[Dr. Benjamin Church to Samuel Adams] “Sunday Evening Sept 4th 1774 Dear Sir: Having closed my former letter, Further Intelligence coming to hand I seize a leisure minute to give it [to] you. Mr. Stearns just arrived from Paxtons informs me that the Inhabitants of Springfield, Leicester Paxton Spencer and the Towns adjacent had risen […]
about Warren 1774
by Thomas Young to Samuel Adams “Boston 4th Sepbr 1774 “Dear Sir By the enclosed papers you will perceive the temper of your countrymen in the condition, your every wish, your every sigh, for years past, panted to find it. Thoroughly aroused and unanimously earnest, something very important must, inevitably come of it. That treacherous, […]
Date: July 13, 1774 signatures on document printed early in June 1774 “WE the Subscribers, inhabitants of the town of Attlebrough having taken into our serious consideration the precarious state of the liberties on North-America, and more especially the present distressed condition of this insulted province, embarrassed as it is by several acts of the […]
“TOWN MEETING IN BOSTON. Friday, May 13, 1774. On this day there was a numerous and respectable meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of this town, legally warned and assembled at Faneuil Hall, to consider an edict lately passed by the British Parliament, for shutting up the harbor, and otherwise punishing the inhabitants; and […]
Date: March 5, 1774 “Men, Brethren, Fathers, and Fellow-Countrymen: The attentive gravity; the venerable appearance of this crowded audience; the dignity which I behold in the countenances of so many in this great assembly; the solemnity of the occasion upon which we have met together, joined to a consideration of the part I am to […]
Date: April 18, 1774 Author: [Dr. Bond] [To Dr. John Warren] “Marblehead April ye 18th 1774 Dear Friend It is rather too long since I heard from your Worship; I believe you must appear, propria[?] Persona, so give a History of your late observations as it should be troublesome to make up for all your […]
Date: June 1774 Author: Attributed by a contemporary to Miss Mercy Scollay; Mercy Otis Warren the likely author “Sir, I was lately in a Company, where the conversation turned to the non-consumption agreement, and the vast importance of resolving not to purchase any thing but the necessities of life; in order to defeat the present […]
Date: September 27, 1774 Author: Hannah Fayerweather Winthrop “I have lately recieved great pleasure from an ingenious satire on that Female Foible Love of dress in the Royal American Magazine. I have heard the author guessd to be Miss Mercy Scollay and the Gentleman who requested it, Dr. Warren. I am not enough acquainted with […]
