by Nathan Allen
Chapter Four
the Resentor & the popular Conductor
Ellis Ames, Abner Cheney Goodell, Melville Madison Bigelow, editors, The acts and resolves, public and private, of the province of the Massachusetts bay: to which are prefixed the charters of the province. With historical and explanatory notes, and an appendix. Published under chapter 87 of the Resolves of the General court of the commonwealth ..., Volume 1, Part 1 (Wright & Potter, printers to the state, 1896)
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John Henry Cary, Joseph Warren; Physician, Politician, Patriot (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1961)
R. A. Ryerson Political Mobilization and the American Revolution: The Resistance
Movement in Philadelphia, 1765 to 1776 (William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Volume 31, Issue 4, Oct., 1974). Pages 565-588.
Otis Papers, Special Collections, Butler Library, Columbia University, New York. James Otis, Sr. to Joseph Otis, May 30, 1762.Samuel Allyne Otis to Joseph Otis, May 31, 1762.
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. James Otis Sr. to Joseph Otis, October 20, 1761.
G.B. Warden, “The Caucus and Democracy in Colonial Boston,” New England Quarterly 43 (1970), Pages 19-45.
Gary B. Nash, “The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolutions” (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979).
Minute Books of the Superior Court of Judicature Barnstable. May Term 1761 and Plymouth, May Term 1761.
William Tudor, The Life of James Otis of Massachusetts (Boston, 1823).
Henry Russell Spencer, Constitutional conflict in provincial Massachusetts: a study of some phases of the opposition between the Massachusetts governor and General court in the early eighteenth century. (Fred J. Heer, 1905)
Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts. May 27 , 1761 , pages 5-16. June 2, 1761, pages 20-23; June 3, 1761, page 25; June 4, 1761, page 26. November 12, 1761, page 114. November 13, 1761, pages 116-120; February 2, 1762, page 220; February 10, 1762, pages 239; February 10, 1762, page 242; February 19, 1762, page 262; February 24, 1762,page 278; March 4, 1762, page 290; March 5, 1762, page 292; March 6, 1762, pages 294-7; April 19, 1762, page 319.
Report of the record commissioners of the city of Boston, Volume 16. City documents, Boston (Mass.). (Rockwell and Churchill, 1886) 48, 53, 54, 56, 57
Boston Evening-Post: May 18, 1761, December 14, 1761.
Boston Gazette: October 12, 1761; December 21 and 28, 1761; February 15, 1762 (intimations of prosecuting Otis for his publications); December 23, 1765.
Hutchinson Correspondence. Hutchinson to William Bolan, December 14, 1761 & January 11, 1762.
Charles Henry James Douglas, The Financial History of Massachusetts: From the Organization of the Massachusetts Bay Colony to the American Revolution. (1892)
Robert Treat Paine Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society. Samuel Eliot to Robert Treat Paine, January 22, 1762; Robert Treat Paine to Jonathan Sewall, February 17, 1762
Chapter Five
mad people have overturned empires
Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts. June 4, 8, 9, 11, 12, 15, 1762, pages 42-43, 48, 57, 65-67, 70, 76-77. September 14, 1762, page 100. January 12-13, 1763, pages 125-127. January 17, 1763, page 138. January 18, 1763, pages 143-145. January 21, 1763, page 162. January 27, 1763, page 173. January 29, 1763, page 189. January 31, 1763, page 193. February 1, 1763, pages 194-195. February 5, 1763, page 213. February 15, 1763, page 248. February 23, 1763, pages 273-277.
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Report of the record commissioners of the city of Boston, Volume 19. City documents, Boston (Mass.). Pages 204-207. Volume 16, pages 79-88.
Richard A. Samuelson, “The Constitutional Sanity of James Otis: Resistance Leader and Loyal Subject.” (The Review of Politics, Vol. 61, No. 3, Summer, 1999). Pages 493-523.
Robert Treat Paine Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society. Samuel Quincy to Robert Treat Paine, February 9, 1763. Thacher to Robert Treat Paine, December 9, 1963. Jonathan Sewall to Robert Treat Paine, February 11, 1762. Thacher to Robert Treat Paine, August 23, 1763.
Records of the Superior Court of Judicature, Suffolk Court files (Suffolk County Court House, Boston). 1762, pages 385, 415.
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. Samuel Allyne Otis to Joseph Otis, April 13, 1762. James Otis, Jr. to Jasper Mauduit, October 28, 1762. James Otis, Jr. to Jasper Mauduit, October 28, 1762. James Otis, Jr. to Jasper Mauduit, February 14, 1763. Samuel Mather to Samuel Mather, Jr., June 30, 1763. Agreement between John Murray and James Otis, February 8, 1763, Harrison Gray Otis Papers.
Otis Papers, Special Collections, Butler Library, Columbia University, New York. Samuel Allyne Otis to Joseph Otis, February 14, March 8 and June 18, 1763. Samuel Allyne Otis “Invoice” to “James & Jos. Otis, Esqrs.” Dated May 31, 1763.
James Otis, Esq., A Vindication of the Conduct of the House of Representatives. (Edes & Gill, 1762) Reprinted in this edition.
Boston Gazette: January 31, 1763. February 21, 1763, February 28, 1763, March 28, 1763, April 4, 1763, April 11, 1763.
Boston Evening-Post: February 14, 1763, March 21, 1763, March 28, 1763.
Boston News-Letter: April 7, 1763.
Moses Coit Tyler, The Literary History of the American Revolution, 1763-1783, 2 vols. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1897
James R. Ferguson, “Reason in Madness: The Political Thought of James Otis” (The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Apr., 1979). Pages 194-214.
Chapter Six
Troubles in this Country take their rise from one Man
William Gordon, The history of the Rise, progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America: including an account of the late war ; and of the thirteen colonies, from their origin to that period. (Printed for the Author, 1788)
Thomas Hutchinson,The History of the Province of Massachusetts Bay: from 1749 to 1774. (J. Murray, 1828)
Boston Gazette: January 17, 1963; February 28, 1763, March 28, 1763, January 30, 1764, February 6, 1764.
Oliver Morton Dickerson, American Colonial Government 1696-1765: a study of the British board of trade in its relation to the American Colonies, Political, Industrial, Administrative (The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1912)
Office of the Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County, Fourteenth Floor, Suffolk County Court House, Boston. 1764 Term; Inferior Court Record.
Richard Frothingham, Life and times of Joseph Warren. (Little, Brown & Company, 1865)
Justin Winsor, Narrative and Critical History of America: The United States of North America. (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888)
Jared Sparks Collection of American Manuscripts, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University, Cambridge (http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou01965)
Oliver Morton Dickerson, The Navigation Acts and the American Revolution (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1951)
Colin Nicolson, editor, The Papers of Francis Bernard: Governor of Colonial Massachusetts, 1760-1769 (Colonial Society of Massachusetts, January 30, 2008))
William H. Whitmore (ed.), The Massachusetts Civil List (Albany, 1870). Pages, 61, 104-106.
Thomas C. Barrow, Trade and Empire: The British Customs Service in Colonial America, 1660-1775 (IUniverse, June 21, 1999)
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. Charles Chauncy to Jasper Mauduit, October 12, 1762. Jasper Mauduit to James Bowdoin, August 27, 1762 and April 7, 1
763. James Otis, Jr to Jasper
Mauduit, February 14, 1763. Jasper Mauduit to Timothy Ruggles, April 8, 1763 and December 30, 1763.
Thomas Cushing to Jasper Mauduit, October 28, 1763, Thomas Cushing to Jasper Mauduit, January 1764 and February 11, 1764. Arthur Savage, Jr, to Samuel P. Savage, January 12, 1765.
Samuel Gardner Drake, The history and antiquities of the city of Boston: from its settlement in 1630 to the year 1670. With notes, historical and critical; also an introductory history of the discovery and settlement of New England. (L. Stevens, 1854)
Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts. April 20, 1762, page 319. January 26-27, 31, 1764, pages 231-236 and 251-252. May 30, 1764, pages 4-6. June 1 through 8, 1764, pages 14-53. June 13 and 14, 1764, pages 72-82. Otis to Rhode Island Assembly, June 25, 1764.
Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, 39 vols:. (Boston, 1886-1909). Vol. 26, Page 88.
William V. Wells, The Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams V3: Being a Narrative of His Acts and Opinions, and of His Agency in Producing and Forwarding the America (Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008)
Otis Papers, Special Collections, Butler Library, Columbia University, New York. James Otis, Jr. to James Otis, Sr, not dated.
Bernard Bailyn, Pamphlets of the American Revolution, 1750-1776, Volume 1 (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965)
Emer de Vattel, Le droit des gens: Translation of the edition of 1758, by Charles G. Fenwick, with an introduction by Albert de Lapradelle (Carnegie institution of Washington, 1916)
Jeremiah Dummer, A Defence of the New-England Charters, Volume 1, Issue 1 (Printed for J. Almon, 1765)
Chapter Seven
the Terror of Election
Otis Papers, Special Collections, Butler Library, Columbia University, New York. James Otis, Jr. to James Otis, Sr., July 14, 1764. James Otis, Jr. to James Otis, Jr., not dated. Samuel Allyne Otis to Joseph Otis, December 5, 1764. Samuel Allyne Otis to Joseph Otis, August 16, 1765.
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. James Otis, Sr to Joseph Otis, Plymouth, April 8, 1764. Thomas Cushing to Jasper Mauduit, September 12, 1763. Thomas Hutchinson to Israel Williams, April 15, 1763. Thomas Whately to John Temple, London, August 14, 1764. Jasper Mauduit to Andrew Oliver, May 26, 1764. Oxenbridge Thacher Papers. Thomas Cushing to Jasper Mauduit, March 29, 1764. Thomas Cushing to Jasper Mauduit, November 17, 1764. James Otis, Sr to Harrison Gray, Barnstable, December 10, 1764. Edmund Trowbridge to William Bollan, Novermber 1764. John Watts to Robert Monckton, October 12, 1765.
Boston Gazette. January 28, 1761. March 18, 1765. April 23, 1764. October 1, 1764. October 8, 1764. April 22, 1765. July 22 and 29, 1765. August 5, 12, 19 and 26, 1775. September, 2, 1765. January 20, 1766.
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Jared Ingersoll, Jared Ingersoll Papers (BiblioLife, 2010)
Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts. February 1, 1764, pages 203-206. February 4, 1764, pages 210-211. October 18, 1764, page 96. October 24-25, 1764, pages 132-135. May 30, 1765, page 11. June 8 and 25, 1765, page 108-111.
Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, 39 vols. (Boston, 1886-1909). Vol. 30, page 423. Vol. 26, page 141-152.
John Cary, Joseph Warren: Physician, Politician, Patriot (University of Illinois Press, 1961)
Hancock Papers, Baker Library, Harvard University. John Hancock to Harrison, January 21, 1765.
James Otis, Esq., The Rights of the British Colonists Asserted and proved. (Edes & Gill, 1764) Reprinted in this edition.
Boston Evening-Post: September 9, 1765. November 4, 1765.
“An Act for granting and applying certain Stamp Duties, and other Duties, in the British Colonies and Plantations in America ...” Anno Quinto Georgii III. Regis. Pages 499-520. (Boston: printed by Richard and Samuel Draper and Green and Russell, 1765)
William B. Sprague, Annals of the American Pulpit (Robert Carter & Brothers, 1865)
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Chapter Eight
a damned faction
Boston Gazette, March 18, 1766.
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Treasury Papers, Class I, Bundle 442, Library of Congress transcripts.
Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial, VI.
Newport Mercury. September 17, 1764. November 16, 1764. November 19, 1764. January 7, 28, 1765. February 4, 1765.
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