Date: December 13, 1773 The brethren of the Ancient and Honorable Society of FREE and ACCEPTED MASONS, are hereby Notified, That the Right Worshipful John Rowe, Esq; Grand Master of North-America, designs to celebrate the Feast of St. JOHN the Evangelist on Monday the 27th of December Instant, at the House of Brother Ingersoll, the […]
about Warren
by Benjamin Hichborn Date: December 10, 1775 “… One Drew now a Lieutenant of the [HMS] Scorpion or Viper, I am uncertain which, and Bruce a private belonging to the [HMS] Preston, landed on Bunkers Hill, soon after the battle of the 17th of June…. In a day or two after, Drew went upon the […]
by John Adams to Josiah Quincy, Sr. Date: July 29, 1775 We jointly lament the loss of a Quincy, and a Warren; two characters, as great in proportion to their age, as any that I have ever known in America. Our country mourns the loss of both, and sincerely sympathises with the feelings of the […]
“Philadelphia, 17th Sept. 1774. SIR, Your Letter of the 11th Instant, directed “To the Honorable Thomas Cushing, Esq; and the other Gentlemen of the Congress, Members for Massachusetts-Bay,” together with the Resolutions entered into by the Delegates of the several Towns in the County of Suffolk, and their Address to his Excellency Governor Gage were […]
Author: Anonymous Application of Doctor Warren to General Gage Boston, September 27, 1774. A few days ago General Gage paid for, and deposited in his Majesty’ s Magazine, a quantity of military stores, which had been provided many years since at the desire of Colonel Bradstreet, and had laid from that time on the hands […]
[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 […]
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, […]
Page Column Obv / Verso Place in Col. Gender First Name Last Name Notations on ms 1 1 O 1 M John Steel 1 1 O 2 M John Ruddock 1 1 O 3 M Saml Proctor 1 1 O 4 M Richard Bright 1 1 O 5 M Jabez […]
Date: July 29, 1775 To Josiah Quincy [Sr.] We jointly lament the loss of a Quincy, and a Warren; two characters, as great in proportion to their age, as any that I have ever known in America. Our country mourns the loss of both, and sincerely sympathises with the feelings of the mother of the […]
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 […]
