ADAMS: 1762–63
“is very obstinate”: Bancroft, IV, 386.
“reading the Bible”: Guedalla, 23.
George’s sexual desires: Guttmacher, 32–33.
“. . . according to his deserts.”: George III, Letters to Bute, Dec. 8, 1758.
“Be a King!”: Guttmacher, 25.
Hutchinson’s lecture: Miller, Adams, 41.
“Esquire Bluster”: Waters, 130.
“Furio”: John Adams, Diary, I, 237.
Otis threatens to resign: Waters, 148.
Deacon Adams: Wells, III, 427.
Land Bank: Miller, Adams, 9–11.
“the idle and the extravagant”: Young, 15.
Adams’ thesis at Harvard: Wells, I, 10.
Adams’ indifference to money: Ibid., 54.
Adams saves his house: Ibid., 28; Sibley, X, 422–23.
tyranny by the few: Becker, Eve, 166.
America’s area: Morison, History, I, 1.
“. . . greasy, shining head.”: Sibley, XIII, 380.
gentlemen outvoted in Town Meetings: Young, 22.
“a filthy skunk”: Boston Evening Post, Mar. 28, 1763.
Hutchinson’s history: Bailyn, Ordeal, 19.
Hutchinson on Whigs: Hutchinson, History, III, 75.
Bernard’s background: Higgins, I, 174–82.
Bernard’s son: Ibid., 219.
“. . . spread with brass.”: Harlow, 21.
“. . . an hour more.”: Ayling, 328.
“. . . Mr. Greenville.”: Bancroft, V, 145.
HENRY: 1763–64
meetings broken up: Willison, 62.
Virginia games: George Morgan, 55.
Maury’s slaves’ names: Willison, 73.
tobacco laws: Tyler, 36.
Peter Lyons: Willison, 78.
Henry accepts fifteen shillings: Meade, 126.
Jefferson on Henry: Jefferson, Works, XII, 388n.
Henry’s preparation for law: George Morgan, 44.
Henry’s hunting: Meade, 52–53.
“sold the last peck”: George Morgan, 38.
Peyton Randolph’s education: Willison, 53.
Henry with John Randolph: George Morgan, 47.
man of genius: Jefferson, Works, XI, 228.
Virginia considers barring lawyers: Meade, 95.
tobacco rates: Tyler, 38.
“. . . vulgar herd”: Mayer, 63.
Henry’s jurors: Willison, 77.
first reaction to Henry: Tyler, 45.
Lyons objects: Willison, 80.
“. . . the lying-in woman!”: George Morgan, 68–72.
one-penny award: Willison, 81.
Maury’s reaction: George Morgan, 72.
220,000 pounds: Green, 227.
Pitt dropped the idea: Willison, 111.
Walpole bequeaths tax plan: George Morgan, 88.
“This is taxing them”: Willison, 110.
Mauduit’s prediction: Edmund Morgan, Crisis, 42.
past taxes only to regulate trade: Otis, Rights.
Samuel Adams’ instructions: Wells, I, 46–48.
“Perhaps I may be too suspicious.”: Harlow, 34.
Rhode Island’s letter: Hutchinson, History, III, 83.
Grenville on tax: Hosmer, 80.
“the easiest, the most equal . . .”: Green, 230.
items taxed: Charles Andrews, 245.
Isaac Barré: Page Smith, New Age, I, 192–93.
“Sons of liberty” as familiar term: Maier, Resistance, 82.
RIOTS: 1765
Liberty Tree: Forbes, 97.
“. . . hanging on a tree”: Sibley, VII, 394.
“. . . set people a-thinking . . .”: Otis, Rights, 73.
flop down before the tree: Boston Gazette, Aug. 19, 1765.
Samuel Adams wants to inquire further: Miller, Adams, 61.
cheers sounded defiant: Bernard, letter to Halifax, Aug. 15, 1765, Sparks Collection.
destroying Oliver’s building: Boston Gazette, Aug. 19, 1765.
patriots deny stealing valuables: Ibid.
Gazette treats lightheartedly: Ibid.
100 pounds reward: Ibid., Sept. 2, 1765.
previous rioting: Maier, Resistance, 4.
burned private barn: Edmund Morgan, Crisis, 159.
“a single man . . .”: Sibley, VIII, cites Andrew Oliver to John Spooner.
Hutchinson seen heading for country: Hutchinson, History, III, 88.
“black regiment”: Oliver, 29.
Mayhew background: Sibley, XI, 465.
Bernard on mob: Bernard to Halifax, Aug. 31, 1765, Sparks Collection.
Boston merchants as smugglers: Hutchinson, History, III, 89.
Hallowell’s house: Miller, Origins, 243.
cellar drunk dry: Morgan, Crisis, 166.
greatest civil violence: Bailyn, Ordeal, 35.
destruction of Hutchinson’s house: Hosmer, 92.
“. . . anguish of his soul”: Ibid., 95.
Hutchinson address: Proceedings, Mass. Hist. Soc, IV, April 1858.
Mayhew’s response: Wells, I, 62.
Hutchinson on same villains: Miller, Adams, 67.
“rude fellows,” “hellish fury”: Boston Gazette, Sept. 2, 1765.
Mackintosh background: Anderson, “Mackintosh,” 15.
grudging admiration: Oliver, 54.
set Mackintosh free: Hutchinson, Diary, I, 71.
“. . . Mackintosh has the credit . . .”: Harlow, 50.
“very tame apes, too.”: Maier, Resistance, 62.
POLITICS: 1765
“Orator of Nature”: George Morgan, 75.
candidate too stingy: Willison, 87–92.
Washington’s defeat: Ibid., 93.
Burgesses on horseback: Hodges, 15.
“. . . filling his pockets with money?”: Edmund Morgan, Crisis, 120.
Henry’s apology: Beeman, 38.
“. . . for a single vote”: Jefferson, Works, XI, 229n.
Hutchinson softened letter: Galvin, 93.
“. . . They are men! . . .”: John Adams, Works, X, 287.
Bernard as good-natured man: Barrington-Bernard Corresp., 32.
Bernard sure all would be well: Ibid., 53.
Bernard’s spies: Bernard, letter to Pownall, Aug. 23, 1765, Sparks Collection.
“The dignity of Great Britain . . .”: Ibid., to Jackson, Aug. 24, 1765, Sparks. troops would inflame the mob: Ibid., to Lords of Trade, undated (September 1765), Sparks.
Description of stamp: Anderson, “Mackintosh,” 14–15.
Cost for bail bond: Force, 4th series, 40.
New Hampshire volunteered to sign: Tudor, 225.
South Carolina felt isolated: Andrews, 205–6.
“. . . all of us Americans.”: Goodloe, 7–10.
Otis wouldn’t sign: Gordon, I, 174.
“Young man . . .”: Weslager, 154.
“cutting one another’s throats . . .”: Ibid.
no house left to destroy: Miller, Adams, 96.
“a perpetual itching . . .”: Hooker, 65.
Blacks kept out of march: Miller, Adams, 69.
Samuel Adams frees slave: Wells, II, 20.
Adams’ tax deficits: Goodell, 213–26.
Hutchinson blamed Adams: Miller, Adams, 61.
“Massah Tamp Act . . .”: Oliver, 65.
John Adams’ diary entry: Adams, Diary, I, 264–65.
“. . . they smoke tobacco . . .”: Wells, I, 86–87.
drank flip: Peladeau, 5.
Samuel Adams’ radical love of liberty: Wells, I, 86–87.
“If not . . . !”: Boston Gazette, Dec. 23, 1765.
Oliver’s remarks: Sibley, VIII, 159.
Sons’ strategy: Edmund Morgan, Crisis, 174.
Attorney general’s rheumatism: Ibid., 179.
Bernard’s “total languor . . .”: Barrington-Bernard Corresp., 240–41.
“. . . some emphasis behind it.”: Hancock, 100–101.
John Adams’ arguments
: Adams, Diary, I, 267.
Hutchinson thought his life in danger: Hutchinson, History, III, 103.
HANCOCK: 1765–68
Grenville suffered defeat: Green, 233–34.
“These yellow shades of men . . .”: Edmund Morgan, Birth, 21.
no right to retaliate: Page Smith, New Age, I, 237.
Pitt’s speaking style: Butler, 17–18.
Pitt’s speech: Green, 253–54.
“. . . I only finish.”: Ayling, 341.
“. . . totally and immediately.”: Green, 258–59.
“. . . forfeit the name of Pitt . . .”: Bancroft, VI, 24.
Franklin’s testimony: Force, 80–81.
Hancock’s fireworks: Goss, I, 36.
“Every dirty fellow . . .”: Frothingham, Warren, 73.
maddened with loyalty: Wells, I, 115.
ought to be beheaded: John Adams, Diary, I, 280.
“. . . John that may do better?”: Francis Drake, lxiii n.
Hancock background: Allan, 23–30.
slave made drunk: Morison, Harvard, 115.
“. . . as possible to her size”: Allan, 34.
Thomas Hancock’s smuggling: Ibid., 45–47.
“. . . that young man’s fortune their own. “: Tudor, 262.
losses of 2500 pounds: Hutchinson, Diary, 70.
rabble and scum: Miller, Adams, 113.
Townshend found distinction ridiculous: Ibid., 115.
he knew “the mode . . .”: Beach, 128.
knew the tactic was extortion: Edmund Morgan, Birth, 37–38.
“the greatest political curses . . .”: Miller, Adams, 118.
Hulton laughs at parade: Beach, 136.
“. . . lick the dust . . .”: Miller, Adams, 140.
“. . . directly to his kennel.”: Ibid., 98.
“defalcation”: Hutchinson, History, III, 212.
“. . . tail of the rattle snake.”: Oliver, 40.
forgave Adams’ debt: Miller, Adams, 101.
“His power over weak minds . . .”: Oliver, 41.
Captain Marshall incident: Zobel, 73.
H. M. S. Romney arrives: Beach, 146.
impressed men held: Boston Gazette, June 20, 1768.
“a blackguard town . . .”: Beach, 150.
Madeira disappeared: Hancock, 157.
Englishwoman’s response: Beach, 147.
“. . . To your tents, O Israel.”: Ibid.
Tory dinner guests: Beach, 154.
John Adams’ calculation: John Adams, Works, X, 260.
“. . . even unto blood”: Harlow, 123.
“If you are men . . .”: Ibid.
threatening them with famine: Beach, 148.
Bernard was self-impressed: Tudor, 330.
“. . . enjoy it a week.”: Ibid.
circular letter: Beach, 140.
“. . . the whole Empire.”: Miller, Adams, 125.
“. . . to quieuvicue them”: Tudor, 317.
“. . . the contempt it deserves.”: Edmund Morgan, Birth, 41.
dissolve the House: Beach, 145.
Otis’ remarks: Tudor, 325.
“. . . pimps and whoremasters.”: Miller, Adams, 143.
“. . . like a horned snake.”: Adam, 17.
“. . . by dividing we fall.”: Tudor, 502.
“Poor Paxton’s usual . . .”: Bailyn, Ordeal, 25.
“bad thing for Boston . . .”: Miller, A dams, 120.
“popish” towns: Ibid., 129.
Washington welcomed ban: Maier, Resistance, 119.
Bernard’s fears about troops: Barrington-Bernard Corresp., 113–14.
Adams reassures Hillsborough: Harlow, 128.
Warren’s attack: Boston Gazette, Feb. 29, 1768.
“. . . punish such lying.”: Baldwin, 58–59.
“behaves like a madman . . .”: Bernard to Shelburne, Mar. 5, 1768, Sparks Collection.
humoring a willful child: Barrington-Bernard Corresp., 126.
Isaiah quotation: Hutchinson, Diary, frontispiece.
“. . . authority over his children.”: Hosmer, 137.
“. . . America prostrate at our feet.”: Frothingham, Warren, 95n.
OCCUPATION: 1768–69
“for obvious reasons”: Bernard to General Gage, July 2, 1768, Sparks Collection.
Council advising Bernard: Ibid., to Col. Dalrymple, July 3, 1768, Sparks.
Adams-Otis exchange: Ibid., to Hillsborough, July 9, 1768, Sparks.
False report about Adams: Frothingham, 80.
“. . . they will be delivered.”: Miller, A dams, 151.
“. . . as foreign enemies”: Harlow, 133.
“. . . lives and fortunes.”: Maier, Resistance, 82.
“. . . violent designs of others.”: Miller, Adams, 159.
“a fresh token . . .”: Boston Chronicle, Oct. 3, 1768.
“. . . scalded hogs.”: Miller, Adams, 161.
“Yankee Doodle” background: Maverick, 106–35.
British parade: Zobel, 100.
people would not be awed: Boston Gazette, Oct. 3, 1768.
“. . . I will stand alone.”: Williams, “Samuel Adams,” 47.
Samuel Adams and child: Wells, III, 220.
“. . . feats of action.”: Miller, Adams, 162–63.
“. . . red-dressed”: John Quincy Adams, 121.
“the ridiculous puff . . .”: Miller, Adams, 163.
Otis about British stench: Tudor, 338.
Dalrymple reward: Beach, 161.
“. . . cut your masters’ throats”: Zobel, 102.
blown off course: Beach, 168.
Molineux letting property: Zobel, 104.
“. . . spend our last drop of blood . . .”: Ibid., 171.
“. . . thou fool!”: Sibley, XIII, 382.
“. . . give laws to England.”: Bailyn, Ordeal, 127.
“shuddered at the sight of hemp”: Miller, Adams, 167.
“within a hair’s breadth”: Ibid.
make the Council more responsive: Walett, 205–22.
“. . . worst effects.”: Ibid.
“. . . great contempt.”: Miller, Adams, 171.
cut the heart out of portrait: Ibid.
“. . . black eye.”: Harlow, 135.
canoe: Barrington-Bernard Corresp., Oct. 12, 1769, p. 207.
“. . . independent we shall be.”: Hutchinson, History, III, 190.
“Journal of the Times”: Miller, Adams, 174.
“working the political engine”: John Adams, Diary, I, 432–33.
war producing more births than deaths: Miller, Adams, 175.
“. . . favorite grand-daughter”: Ibid.
gunfire and horseraces: Lemisch, 492.
“They stick at nothing.”: Bailyn, Ordeal, 125.
traditional password: Samuel Adams, Writings, I, 255.
dig in ribs: Miller, Adams, 176.
change parade schedule: Frothingham, Rise, 117–18.
ear-piercing fife: John Adams, Diary, III, 289–90.
Britain’s determination: Beach, 165.
“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.
MASSACRE: 1770
“. . . rest of the people never could.”: Zobel, 153.
Hutchinson wrote to London in code: Bailyn, Ordeal, 1
54.
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.
TRIAL: 1770
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.
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