Patriots (84 page)

“cool, abstemious, polished”:
Miller,
Adams
, 94.

“. . . loved good cheer.”:
Ibid.

noblest of duties:
Tudor, 356.

“. . . or any of his cabal.”:
Boston Gazette
, Sept. 4, 1769.

“. . . to break his head.”:
Ibid.

brawl in tavern: Ibid., Sept. 18, 1769.

assassination attempt:
Ibid., Sept. 11, 1769.

“very unfair play”:
Bailyn,
Ordeal
, 137.

Robinson to pay costs: Tudor, 366.

smeared Mein’s signs:
Zobel, 151.

had her jailed:
Mitchell, I, 2.

careless about spelling: Schachner, 5.

divorce in England: Ibid., 8.

Decalogue in Hebrew:
John Hamilton, 3.

“. . . wish there was a war”:
Ibid., 4–5.

“. . . rest of the people never could.”:
Zobel, 153.

Hutchinson wrote to London in code: Bailyn,
Ordeal
, 154.

Mein’s attacks: Zobel, 156.

Molineux and Adams get warrant: Ibid., 158.

“Stop, Mr. Molineux! . . .”:
Ibid., 166–67.

“. . . treating my person.”:
Ibid., 167.

Hutchinson’s distress: Hutchinson,
History
, III, 192.

“. . . able to please him.”:
Zobel, 173.

make a lane through them:
Boston Gazette
, Feb. 26, 1770.

“. . . Your liver out!”:
Zobel, 174.

“. . . son of a poor German.”:
Hutchinson,
History
, III, 194.

Bostonians resented the competition:
Lemisch, 485–504.

exchange at Gray’s ropeworks: John Adams,
Legal
, III, 134; Samuel Drake, 273.

Burdick episode: Page Smith,
New Age
, I, 332.

small boy rings bells: Francis Bowen, 350.

Private White and Garrick: Zobel, 186.

Preston background: Higgins, II, 221.

Firing on King Street: Zobel: 195–200.

“. . . they will not fire.”:
Kidder, 6.

Crispus Attucks:
Ibid., 29–3on.

“You are only frightened.”:
Ibid., 287.

“Perhaps, sir, you may.”:
Zobel, 200.

Adams after shootings: John Adams,
Diary
, III, 292.

John Adams as boy: Chinard, 12.

Adams mourns end of Harvard days: Sibley, XIII, 514–15.

infant petticoats:
John Adams,
Diary
, I, 13.

Adams weighs career: Ibid., III, 264.

Adams on suffrage: Ibid., 265.

Adams as dramatist: Bailyn,
Butterfield’s
, 243–45.

Franklin considered genius: John Adams,
Diary
, I, 13.

Gridley-Adams exchange: Ibid., 272.

“no friends”:
Bailyn,
Butterfield’s
, 244.

Paine-Adams exchange: John Adams,
Diary
, I, 59.

Adams about Hannah Quincy: Ibid., 67.

“. . . gain a reputation!”:
Ibid., 78.

Adams considers proposing to Hannah: Shaw, 30.

“. . . obliging, active.”:
John Adams,
Diary
, I, 234.

“. . . legs of a lady”:
Page Smith,
Adams
, I, 68.

Adams’ mortification: Shaw, 53.

path to madness:
Frothingham,
Warren
, 51.

declined Admiralty Court: Trevelyan, I, 72.

“. . . not get her with child”:
Page Smith,
Adams
, I, 109.

“. . . rational amusements or inquiries.”:
Ibid., 110.

fame and power: Rossiter,
Legacy
, 528–50.

James Forrest:
John Adams,
Diary
, III, 292.

“. . . die by the law!”:
Bailyn,
Ordeal
, 158.

Preston led to jail: John Quincy Adams, 138–39.

“. . . without hesitation he shall have it”:
John Adams,
Diary
, III, 293.

delegates call on Hutchinson: Wells, 1, 323.

“Both regiments or none!”:
Ibid.

guilty of high treason:
Bailyn,
Ordeal
, 159.

“I can do nothing further.”:
Zobel, 207.

Hutchinson’s knees trembling: Warren and Adams, 1, 9.

Hutchinson sees proof of plot: Bailyn,
Ordeal
, 161.

“And take the troops with you.”:
Zobel, 209.

common grave:
Kidder, 30.

“. . . tyrants not one mile away?”:
Ibid., 215.

no excuse for delay: Samuel Adams, II, 18.

“Sam Adams’s two regiments”:
Beach, 196.

Revere’s engraving: Forbes, 154–55.

“God send thee a good deliverance.”:
Zobel, 239.

never convict Preston:
Ibid., 245.

“. . . harken to your evidence”:
John Adams,
Legal
, I, 123.

“. . . we must conform to the times.”:
Kidder, 20.

Jack’s testimony: Zobel, 258.

Preston didn’t thank Adams: Forbes, 170.

Quincy background: Ibid., 157–58.

Samuel Adams on servant and master: Samuel Adams, II, 132.

Carr’s testimony: Forbes, 160; Zobel, 286.

Samuel Adams on Carr’s reliability: Forbes, 160.

John Adams on mob: Zobel, 292.

three brawlers at the ropeworks: Lemisch, 485.

“. . . guilty of manslaughter.”:
Wemms, 207–9.

benefit of clergy:
Burleigh, 95n.

Montgomery confessed:
Mayo, 33.

“. . . a little more significant”:
Hosmer, 192.

patriots accused of plunder: Samuel Adams, II, 15–16.

Samuel Adams on red cloak: Ibid., 124.

Hutchinson accepts the governorship: Bailyn,
Ordeal
, 167.

“. . . Cursed be the day I was born.”:
Miller,
Adams
, 219.

Abigail Adams burst into tears:
John Adams,
Diary
, III, 294.

“Never in more misery . . .”:
Ibid., II, 6.

Samuel Adams letter to Hancock: Samuel Adams, II, 9.

“. . . hope to see a good effect.”:
Frothingham,
Warren
, 102.

Hancock and cadets: Fowler, 136.

promote Hancock to Council: Bailyn,
Ordeal
, 178.

Hutchinson warns against Adams’ cunning: Fowler, 141; Wells, II, 12.

tried where goods were confiscated: Bartlett, 7.

hanged as pirates:
Staples, 5.

aboard the
Gaspee:
Bartlett, 15–24.

Dudingston refuses to testify: Ibid., 25.

Hutchinson’s response: Bailyn,
Ordeal
, 194; Wells, II, 14.

burning five times as serious:
K. G. Davis, 6.

“. . . wash her hands in innocence.”:
Wells, II, 16.

Dudingston sends gold buckle: Bartlett, 24–45.

“. . . make themselves ridiculous.”:
Wells, II, 2.

Adams-Warren exchange: Warren and Adams, I, 14, Dec. 9, 1772; Frothingham,
Warren
, 212.

towns’ endorsements: Wells, II, 3.

Adams didn’t believe letters useful: Ibid., 318.

tyrants tremble:
Bailyn,
Ordeal
, 240.

Hancock swore:
Miller,
Adams
, 280.

Franklin on ruse: Bailyn,
Ordeal
, 24on.

Adams as “Novanglus”: Ibid., 243.

“. . . cries from the ground.”:
Ibid., 249.

Hutchinson on King David: Ibid., 251.

Adams on Hancock’s tea: John Adams,
Diary
, II, 5.

bribes for customs officers: Schlesinger, “Uprising,” 62.

legal tea cost less: Ibid., 63.

East India Co. second to Bank of England: Fowler, 154.

Hutchinson’s sons licensed: Bailyn,
Ordeal
, 259. 175

“. . . sake of gain.”:
Dickinson,
Writings
, I, 459.

first shipment from China: Labaree,
Tea Party
, 4.

rheumatism and nervous fevers:
Schlesinger, “Uprising,” 78.

“. . . shall not be landed”:
Frothingham,
Warren
, 240.

Faneuil threatened: Francis Drake, xxix.

“. . . trifling subject.”:
Frothingham,
Warren
, 247.

Dartmouth
arrives:
Goss, 1, 120.

“. . . stares you in the face.”:
Newell, 217.

Hutchinson on Adams: Frothingham,
Warren
, 258.

“that the tea should be returned . . .”:
“Minutes of the Tea Meetings,” 10–11.

watch committee appointed: Ibid., 11.

“. . . representative of
majesty
?”:
Bailyn,
Ordeal
, 261.

Hutchinson’s response: Francis Drake, liv.

“The ship must go . . .”:
Ibid., lv.

Hutchinson’s research: Labaree,
Tea Party
, 139.

towns advised to appoint inspectors: Francis Drake, lix.

Meeting agreed to extension: Ibid., lxvi.

“A mob! A mob!”: Labaree,
Tea Party
, 141.

“. . . to save the country.”:
Goss, I, 127; Wells, II, 122.

“Boston harbor a teapot tonight!”:
Francis Drake, lxiv.

“. . . do what is right in his own eyes.”:
Forbes, 189.

Edes and Mohawks: Francis Drake, lxxviii.

Hewes:
Thatcher, 61–112.

Rhode Island crew: Maier,
Resistance
, 7.

“The path is wide enough . . .”:
Francis Drake, lxxx.

“What a cup of tea . . .”:
Ibid., lxxxii.

onlookers underfoot: Labaree,
Tea Party
, 145.

tea falling back on deck: Francis Drake, lxxxviii.

“You had better make your will first!”:
Thatcher,
Hewes
, 183.

Montagu-Pitts exchange: Ibid., 185.

“Well, George . . .”:
Ibid., 187.

wife more tea-drinker: Forbes, 192.

“a little saltwater tea”:
Ibid., 191–92.

Sessions left town: Francis Drake, lxxx.

Mackintosh:
Anderson, 60–64.

Hancock’s undisclosed interest: Hancock, 178n.

“We are in perfect jubilee . . .”:
Goss, I, 131.

New York pact: Jensen,
Founding
, 446.

“There is a dignity, a majesty . . .”:
John Adams,
Diary
, II, 86.

“Rally, Mohawks!”:
Goss, I, 128.

Dartmouth not informed: Labaree,
Tea Party
, 174.

“. . . wild pretensions”:
Channing, III, 133.

Philadelphia throng: Wells, II, 129.

“. . . bungling politician.”:
Ibid., 43n.

Hillsborough and Franklin: Bailyn,
Ordeal
, 232; Fennelly, 363.

Dartmouth and Franklin: Bailyn,
Ordeal
, 254.

“. . . a hundred grievances . . .”:
Morison and Commager, 159.

Wedderburn in Edinburgh: Mumby, 314.

Wedderburn’s attack: Van Doren,
Franklin
, 469.

Whatley sues Franklin: Bailyn,
Ordeal
, 257.

Franklin on prison: Mumby, 317–18.

Gage in London: George III,
Correspondence with North
, 164.

Gage’s dull conversation: Miller,
Origins
, 398.

Gage resembled Adams: Samuel Drake, 243.

Gage had recommended troops for two years: Nichols, 140–44.

Boston would be destroyed: Labaree,
Tea Party
, 183.

Debate in Parliament: Bancroft, VI, 514; Channing, III, 135.

colonies more a burden: Becker,
Eve
, 208.

Gibbon on Port Act: Channing, III, 135.

George III jeered:
Bancroft, VI, 514.

“. . . submit or triumph.”:
Becker,
Eve
, 208.

Merchants and North: Labaree,
Tea Party
, 193.

another load of tea dumped: Bailyn,
Ordeal
, 270.

Tory bills affecting Boston: Labaree,
Tea Party
, 195–96.

Barré opposition: Ibid., 200.

Gage could restore privileges: Mumby, 342.

Gage’s reception in Boston: Leonard Larabee, 125.

Hancock delivers Adams’ speech: Wells, II, 138.

Hutchinson prepares to leave: Bailyn,
Ordeal
, 264–65.

Oliver’s death:
Ibid., 269.

men overheard at funeral: Mumby, 329.

Hutchinson’s tributes: Bailyn,
Ordeal
, 273.

Adams’ disparagement: Miller,
Adams
, 301.

Hutchinsons seasick: Bailyn,
Ordeal
, 274.

Hutchinson’s interview with George III: Hutchinson, “Interview,” 326ff.

Hutchinson hissed: Fowler, 173.

hangmen with Port Act: Fiske, “Eve,” 359.

Samuel Adams’ response to Port Act: Wells, II, 147.

Adams solicited food: Ibid., 181.

Committees pledged support: Ibid., 159.

Adams reassured about break: Mumby, 319.

Adams and Tories in House: Wells, II, 173–78.

Gage and Boston strengths: Forbes, 213; Tourtellot, 86.

farmers and fishermen send food: Fiske, “Eve,” 359.

committee should be annihilated: Wells, II, 182.

Adams’ fable: Ibid., 184.

Gage to Dartmouth: Ibid., 186.

“A guinea never glistened . . .”:
Umbreit, 176–77.

Fenton’s bribe: Wells, II, 195.

“Tell General Gage . . .”:
Fiske, “Eve,” 366.

“United we stand . . .”:
Meade, 311.

A Summary View
. . .:
Jefferson,
Jefferson
, ed. Peterson, 105–22.