, Adams Papers, MHS.
13 Diary of John Adams, vol. 2, September 22, 1772, Adams Papers, MHS.
14 John C. Shields, Phillis Wheatley and the Romantics (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008), pp. 112–113.
15 Josiah Quincy Jr. as “Marchmont Nedham,” Boston Gazette, 1772, quoted in Specimens of Newspaper Literature, vol. 1, ed. Joseph Tinker Buckingham (Boston: C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1850), p. 188.
16 Ibid.
17 Quincy, Memoir of the Life of Josiah Quincy, pp. 52–53.
18 Ibid.
19 The Votes and Proceedings of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, in Town Meeting Assembled (Boston: Edes and Gill, 1772), p. iii, MHS.
20 “A Letter of Correspondence to the Other Towns, Boston, November 20, 1772,” A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, vol. 18 (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1887), p. 106.
21 The Votes and Proceedings of the Freeholders, p. 2.
22 Ibid., p. 35.
23 The Writings of Samuel Adams, 1770–1773, vol. 2, ed. Harry Alonzo Cushing (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1906), p. 372.
24 Diary of John Adams, vol. 2, November 21, 1772, Adams Papers, MHS.
25 Josiah Quincy Jr., The Southern Journal, p. 184, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
26 Josiah Quincy Jr. to George Clymer, August 1773, extracted in Quincy, Memoir of the Life of Josiah Quincy, p. 119.
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