Date: April 19, 1764 Author: William Cooper “The following Advertisement was sent the several Printers, for a place in their Papers — viz’. The Time for the permission of Inoculation in this Town by a Vote of the Inhabitants at a General Town Meeting being limitted to the 20′. of April ends to Morrow, therefore […]
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Date: circa 1750 – 1755 “Wine will make us Red as Roses & our sorrows Quite forgett come let us Fudell all our Noses and Drink our Selves Til out of Debt” Source: Flyleaf inscription and signature in Massachusetts Historical Society’s copy of: Bailey, N[athan]. English and Latine Exercises for School-Boys, Fifth edition, Boston: T. […]
Author: Graph Iatroos, a pseudonym Date: February 1765 “Sir There has been [for] some time on foot a proposal [for] forming medical Societies or Associations of Doctors analogous to those of the Clergy for the more speedy Improvement of our young Physicians; as by communicating to each other any Discoveries in any of the Branches […]
Date: March 5, 1772 “May we ever be a people favoured of GOD. May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise in the whole earth.” “In young and new formed communities…the motives which urged to the social compact, cannot be at […]
Date: June 15, 1774 “If the timidity of some and the treachery of others in this town do not ruin us, I think we shall be saved. I fear New York will not assist us with a very good grace; but she may perhaps be ashamed to desert us: at least, if her MERCHANTS offer […]
Date: March 6, 1775 ”The tools of power, in every age, have racked their inventions to justify the few in sporting with the happiness of the many; and, having found their sophistry too weak to hold mankind in bondage, have impiously dared to force religion, the daughter of the king of heaven, to become a […]
Date: August 15, 1774 “[T]he present American representation is a shadow, and not a substance; and I am certain, that, unless it is put upon a better footing, the people themselves will, in a few years, readily consent to throw off the useless burthen.” Source: Letter to Samuel Adams
Author: B.W., a pseudonym Date: October 7, 1765 “Time is not I trust yet come that Indolence has so enervated your Powers, that you will neither bestir yourselves to promote its [Liberty’s] Interests, nor make a stand, when oppression, like Poverty, invades as an armed Man…” “Not to feel for public Calamities – to be […]
Date: November 11, 1774 “It is the united voice of America to preserve their freedom, or lose their lives in defence of it. Their resolutions are not the effect of inconsiderate rashness, but the sound result of sober inquiry and deliberation. I am convinced, that the true spirit of liberty was never so universally diffused […]
Date: September 9, 1774 “That it is an indispensable duty which we owe to God, our country, ourselves, and posterity, by all lawful ways and means in our power, to maintain, defend, and preserve those civil and religious rights and liberties for which many of our fathers fought, bled, and died, and to hand them […]
