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American Rebels

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by Nina Sankovitch

Dalrymple, Colonel

  Dames School

  Dartmouth, Lord

  Dartmouth (vessel)

  Davenport, James

  Deane, Silas

  de Berdt, Dennys

  Declaration of Grievances

  Declaration of Independence

  antislavery provisions

  copies of the

  debate over

  drafting of

  plan for

  read aloud in Massachusetts

  signing of

  support for

  vote on

  Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms

  Delaware

  Dickinson, John

  against independence

  Dickinson, Philemon

  Divine providence

  Dorchester, Mass.

  Dorchester Heights

  Duane, James

  duties on imported goods

  dysentery

  East India Company

  economic depression

  Edenton, N.C.

  Edes, Benjamin

  Edes, Peter

  Edes and Gill

  Edwards, Jonathan

  effigies, set afire

  Eleanor (vessel)

  elite class

  England/English. See Britain/British

  English language

  Enlightenment

  enlistment, terms of

  Essex Gazette

  Exeter, New Hampshire

  Factory Hall (Liberty Assembly Hall) Boston

  Falcon (British warship)

  Falmouth, bombardment of

  Faneuil, Benjamin

  Faneuil Hall, Boston

  fashion

  Field, Joseph

  firearms

  fires in Boston, Hancock’s generosity to victims of

  fireworks

  Fitcher (a fellow named)

  flag, American, with thirteen stripes

  Flucker, Thomas

  flyers

  Flynt, Dorothy (m. Quincy)

  Flynt, Henry

  Fort Chambly

  Fort Ticonderoga

  artillery captured at

  Fothergill, Dr. John

  France

  support for America

  Franklin, Ben

  later life

  Franklin, William

  freedom of the press

  freedom suits

  Freeman, Isaac

  French and Indian War

  furnishings, imported

  Gage, General Thomas

  collaborators with

  orders to

  recalled

  troops of

  Garrick, David

  Gay, Ebenezer

  George III

  ascension to throne

  denounced in Declaration of Independence

  petitions to

  prejudiced against the colonists

  rejects petition

  speech of November 1774

  speech of October 1775

  Georgia

  German immigrants

  German mercenaries

  Gerrish, Samuel

  Gerry, Elbridge

  Gill, John

  girls, education of

  Golden Hill

  Goldfinch, John

  Gorham, Maine

  government, system of

  governmental power, arbitrary

  governors of states, elected

  Grape Island

  Gray, Harrison

  Gray, Samuel

  Great Awakening (New Lights) ministry

  Green Dragon Tavern

  Greenleaf, John Hancock

  Greenleaf, Joseph

  Greenleaf, Stephen

  Greenleaf, William

  Grenville, George

  Gridley, Benjamin

  Griffin’s Wharf

  Griffiths, Dorcas

  gunpowder

  raid

  recipe for

  seizure of

  stockpile of

  guns

  Guy Fawkes Day

  Haley (ship)

  Hall, Dr. Lyman

  Hallowell, Benjamin

  Hancock, Ebenezer

  Hancock, John (b. 1737, son of Rev. John Hancock)

  admiring crowds upon his return from Philadelphia

  adopted by uncle Thomas

  arrest and prosecution for smuggling

  babies named after

  background of

  benefactor of Boston

  business of

  captain of the Cadet Corps for Boston

  clashes with Gov. Gage

  death threats to

  and Declaration of Independence

  delegate to Congress

  dinner parties

  early life and position

  education

  eludes capture after Battle of Lexington

  enemies of

  in England as young man to acquire polish and meet trade agents

  family life

  fearful of the mob

  feast celebrating departure of Gov. Bernard

  fleet of

  gives alarm that British are marching

  greets Gov. Gage

  at Harvard

  health

  help in war supplies

  honors to

  horrified by violence of mobs

  Indian name given to

  inherits from Thomas Hancock

  leads Congress

  leads Provincial Congress

  letters

  letters from, intercepted and printed in Tory newspapers

  the Liberty case

  mansion on Beacon Hill

  military preparations

  move to Boston

  opposes Hutchinson

  order to be arrested

  pamphleting of

  penmanship

  in Philadelphia

  political career

  portrait of

  protests Hutchinson

  shipping fleet

  signature of

  signing the Declaration of Independence

  speeches of

  stays in Boston, uneasily

  style

  talk with friends about politics

  and Tea Party

  threatened with condign punishment

  travel to Congress in Philadelphia

  volunteers to join Washington’s army

  at Warren’s oration

  at war’s end

  wealth of

  wedding with Dolly

  woos Dolly

  work of, in Congress

  works against the Stamp Act

  works against Townsend Acts

  works on nonimportation

  later life

  Hancock, Bishop John

  Hancock, Rev. John (b. 1702)

  death and funeral of

  sermons of

  Hancock, John George Washington

  Hancock, Lydia (d. Hancock)

  Hancock, Lydia (m. Hancock). See Henchman, Lydia

  Hancock, Mary

  Hancock, Thomas

  books of

  death of

  early career

  tutelage of John Hancock

  Hancock family

  motto

  Hancock’s Wharf, Boston

  Harmony (vessel)

  Harnett, Cornelius

  Harrison, Benjamin (Virginia delegate)

  Harrison (ships)

  Harvard college

  changes to

  entrance exams

  ministers trained by

  Harvard Law School

  Hawke, Mary (m. Hancock)

  Hayley (ship)

  Henchman, Daniel

  Henchman, Lydia (m. Hancock)

  death of

  Henry, Patrick

  High Treason and Misdemeanors

  Hill, Amelia

  Hill, Anna

  Hill, Hannah (m. Quincy)

  later life

  Hill, Henry

  la
ter life

  Hill, Thomas

  Hillsborough, Lord

  Holyoke, Edward

  Hooper, William

  housebreaking by mobs

  House of Hancock

  Howe, Lord Richard

  Howe, Lord William

  Hutchinson, Anne

  Hutchinson, Edward

  Hutchinson, Elisha

  Hutchinson, Sarah

  Hutchinson, Susanna

  Hutchinson, Thomas

  as chief justice

  house of, attacked and ruined

  mob threats

  packet of letters scandal

  speech in court about the Stamp Act

  speech on right of Parliament

  Hutchinson, Thomas Jr.

  Hutchinson, William

  Hutchinson family

  immigrants

  impeachment

  import duties

  impressment

  Inches, Henderson

  Inches, Sally

  indentured servants

  independence from England

  cause of

  declaration of

  delegates in favor of

  desired

  idea of

  middle and southern colonies support for

  necessity for not a goal of some

  use of term

  wish for, denied

  Indians

  at Continental Congress

  influenza

  inns

  Intolerable Acts

  Iroquois Confederacy

  Jackson, Edward

  James II

  Jefferson, Thomas

  Jeffries, John

  Jesus Maria and Joseph (a Spanish galleon)

  judges

  bribes of

  salaries of

  jurors, refusal to serve as

  Justinian, Emperor

  Kilroy, Mathew

  king

  allegiance to

  loyalty to

  name not mentioned in Thanksgiving Proclamation

  petitions to

  King George’s War

  Kirk, Thomas

  Kittery, Connecticut

  Knox, Henry

  law

  favoring white men

  rule of

  Law Commonplace books

  Leavitt, Elisha

  Lechmere, Richard

  Lee, Arthur

  Lee, Charles

  Lee, Richard Henry

  Resolution for Independence

  Lee, William

  Lee (schooner)

  legal maxims

  Leonard, Daniel

  “Let every man do what is right in his own eyes” (Hancock)

  “Letters of a Farmer”

  Leverett, John

  Lexington, Mass.

  liberty

  “once lost is lost forever”

  Liberty (ship)

  liberty poles

  Liberty Trees

  lighthouses, setting fire to

  Lillie, Theophilius

  Lincoln, Bela

  death of

  Lincoln, Mass.

  Lively (British navy ship)

  Livingston, Robert

  Lloyd, Dr. James

  Lloyd, Rebecca

  local produce and manufactures

  Locke, John

  London

  American exiles in

  differences from Boston

  Long Room Club

  Lovell, James

  Lovell, John

  Lowell, Elizabeth

  Lowell, John

  Loyalists

  bribes to

  departures of

  ex-friends of Adams

  protected by governor

  shunned or threatened

  taking refuge in Boston

  Loyall Nine

  loyalty

  Lydia (ship)

  Lynch, Thomas

  Mackintosh, Ebenezer

  Magna Carta

  mail, screening and interception of

  mandamus councilors

  Marblehead, Mass.

  marches of protest

  Mare-Mont (Merrymount)

  Marlborough, Mass.

  Marsh, Anne (m. Quincy)

  Marsh, Joseph

  Marshall, James

  Maryland

  Masons

  Massachusettensis (anonymous Tory)

  Massachusetts

  Charter

  chief justice

  control of by Parliament

  delegation to Continental Congress

  General Court

  House of Representatives

  nonimportation in

  resistance to Gage’s control

  Supreme (Superior) Court

  vote for independence

  See also Provincial Congress of Massachusetts

  Massachusetts Bay Colony

  Massachusetts Gazette

  Massachusetts Spy

  massacres. See also Boston Massacre

  Maverick, Samuel

  Mayhew, Jonathan

  McKean, Thomas

  merchants, trading British goods

  militias

  minutemen

  mobs

  prohibition of

  Mohawk Indians

  patriots dressed as

  Molasses Act of 1733

  Molineux, William

  Montgomery, Hugh

  Montgomery, Richard

  Moravians

  Morris, Corbyn

  Morris, Robert

  Morton, John

  Morton, Thomas

  Mount Wollaston

  mansion on

  Quincy mansion on

  Munroe, William

  Murray, John, Earl of Dunmore

  Nancy (British brig)

  Native Americans. See Indians

  Nautilus (British warship)

  negroes. See blacks

  New England

  militia

  radicals of

  trade of

  New England Club (in London)

  New Hampshire

  New Jersey

  New Lights preachers

  newspapers

  Newton, Isaac

  New York city

  New York colony

  Ninety-two, the Glorious

  nonimportation

  agreements

  nonviolent protests

  North, Frederick Lord

  North, the (colonies)

  North Carolina

  North Meeting Church, Boston

  North Parish Church, Braintree

  Norton, Elizabeth (m. Quincy)

  Novangelus

  Old North Church, Boston

  Old Ship Church, Hingham

  Old South Meeting House, Boston

  Olive Branch Petition

  rejected

  Oliver, Andrew

  effigy of

  funeral

  Oliver, Peter

  impeachment of

  “One if by land, two if by sea”

  original sin

  Otis, James Jr.

  Otis, Mercy (m. Warren)

  Paine, Robert Treat

  Paine, Thomas

  Common Sense

  paintings. See portrait paintings

  Palfrey, William

  pamphleteers

  Parliament

  Acts of

  bill on Crown salaries and British constitution

  colonists not represented in

  control of Massachusetts colony

  corruption of

  friends of America in

  Intolerable Acts passed by

  loyalty to

  opening of, by king

  petitions to

  power and right of

  repeals the Stamp Act

  taxation by

  writs of assistance granted by

  Passonagessit (hill)

  patriotic fervor

  Patty (servant)

  Penn, Richard

  Pennsylvania
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  Percy, Lord

  Perkins, Daniel

  personal responsibility

  pewter

  Philadelphia

  map

  State House

  Phillips, Abigail (m. Quincy)

  later life

  Phillips, Hannah

  Phillips, Mary

  Phillips, William

  Phillips, William Jr.

  Pilgrims

  Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth

  Pitcairn, John

  Pitt, William

  playhouses

  Plowden, Sir Edmund

  Polly (British ship)

  Poor, Salem

  Port, Miss Jane

  Porter, Rev. John

  portrait paintings

  Powder Alarm

  Pratt, Benjamin

  Pratt, Charles

  Presbyterians

  Preston, Thomas

  trial of

  Price, Richard

  Priestley, Joseph

  private buildings, requisition of

  privateering

  private judgment, right of

  property, sanctity of

  protest marches

  Provincial Congress of Massachusetts

  public works

  Puritans

  Putnam, James

  Putnam, Rufus

  Quakers

  Quebec City

  Quebec province

  Quero (ship)

  Quincy, Abigail (d. Josiah Quincy Jr.)

  death of

  Quincy, Abigail (m. Josiah Quincy Jr.). See Phillips, Abigail

  Quincy, Abraham

  Quincy, Daniel

  Quincy, Dorothy (Dolly) (m. Hancock)

  style of

  wedding of

  Quincy, Edmund (Ned)

  died in a shipwreck

  at Harvard

  and religious scandal

  Quincy, Edmund I

  Quincy, Edmund II

  Quincy, Edmund III

  death and funeral of

  Quincy, Edmund IV

  Braintree home

  business of

  Spanish bounty riches

  later life

  Quincy, Edmund V

  Quincy, Edward

  Quincy, Elizabeth (d. Josiah Quincy and Elizabeth Waldron)

  Quincy, Elizabeth (m. Sewell)

  Quincy, Elizabeth (m. Smith)

  Quincy, Esther (m. Sewall)

  later life

  Quincy, Frances

  Quincy, Hannah (d. Samuel Quincy and Hannah Hill)

  Quincy, Hannah (m. Lincoln)

  later life

  Quincy, Henry

  Quincy, Colonel John

  and religious scandal

  Quincy, Josiah

  business of

  health

  journal of

  new house of

  political writings of

  and religious scandal

  Spanish bounty riches

  later life

  Quincy, Josiah III

  later life

  Quincy, Josiah Jr.

  body of

  charm of

  childhood

  courtroom manner

  death of

  health

  in England to plead colonists’ cause

  last will and testament

  legal practice

  on list of men to be apprehended

  return to America

  trip to the South

  wedding of

  writings of

  Quincy, Judith

  Quincy, Katy

  Quincy, Nancy

  Quincy, Norton

  Quincy, Quincy, and Jackson (company)

 

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