“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 […]
Samuel Adams
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 […]
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 […]
Author: Dr. Samuel Adams, Jr. Date: September 7, 1777 “To John Warren Esq Genl Surgeon of the Military Hosp E.D. Boston” “General Hospital Fish Kill [New York] 7th Sep.r 1777 My dear Friend Jack I received your very agreeable Favour by Doctor Blanchard; I assure you, my Friend, I am always happy in hearing from […]
by John Adams Date: January 1, 1773 “1773 January The First, Being Fryday … The Speaker [Samuel Adams], Dr. Warren and Mr. Swift were there – And We Six had a very pleasant Evening. Our Conversation turned upon the Distress of Rhode Island, upon the Judges Dependency, the late numerous Town Meetings, upon Brattles Publication […]
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: September 9, 1774 “At a meeting of the delegates of every town and district in the county of Suffolk, on Tuesday, the 6th of September, at the house of Mr. Richard Woodward, of Dedham, and, by adjournment, at the house of Mr. Daniel Vose, of Milton, on Friday, the 9th instant, Joseph Palmer, Esq., […]
