Over 660 signatures appear on a newly re-discovered 1767 Non-Consumption Agreement from Boston. Here is the second installment of transcribed names. Col Obv / Verso Place in Col. Sex First Name Last Name Notations on ms 5 1 O 1 M Henderson Inches 5 1 O 2 M William Etheridge 5 1 O 3 M […]
Dr. Thomas Young
Dates: October 23, November 2, and November 3, 1773 Author: Abiel Ruddock as secretary of the Boston North End Caucus “October 23, 1773. Gibbons Sharp Moderator. Voted – That this body will oppose the vending any Tea, sent by the East India Company to any part of the Continent, with our lives and fortunes. Voted […]
“Boston September 21, 1773 Sir Doctor Young yesterday introduced Doctor Randall to me as a Gentleman and Physician of Reputation, and at his Request I enetered upon a conversation concerning medical Matters in general, and more particularly upon the Manner of treating the small Pox, when communicated in the natural way or by Inoculation— And […]
Date: February 24, 1772 “BOSTON, February 24. Last Saturday Afternoon two pettey Officers of His Majesty’s Ship Beaver now in this Harbour, had some Words in a Shop in King Street, which soon arose to Blows on the side of Mr. Bryant, Captain’s Clerk, and were returned by Mr. Quelch, the Gunner, with a Stab […]
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 […]
