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8 Thomas Gage, Correspondence, in Force, American Archives, vol. 1, p. 374.
9 Josiah Quincy Sr. to Josiah Quincy Jr., October 4, 1774, Memoir of the Life of Josiah Quincy, p. 160.
10 Josiah Quincy, quoted in American History Told by Contemporaries, vol. 2 (New York: Macmillan, 1910), p. 400.
11 Josiah Quincy Jr. to John Dickinson, August 20, 1774, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
12 John Adams to Josiah Quincy Jr., September 18, 1774, Adams Papers, MHS.
13 Robert Treat Paine Diary, September 6, 1774, Robert Treat Paine Papers, MHS.
14 John Adams to Abigail Adams, September 18, 1774, Adams Papers, MHS.
15 John Adams to Abigail Adams, September 8, 1774, Adams Papers, MHS.
16 Abigail Adams to John Adams, September 2, 1774, Adams Papers, MHS.
17 Ibid.
18 Philbrick, Bunker Hill, p. 78, citing Letters of John Andrews, pp. 355–374.
19 John Adams to Abigail Adams, October 7, 1774, Adams Papers, MHS.
20 Abigail Adams to John Adams, ibid.
21 Ibid.
22 Abigail Adams to John Adams, October 16, 1774, and September 2, 1774, Adams Papers, MHS.
23 John Adams to Abigail Adams, September 8, 1774, Adams Papers, MHS.
24 Diary of John Adams, vol. 2, September 7, 1774, Adams Papers, MHS.
25 John Adams to Abigail Adams, September 8, 1774, Adams Papers, MHS.
26 John Adams to Abigail Adams, September 18, 1774, Adams Papers, MHS.
27 Ibid., September 14, 1774, Adams Papers, MHS.
28 John Adams to Abigail Adams, September 18, 1774, Adams Papers, MHS.
Chapter 23: In the Cause of Liberty
1 Adams, The Works of John Adams, vol. 2, p. 325.
2 Edmund Quincy IV to Katy Quincy, September 1774, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
3 Ibid.
4 Samuel Quincy to Hannah Hill Quincy, June 21, 1780, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
5 Abigail Adams to John Adams, September 16, 1774, Adams Papers, MHS.
6 Richard Frothingham, Life and Times of Joseph Warren (Boston: Little, Brown, 1865), p. 529, citing Essex Gazette, September 20, 1774.
7 Diary of John Adams, vol. 2, September 17, 1774, Adams Papers, MHS.
8 Allan, John Hancock: Patriot, p. 165.
9 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 21 (Boston: 1867), p. 60.
10 Allan, John Hancock: Patriot, p. 168, citing The British in Boston: Being the Diary of John Barker, edited by E. E. Dana (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1924), pp. 25–26.
11 Diary of John Adams, vol. 2, September 8, 1774, Adams Papers, MHS.
12 Ibid., October 24, 1774; October 10, 1774, Adams Papers, MHS.
13 Ibid., October 24, 1774, Adams Papers, MHS.
14 John Quincy Adams to John Adams, October 13, 1774, Adams Papers, MHS.
15 John Adams, “The Bill of Rights; A List of Grievances, October 14, 1774,” Adams Papers, MHS.
16 Abigail Adams to John Adams, September 22, 1774, Adams Papers, MHS.
17 Diary of John Adams, vol. 2, October 20, 1774, Adams Papers, MHS.
18 John Dickinson, The Political Writings of John Dickinson, Esq., vol. 2 (Wilmington: Bonsal and Niles, 1801), pp. 51–52.
Chapter 24: On This Island, This England
1 “In Provincial Congress, Cambridge, October 22, 1774,” (Boston: Printed by Edes and Gill, 1774), Collections of MHS.
2 Abigail Adams to John Adams, July 25, 1775, Adams Papers, MHS.
3 Edmund Quincy IV to Katy Quincy, December 21, 1774, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
4 A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston: 1893, Selectmen’s Minutes, 1769–1775, vol. 23 (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1893), p. 238.
5 James Lovell to Josiah Quincy Jr., November 1774, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
6 Ibid., p. 244.
7 Josiah Quincy Jr. to Abigail Phillips Quincy, November 5, 1774, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
8 Ibid.
9 Josiah Quincy Jr., “The London Journal, 1774–1775,” November 9–11, 1774, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
10 Ibid., November 12–15, 1774.
11 Ibid., November 27, 1774.
12 Ferling, Independence, p. 9.
13 Josiah Quincy Jr., “The London Journal,” November 19, 1774, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
14 Ibid., November 18, 1774.
15 Ibid., November 20, 1774; Josiah Quincy Jr. to Abigail Phillips Quincy, November 24, 1774; Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
16 Josiah Quincy Jr. to Abigail Phillips Quincy, November 24, 1774, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
17 Josiah Quincy Jr., “The London Journal,” November 22, 1774; Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
18 Observations on the Act of Parliament Commonly Called the Boston Port-Bill, memoir of Josiah Quincy Jr., p. 247.
19 Thomas Hutchinson, Diary and Letters, p. 301.
20 Josiah Quincy Jr. to Abigail Phillips Quincy, December 7, 1774, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
21 Ibid.
22 Ibid.
23 Josiah Quincy Jr. to Joseph Reed, December 16, 1774, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
24 Josiah Quincy Jr., “The London Journal,” November 18, 1774, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
25 See David Hackett Fischer, Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), p. 823.
26 Josiah Quincy Jr., “The London Journal,” November 29, 1774, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
27 Fischer, Albion’s Seed, p. 823.
28 Josiah Quincy Jr. to Joseph Reed, December 17, 1774, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
29 Josiah Quincy Jr. to Abigail Phillips Quincy, November 24, 1774, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
30 Josiah Quincy Jr. to Abigail Phillips Quincy, 2d letter, December 7, 1774, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
31 Barry Alan Shain, ed., The Declaration of Independence in Historical Context (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014), p. 283.
32 Josiah Quincy Jr., “The London Journal,” November 29, 1774, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
33 Josiah Quincy Jr. to Abigail Phillips Quincy, December 14, 1774, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
34 Josiah Quincy Jr. to Joseph Reed, December 17, 1774, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
35 Horace Walpole to Henry Seymour Conway, December 15, 1774, quoted in Philip McFarland, The Brave Bostonians, p. 137.
36 The Political Writings of John Dickinson, vol. 2 (Wilmington: Bonsal and Niles, 1801), p. 52.
Chapter 25: Sharpening Quills and Swords
1 Massachusetts Gazette and the Boston Post-Boy and Advertiser, December 5, 1774, cited in Walter R. Borneman, American Spring (New York: Little, Brown, 2014), p. 62.
2 John Adams, Novanglus and Massachusettensis: Political Essays (Boston: Hew & Goss, 1819), p. vi.
3 John Adams to William Tudor, November 16, 1816, Adams Papers, MHS.
4 John Adams as Novanglus, “To the Inhabitants of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay,” March 13, 1775, Adams Papers, MHS.
5 Josiah Quincy Sr. to Josiah Quincy Jr., October 26, 1774, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
6 Joseph Warren to Josiah Quincy Jr., November 21, 1774, Memoir of the Life of Josiah Quincy, p. 179.
7 Josiah Quincy Jr. to Josiah Quincy Sr., January 22, 1775, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
8 Josiah Quincy Jr. to Abigail Phillips Quincy, December 7, 1774, Quincy Family Papers, MHS; see also James Henry Stark, The Loyalists and the Other Side of the American Revolution (Bos
ton: James H. Stark, 1910), p. 367.
9 Josiah Quincy Jr., Notes on Parliamentary Speeches, Memoir of the Life of Josiah Quincy, p. 276.
10 Josiah Quincy Jr. to Abigail Phillips Quincy, January 11, 1774, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
11 Josiah Quincy Jr. to Abigail Phillips Quincy, January 7, 1774, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
12 Josiah Quincy Jr. to Abigail Phillips Quincy, January 11, 1774, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
13 Josiah Quincy Jr., “The London Journal,” January 23, 1775, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
14 Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, February 3, 1775, Adams Papers, MHS.
15 Wednesday, February 15, 1775, Minutes of the Provincial Congress, Robert Treat Paine Papers, vol. 3, MHS.
16 Rowe, Letters and Diary, January 21, 1775, p. 289.
17 Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, January 25, 1775, Adams Papers, MHS.
18 Ibid.
19 Ibid.
20 James Lovell to Josiah Quincy Jr., Fall 1774, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
21 Benjamin Franklin to James Bowdoin, February 25, 1775, quoted in Edmund Quincy, Life of Josiah Quincy of Massachusetts (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867), p. 11.
22 Josiah Quincy Jr., “The London Journal,” January 27, 1775; Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
23 Ibid., February 26, 1775.
24 Ibid.
25 Thomas Hutchinson, Diaries and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, vol. 1, ed. Peter Orlando Hutchinson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884), pp. 528–529; cited in Forman, Dr. Joseph Warren, p. 228.
26 “An oration delivered March the 6th, 1775: At the request of the inhabitants of the town of Boston, to commemorate the bloody tragedy, of the fifth of March, 1770 / By Dr. Joseph Warren,” Collections of the MHS.
27 Ibid.
28 See William Wells, The Life and Public Service of Samuel Adams (Boston: Little, Brown, 1865), pp. 309–310.
29 Ibid.
30 Ibid.
31 Ibid.
32 Edmund Quincy to Katy Quincy, April 5, 1775, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
Chapter 26: Ship in a Storm
1 Letters of William Lee, ed. C. Ford Worthington (New York: 1891), p. 138.
2 Josiah Quincy Jr. to Thomas Bromfield, March 17, 1775, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
3 Ibid.
4 Josiah Quincy Jr., “The London Journal,” March 1, 1775, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
5 John Adams to James Warren, March 15, 1775, Adams Papers, MHS.
6 Ibid.
7 Massachusetts Spy, April 6, 1775, quoted in Borneman, American Spring, p. 100.
8 Josiah Quincy Sr. to Benjamin Franklin, March 25, 1775, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
9 Allan, John Hancock: Patriot, p. 170.
10 Ibid.
11 The Journals of Each Provincial Congress of Massachusetts in 1774 and 1775 (Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1838), p. 12.
12 John Hancock to Dorothy Quincy, March 25, 1775, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
13 John Andrews to William Barrell, March 1775, Proceedings of Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. 8 (1866), p. 401.
14 Ibid.
15 John Hancock to Edmund Quincy IV, April 7, 1775, Houghton Library, Harvard; quoted in Unger, John Hancock: Merchant King, p. 190.
16 Helena Bayard to Dorothy Quincy, April 14, 1775, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
17 See Borneman, American Spring, pp. 115–116.
18 The Journals of Each Provincial Congress of Massachusetts in 1774 and 1775, p. 12.
19 Elias Phinney, History of the Battle at Lexington, on the Morning of the 19th of April, 1775 (Boston: Phelps and Farnham, 1825), p. 16.
20 Ibid., p. 17.
Chapter 27: Lexington and Concord
1 Allan, John Hancock: Patriot, p. 181, citing W. H. Sumner, “Reminiscences,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 8 (1854), p. 187.
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 Allan, John Hancock: Patriot, p. 179, citing Deposition of William Munroe, March 7, 1825, in E. Phinney, History of the Battle of Lexington, pp. 33–34.
5 Ibid.
6 Allan, John Hancock: Patriot, p. 181, citing Elizabeth Clark to Lucy W. Allen, April 19, 1841, in Lexington Historical Society Proceedings 4 (1912): p. 91.
7 Frank Warren Coburn, Battle of April 19, 1775 in Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Arlington, Cambridge, Somerville, and Charlestown, Massachusetts (Lexington, MA: F. W. Coburn, 1912), p. 63.
8 Allan, John Hancock: Patriot, p. 181, citing Sumner, “Reminiscences,” p. 187
9 John E. Rexine, “The 350th Anniversary of the Boston Latin School,” Classical Journal 82, no. 3 (Feb.–Mar., 1987): p. 238.
10 Edmund Quincy, Life of Josiah Quincy, p. 21.
11 Benedict Arnold sold the home after his father’s death and now lived in New Haven, where he served as a captain in the Connecticut Colony Militia.
12 Lord Percy to General Harvey, April 20, 1775, quoted in Allen French, The Day of Concord and Lexington: The Nineteenth of April 1775 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1925), pp. 270–272.
13 Edmund Quincy IV to Edmund Quincy V, May 19, 1775, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
14 Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, May 2, 1775, Adams Papers, MHS.
15 A Narrative, of the Excursion and Ravages of the King’s Troops Under the Command of General Gage, on the Nineteenth of April, 1775, Collections of the MHS.
16 Ibid.
17 Thomas Hutchinson, Diary and Letters, vol. 1, p. 466.
18 Ellen C. D. Q. Woodbury, Dorothy Quincy: Wife of John Hancock (New York: Neale Publishing, 1905), p. 69.
19 Sumner, “Reminiscences,” p. 188.
20 John Hancock to the Gentlemen Committee of Safety, April 24, 1775, quoted in Abram English Brown, John Hancock: His Book (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1898), pp. 196–197.
21 John Adams, Diary and Autobiography, vol. 3, p. 314.
22 Ibid.
23 Ibid.
24 Abigail Adams to John Adams, June 16, 1775, Adams Papers, MHS.
25 Josiah Quincy Jr., “The London Journal,” At Sea April the 21st 1775, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
26 Ibid.
27 Ibid.
Chapter 28: Clouds over Boston
1 John Adams to Abigail Adams, April 30, 1775, Adams Papers, MHS.
2 Abigail Adams to John Adams, May 4, 1775, Adams Papers, MHS.
3 Mercy Otis Warren to Hannah Quincy Lincoln, June 3, 1775, quoted in full in E. F. Ellet, “Women of the Revolution: Mrs. Lincoln,” Godey’s Lady’s Book, vol. 42, May 1851, p. 293.
4 Ibid.
5 William Lee to Josiah Quincy Jr., April 3, 1775, Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. 50 (Boston: MHS, 1917) p. 493.
6 Edmund Quincy IV to Henry Quincy, May 11, 1775, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
7 John Hancock to Dorothy Quincy, May 7, 1775, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
8 John Adams to Abigail Adams, May 8, 1775, Adams Papers, MHS.
9 Ibid.
10 John Hancock to Dorothy Quincy, May 7, 1775, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
11 John Adams to Abigail Adams, letters dated May 29, June 2, June 10, June 23, 1775, Quincy Family Papers, MHS.
12 John Adams to Abigail Adams, June 10, 1775, Adams Papers, MHS.
13 John Adams to Abigail Adams, July 17, 1775, and May 29, 1775, Adams Papers, MHS.