American Tempest (40 page)

13
. Soame Janyns, in Paul D. Brandes,
John Hancock's Life and Speeches
(Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1996), 45.

14
. Johnson to Board of Trade, August 20, 1762, in Knollenberg,
Origin
, 89–90.

15
. John Hancock to Bernard & Harrison, April 5, 1765, Hancock Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society [hereafter MHS].

16
. Schlesinger, 67.

Notes to Chapter 5

1
. Hutchinson, II:197–98.

2
. Ibid., December 20, 1736.

3
. Sears, 17.

4
. Ibid.

5
. Ibid.

6
. Thomas Hancock to Christopher Kilby, June 12, 1755, in Baxter, 132.

7
. Ibid.

Notes to Chapter 6

1
. John Hancock to Barnard & Harrison, February 7, 1765, MHS.

2
. “Proceedings of the House of Commons the resolution and the bill of February 7 and 13,”
Journals of the House of Commons
, XXX:98–101.

3
. Jackson Garth (agent for South Carolina) to South Carolina Committee of Correspondence, February 8, 1765, in Knollenberg, 207.

4
. John Hancock to Barnard and Harrison, May 13, 1765, MHS.

5
. John Hancock to Thomas Pownall, July 6, 1765, MHS.

6
. Instructions of the Town of Braintree to their Representative, 1765, in Adams,
Works,
III:465–68.

7
. Ibid.

8
. William Wirt Henry,
Patrick Henry, Correspondence and Speeches
, 3 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891). Edmund Randolph recalled the speech differently, saying Henry actually retreated at the end of his attack. Here is how Randolph recalled this part of the speech: “‘Caesar,' cried he, ‘had his Brutus; Charles the first his Cromwell, and George the third . . . ' ‘Treason, sir,' exclaimed the Speaker, to which Henry instantly replied, ‘and George the third, may he never have either.'” Edmund Randolph,
History of Virginia
, ed. Arthur H. Shaffer (Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, published for the Virginia Historical Society, 1970), 169. But another burgess who heard Henry's speech rebuts Randolph: “If Henry did speak any apologetic words, they were doubtless uttered almost tongue in cheek to give him some legal protection.” Randolph, 169 n.38–170n.

9
. From Henry manuscript, in Moses Coit Tyler,
Patrick Henry
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1887), 85.

10
. Tyler, 85.

11
.
Maryland Gazette
, July 4, 1765.

12
. Letter from Fauquier, November 3, 1765, in Robert Douthat Meade,
Patrick Henry, Patriot in the Making
(Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1957), 184.

13
. Tyler, 82.

14
.
Boston Gazette
, April 4, 1763, BPL.

15
. Adams,
Works
, II:178–79.

16
. “Attack on Andrew Oliver of Massachusetts,” Governor Bernard to Lord Halifax, August 15 and 16, 1765, Bernard Papers, cited in Knollenberg,
Origin
, 211.

17
. Bernard to Board of Trade, August 15, 1765, in Gipson, 991.

Notes to Chapter 7

1
. Hutchinson, I:18.

2
. Adair and Schutz, 53–54.

3
. Adams,
Writings
, II:201.

4
. William M. Fowler, Jr.,
The Baron of Beacon Hill: A Biography of John Hancock
(Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1980), 58–59.

5
. Governor Bernard to Board of Trade, August 31, 1765, in Gipson, 93.

6
. Adair and Schutz, 54.

7
. Ibid., 52.

8
. Ibid.

9
. Governor Bernard to Board of Trade, August 31, 1765, in John C. Miller,
Samuel Adams: Pioneer in Propaganda
(Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1936), 68.

10
. Ibid.

11
. Governor Bernard to Board of Trade, op. cit.

12
. Adams,
Works
, II:259–61.

13
. Ibid., II:144.

14
. Adair and Schutz, 40.

15
. Ibid.

16
. John Hancock to Jonathan Barnard, September 11, 1765, Hancock Papers, MHS.

17
. “A Petition to the King from the Stamp Act Congress, October 19, 1765,” in Paul Leicester Ford, ed.,
The Writings of John Dickinson, Volume I, Political Writings
(Philadelphia: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1895), 193–96.

18
. Francis Bernard to Thomas Pownall, November 5, 1765, Bernard Papers, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

19
. John Hancock to Jonathan Barnard, October 14, 1765, Hancock Papers, MHS.

20
. John Hancock to Jonathan Barnard, December 1765, Hancock Papers, MHS.

21
. John Hancock to Jonathan Barnard, January 18, 1766, Hancock Papers, MHS.

22
. Francis Bernard to Thomas Pownall, November 6, 1765, Houghton Library.

23
. Ibid.

24
. John Hancock to Barnard & Harrison, December 21, 1765, MHS.

25
.
Pennsylvania Gazette
, February 27, 1766.

26
. George Washington to Francis Dandridge, September 20, 1765, in Abbot and Twohig, 7:395–96.

Notes to Chapter 8

1
. Brandes, 53.

2
. Grenville to House of Commons, December 17, 1765, in Knollenberg,
Origin
, 16.

3
. Gipson, 110, citing
Parliamentary History of England
(London: T. C. Hansard, 1813), XVI.

4
. English Merchants' Circular Letter, February 28, 1766, MHS.

5
.
Parliamentary History of England
, XVI:181–88, as cited in Gipson, 115.

6
. Ibid., XVI:172–76.

7
. Customs Commissioners to Lords of the Treasury, March 27, 1766, in Public Record Office, cited in Baxter, 260.

8
. Adams,
Works
, II:259–61.

9
.
Massachusetts Gazette Extraordinary
, May 22, 1766, BPL.

10
. Ibid.

11
. Schlesinger, 92.

12
. William V. Wells,
The Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams
, 3 vols. (Boston, 1865), I:124.

13
.
Pennsylvania Gazette
, November 27, and December 11, 1766 (with datelines of September 20 and September 30, respectively).

14
. Hutchinson, II:277.

15
. Adams,
Works
, X:218.

16
.
Boston Evening Post
, June 9, 1766, BPL.

17
. John Hancock to William Reeve, September 3, 1767, New England Historical and Genealogical Society.

18
. Adair and Schutz, 6.

19
.
Boston Gazette
, October 3, 1768, BPL.

20
.
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies by John Dickinson, 1768
, in Ford.,
Writings of John Dickinson
, 307–406.

21
. John Dickinson to James Otis, December 5, 1767, MHS.

22
.
Boston Gazette
, March 14, 1768, BPL.

23
. Customs Commissioners to Lord of the Treasury, May 12, 1768, in Knollenberg,
Growth
, 56.

24
. Wells, I:186.

Notes to Chapter 9

1
. Excerpt from a “Letter to a Loyalist Lady,” cited in John C. Miller,
Samuel Adams: Pioneer in Propaganda
(Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1936), 141.

2
. Miller, 142.

3
. Ibid., 144–45.

4
.
Boston Gazette
, August 4, 1768, BPL.

5
.
Boston Gazette
, July 3, 1767, BPL.

6
. Ibid.

7
. George Washington to George Mason, April 5, 1769, in Abbot and Twohig,
The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series
, 8:177–81.

8
. Sears, 114.

9
. Miller, 153.

10
.
New Hampshire Gazette
, November 1, 1768, BPL
.

11
. Hutchinson,
The Diary and Letters
, II:333.

12
. Francis Bernard to Lord Hillsborough, October 1, 1768, and William Dalrymple to Thomas Gage, October 2, 1768, in Colonial Office Documents, cited in Zobel, 181.

13
. David Hackett Fischer,
Paul Revere's Ride
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 22.

14
.
Boston Gazette
, October 26, 1768, BPL.

15
. Thomas Gage to Lord Hillsborough, October 26, 1768, in Gipson, 191.

16
.
Boston Evening Post
, July 24 and 31, 1769, BPL.

17
. Francis Bernard to Lord Hillsborough, October 4, 1768, in Colonial Office Documents, in Zobel, 183.

18
. Thomas Hutchinson to Thomas Whately, October 4, 1768, in Allan, 114.

19
. Butterfield, III:306.

20
. Ibid., 306n.

21
. Roth, 68, citing Léon Chotteau,
Les Français en Amérique
(Paris, 1876).

22
. Ibid.

23
.
Boston Gazette
, August 29, 1768, in Schlesinger, 109.

24
.
Boston News-Letter,
January 11, 1770.

25
. Schlesinger, 173.

26
. Unsigned, undated paper from America, c. 1769, “Liverpool Papers,” in Labaree, 31.

27
. Adair and Schutz, 72–73.

28
.
Newport Mercury
, September 4, 1769, BPL.

29
.
Boston Chronicle
, October 26, 1769, BPL.

30
. Ibid., October 30, 1769, BPL.

31
. Adair and Schutz, 105.

32
. Article by Samuel Adams, signed “An Impartialist,” in
Boston Gazette
, September 25, 1769, BPL.

33
. Adams,
Works
, II:226–27.

34
. Thomas Hutchinson to Francis Bernard, November 27, 1769, Bernard Papers, MHS.

35
. Ibid., 227.

36
. Miller, 220.

37
. William Samuel Johnson to Jonathan Trumbull, February 3, 1771, MHS.

38
. Ibid.

Notes to Chapter 10

1
. Hutchinson,
Diary and Letters
, III:136.

2
. Adair and Schutz, 42–43, 105.

3
. Gipson, 197.

4
. Zobel, 167.

5
. Ibid., 171.

6
. Roth, 66.

7
. Ibid.

8
. Ibid.

9
. M. Jacquelin, York, Virginia, to John Norton, London, August 14, 1769, in Roth, 66.

10
.
Boston Post-Boy
, November 16, 1767, in Schlesinger, 108.

11
. Butterfield, I:349–50.

12
.
Boston Gazette
, February 26, 1770, BPL.

13
. Thomas Gage to Lord Hillsborough, April 10, 1770, in Zobel, 181.

14
. Brandes, 83.

15
. Zobel, 189.

16
. Zobel, 189–294 and 346–56 cover these events in detail, minute by minute.

17
. Ibid.

18
. Ibid.

19
. Ibid.

20
. Ibid., 202.

21
. Ibid., 203.

22
. Adams,
Works
, II:229–30.

23
.
New York Public Advertiser
, April 28, 1770, New York Public Library.

24
.
Boston Gazette
, March 12, 1770, BPL.

25
. Pelham sent Revere an angry letter accusing the silversmith of printing the Pelham drawing without permission and depriving the artist of his just revenues “as truly as if you had plundered me on the public highway.” They eventually settled their differences. Fischer, 23n.

26
. Committee to Pownall, March 12, 1770, in
Gentleman's Magazine
(London), April 1770.