Author: Anonymous Date: [late December 1773] “Rally Mohawks, and bring your axes And tell King George we’ll pay no taxes on his foreign tea; His threats are vain, and vain to think To force our girls and wives to drink his vile Bohea! Then rally, boys, and hasten on To meet our […]
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Date: February 26, 1770 “Last Thursday Morning [i.e. February 22nd] about 10 o ‘Clock, some Boys & Children set up a large wooden Head, with a Board faced with paper, on which was painted the figures of four of the Importers, who had entered into, and violated the Merchants agreement, in the middle of the […]
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 […]
Author: Wayne McCarthy, Waltham Public Schools and Past Captain Commanding of the Lexington Minute Men Date: Jan-Feb 1773 Source: Massachusetts Spy, Vol. II, issue 104, suppl, January 29, 1773; Essex Gazette, Vol. V, Issue 136, pp. 1-2 suppl, February 9, 1773 Commentary: Mr. McCarthy speculates, with respect to both political motivations and the mechanics of […]
Author: Wayne McCarthy, Waltham Public Schools and Past Captain Commanding of the Lexington Minute Men Date: Jan-Feb 1773 Source: Massachusetts Spy, Vol. II, issue 104, suppl, January 29, 1773; and Essex Gazette, Vol. V, Issue 136, pp. 1-2 suppl, February 9, 1773 Several authorities have taken note of the apparently identical printings of the Massachusetts’ […]
Date: Jan-Feb 1773 The Massachusetts Spy, Vol. II, issue 104, suppl; January 29, 1773; Essex Gazette, Vol. V, Issue 136, pp. 1-2 suppl, February 9, 1773; and Massachusetts Gazette Extraordinary, Issue 3618, p. 1, February 4, 1773 – published the Massachusetts House of Representatives’ answer to Thomas Hutchinson’s New Year’s 1773 speech. The first two […]
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 11, 1773 Author: Thomas Hutchinson Gentlemen of the Council, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, I have nothing special from His Majesty at this time, rather general instructions from me. That the Government is at present in a disturbed and disordered state is a truth too evident to be denied. For several […]
Date: January 11, 1773 Author: Thomas Hutchinson “BOSTON, January 11, 1773. Wednesday last [i.e. January 6th] the Great & general Court or Assembly of the Province met here, when his Excellency the Governor was pleased to make the following SPEECH to both Houses, viz. Gentlemen of the Council, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, […]
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 […]
