Date: December 5, 1770 Author: George Green to his brother Joseph Green “My mother has let out the house to one Doctor Warren, & boards with him, as she did not choose to move out of a place she has been so long us’d to. She reserves to herself the 2 front chambers and keeps […]
about Warren
Author: John Adams Date: February 14, 1771 “Dined at Mr. Hancocks with the Members, [Dr. Joseph] Warren, [Dr. Benjamin] Church, [Reverend Dr. Samuel or William] Cooper, &c. and Mr. Harrison and spent the whole Afternoon and drank Green Tea, from Holland I hope, but don’t know.” Source: Diary of John Adams, The Adams Papers, Series […]
Date: December 18, 1769 “Last week an interesting trial came on before the Superior Court now sitting here, wherein Dr. Joseph Warren, administrator on the estate of Nathaniel Wheelwright, Esq; late of Boston, deceased, was plaintiff, for the recovery of part of the estate which the said Nathaniel had made over to Charles W. Apthorp, […]
by John Greenleaf, about Mucius Scaevola Date: December 11, 1771 “Dear Sir, As you are desirous of having an Account of the Late transactions of the Governor and Council relating to the, and my conduct respecting the same, I shall gratify you by giving you a short detail, that you may be able to judge, […]
Date: August 1770 Authors: John Greenleaf in committee with Daniel Noyes, Samuel Pool, Aaron Hobart, David Jones, Jr. and Thomas Wilkse “Ever since what they call the massacre of the 5th of March, the news-papers have been full of resolves from the different towns, in support of the non-importation agreement, totally denying the power of […]
Author: Freeman, a pseudonymous Loyalist Date: December 28, 1771 I shall now proceed and consider another subject of complaint, The Governor’s receiving a salary from the Crown independent of the people, having first observed that there is not the least reason to suppose that the appointment of this salary was solicited by his Excellency. One […]
Author: [Anonymous], apparently extracted from the Boston Gazette Date: November 28, 1771 “Nov. 22. On Friday last in the afternoon his Excellency the Governor lais before the Council for their advice thereon, a paper in the Massachusetts Spy of Thursday, signed Mucius Scaevola, said to contain divers seditious expressions &c. The council after debating till […]
Author: A, a pseudonymous Loyalist Date: December 7, 1771 To Mucius Scaevola. In the detestation of your political enormities, suffer me to join in the publick voice: But as I can resent your crime without any disagreeable emotions, I shall go close through this address without breathing one anathema on the perpetrator. Could I possibly […]
Date: March 15, 1775 Author: Dr. Thomas Bolton An Oration delivered March Fifteenth, 1775. At The Request of a Number of the Inhabitants of The Town of Boston Ye Friends to justice, equity, and truth, Ye Foes to falsehood, treason, and rebellion, – – – – – – – With patience hear […]
Date: May 8, 1769 Pursuant to a Note of the Town of Boston at their Annual Meetings the 4[th] of May last desiring the Selectmen to visit the several publick Schools in the Town and to invite such Gentlemen to accompany them therein as they should think proper & to Report thereon— We the Subscribers […]
