Otis exited the political stage much as he came onto it. In 1783, shortly after the peace treaty between Britain and America had been signed, he was standing in the doorway of his custodian’s farmhouse, watching an approaching storm, when he was struck by a bolt of lightning and killed.
Acknowledgments
In writing The Rebellion of Jane Clarke I relied heavily on Hiller B. Zobel’s The Boston Massacre, Frederic Kidder’s The History of the Boston Massacre, Legal Papers of John Adams, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, Adams Family Correspondence, and numerous accounts of the day found in the Boston Gazette at the Boston Public Library. Esther Forbes’s Paul Revere and the World He Lived In was additionally helpful with general background.
My thanks to Kathleen Remillard, Nina Gregson, and the rest of the staff at Brewster Ladies Library, Lucy Loomis at Sturgis Library, Mary Sicchio at Cape Cod Community College, and Elizabeth Bouvier and Jennifer Fauxsmith at the Judicial Archives/Massachusetts Archives, for their assistance with the historical research.
My agent Andrea Cirillo always had my back but accepted no excuses, no matter how inventive they became. My editor Jennifer Brehl’s patience and care saw that every word remained on track. My readers Nancy Carlson, Jan Carlson, Diane Carlson, and John Leaning were, as usual, ready, willing, insightful, and supportive. I don’t have the words for all my husband, Tom, contributed to the cause, although the words “lobsters on the porch” do come to mind.
I would also like to thank doctors Monica Piecyk, Jane Watts, and Eric Woodard, massage therapist Barbara Coughlin, and the gang at Rehabilitation Hospital of Cape Cod—particularly, Jennifer Avery, Jennifer Hardigan, and Kristen Marston—for getting me back at the keyboard after a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis sidelined me for months. Without their fine care and concern this book would never have seen the light of day.
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