Date: early 1800s referring to events of January 1773 Author: John Adams “It was I believe in1772 [sic] that Governor Hutchinson, in an elaborate Speech to both Houses of Congress endeavoured to convince them, their Constituents and the World that Parliament was our Sovereign Legislature, and had a Right to make Laws for Us in […]
Dr. Benjamin Church
Date: January 29, 1773 Authors: Attributed to Samuel Adams, Joseph Warren, and/or Benjamin Church, Jr. [Modern installment IV] “Thus we have endeavored to shew the Sense of the People of this Colony under both Charters; and if there have been in any late Instances a Submission to Acts of Parliament, it has been in our […]
Date: January 29, 1773 Authors: Attributed to Samuel Adams, Joseph Warren, and/or Benjamin Church, Jr. [Modern installment III] “Your Excellency is disposed to compare this government to the variety of corporations formed within the kingdom, with power to make and execute by-laws, &c. And because they remain subject to the supreme authority of parliament, to […]
Date: January 29, 1773 Authors: Attributed to Samuel Adams, Joseph Warren, and/or Benjamin Church, Jr. [Modern installment II] “We have brought the first American charters into view, and the state of the country when they were granted, to show that the right of disposing of the lands was in the opinion of those times vested […]
Date: January 29, 1773 Authors: Attributed to Samuel Adams, Joseph Warren, and/or Benjamin Church, Jr. “BOSTON. In the House of Representatives, January 27, 1773. ORDERED, that Mr. Adams, Mr. Hancock, Mr. Bacon, Col. Bowers, Major Hawley, Capt. Darby, Mr. Philips, Col. Thayer and Col. Strockbridge, be a Committee to wait on his Excellency the Governor […]
Date: [October 22] 1773 [William Eustis to Dr. John Warren] “Dear BROTHER, This may serve to inform you that as soon as the body of Levi Ames was pronounced dead, by Dr. Jeffries, Dr. Jeffries, it was delivered by the Sheriff [Stephen Greenleaf] to a person who carried it in a cart to the water […]
Date: May 17, 1773 Epitaphium Dominae Elisae War***. Omnes, flete, dolete, cari virtutis amici: Heu! Nostras terras Dulcis Elisa fugit. Quisnam Novit eam gemitus que negare profundos Posset? permagni est criminis ille reus. – D….. [Editor’s translation from the Latin]: Epitaph of Mistress Elisa War[ren] Everyone, weep, grieve, dear friends of virtue. Alas! Our lands […]
Date: November 20, 1772 “[T]the following will not fail to excite the Attention of all who consider themselves interested in the Happiness and Freedom of Mankind in general, and of this Continent and Province in Particular. 1st. The British Parliament have assumed the Powers of Legislation for the Colonists in all Cases whatsoever, without obtaining […]
Date: January 10, 1771 “Province of Massachusetts Bay to Jos: Warren To 730 Visits at 1/6 pt Visit from May 1769 to May 1770 £54/15/0 [the document goes on to list 30 people, of which 3 include “for Wife” and an added two “& Child” Line items for these people, added to the £54/15/0 totals […]
