“. . . 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.
TEA: 1771–73
“. . . 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.
PORT ACT: 1774
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.
Oli
ver’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.
tobacco exports to stop: Meade, 312.
“. . . I know George will.”: Ibid., 315.
CONGRESS: 1774–75
Samuel Adams’ wardrobe: Wells, II, 208.
coach and four: Boston Gazette, Aug. 15, 1774.
John Adams’ reflections: John Adams, Diary, II, 100.
watermelon: Ibid., 101.
brick buildings: Ibid., 104.
sumptuous breakfast: Ibid., 105.
logic to avalanche: Ibid., 107.
“. . . and talk away.”: Ibid., 109.
Samuel Adams dangerous: Wells, II, 219.
John Adams cold: John Adams, Diary, II, 115n.
Lynch on Washington: Ibid., 117; III, 308.
“We have not men fit for the times. . . .”: Ibid., II, 97.
Randolph admired: Meade, 318.
Henry’s reputation: John Adams, Diary, II, 113.
Silas Deane wrote home: Burnett, Letters, I, 4.
first vote: John Adams, Diary, II, 122.
Thomson seemed to faint: Meade, 322.
John Adams on quibbling: Ibid., 319.
“. . . difficulty and distress.”: Ibid., 323.
“. . . not a Virginian but an American.”: John Adams, Diary, II, 125.
no man could speak twice: Burnett, Letters, I, 13.
Duché praying: John and Abigail Adams, 76.
“Power results from the real property . . .”: Burnett, Letters, I, 22.
made Adams blush: John and Abigail Adams, 71.
John Adams eating: Ibid., 78.
Galloway’s plan: Miller, Adams, 322.
Henry’s objection: Burnett, Letters, I, 53.
Galloway fears mob: Miller, Adams, 323.
Washington writes home: Burnett, Letters, I, 54n.
Galloway on Samuel Adams: Ibid., 55.
John Adams’ complaint: John and Abigail Adams, 78.
Elizabeth Adams on Tories: Samuel Adams, Papers, Box 2, Sept. 12, 1774, Bancroft Collection.
Dr. Benjamin Church wrote: Ibid., Sept. 29, 1774.
Suffolk Resolves: Miller, Adams, 324.
Henry and John Adams: John Adams, Diary, II, 151; Meade, 333.
Gage discredited: Shy, Toward Lexington, 411.
farmers march to Boston: Channing, III, 155–56.
troops dissatisfied with Gage: Tourtellot, 86.
troops caught in market: John Andrews, Letters, Aug. 20, 1774.
cannon as signal: Ibid., Jan. 4, 1775.
“. . . wish to make it your own.”: Mumby, 373.
Burke’s argument: Fiske, “Eve,” 363.
“We shall be forced . . .”: Pitt, Correspondence, IV, 379.
Never! said Montagu: Lecky, 190.
Dartmouth’s orders: Mumby, 376.
Lydia Hancock and Dorothy Quincy: Fowler, 177.
“. . . plunder the effects!”: Boston Evening Post, Sept. 19, 1774.
Warren’s oration: Wells, II, 278–80.
D’Bernicre and Brown’s mission: D’Bernicre, Instructions, 5–6.
Hancock and British: Hancock, 191.
Corps disbanded: Ibid., 185.
Lydia Hancock leaves: Ibid., 182.
complaint about chambermaid: Fowler, 168.
Dorcas Griffith: Tourtellot, 62; Fowler, 169.
Sally Jackson: Forbes, 73.
Dorothy Quincy: Woodbury, 81.
Jefferson on Henry’s nerve: George Morgan, 185.
Henry’s speech: Ibid., 191–95.
LEXINGTON: 1775
Isaiah Thomas: Forbes, 236.
“. . . die up to my knees in blood.”: Tudor, 466.
Revere remarries: Farrington, 10.
“. . . the bumpkins pronounce it easier.”: Forbes, 11.
Revere advertises teeth: Dallas, 20.
Revere didn’t powder hair: Forbes, 85.
Concord hides cannon: Ibid., 237–38.
Gage sends six hundred: Murdock, “British,” 71n.
Smith’s spying mission: Forbes, 233.
answer, “Patrol.”: Mackenzie, I, 18.
matron informs Church: Forbes, 242.
“You are the third person . . .”: Ibid.
“The people here are a set . . .”: Murdock, Nineteenth, 18.
“Why, the cannon at Concord.”: Forbes, 243.
Robert Newman: Ibid., 244–45.
flannel still warm: Ibid., 246.
William Dawes: Tourtellot, 93.
Revere’s ride to Lexington: Revere, Own Story and Three Accounts.
Revere at parsonage: Farrington, 42–43.
British uniforms: Ketchum, Decisive, 123.
British throw away rations: Murdock, “British,” 73.
Lexington Minute Men: Tourtellot, 129–30.
men vote to disband: Ibid., 21–29.
“. . . that hill called Beacon.”: Samuel Drake, 340.
chaise prepared: Revere, Own Story, 19.
Hancock-Quincy exchange: Woodbury, 68; Forbes, 255.
Revere captured: Revere, Three Accounts.
Minute Men reassembled: Narrative, 9.
“If I had my musket . . .”: Tourtellot, III.
Revere and trunk: Forbes, 256–57.
Pitcairn had no intention: Tourtellot, 127.
“Disperse, ye villains . . .”: Narrative, 6; Murdock, Nineteenth, 27.
“. . . Form and surround them.”: Tourtellot, 131.
Samuel Adams hears gunfire: Warren and Adams, 54.
“. . . glorious morning for America.”: Wells, II, 294.
“Do you know where a drummer is?”: Tourtellot, 137.
“What’s that?”: Forbes, 258.
hiding valuables: Fowler, 185
fine salmon: Revere, Own Story, 19–20.
Adams and Hancock in wood: Hancock, 194.
salt pork and potatoes: Woodbury, 67.
Marine sealed orders: Tourtellot, 182–83.
“War’s begun . . .”: Allan, 33.
Buttrick leads march: Tourtellot, 152.
“. . . let us die here.”: Murdock, “British,” 78.
“This is the price of blood.”: Tourtellot, 157.
Pitcairn hopes to stir blood: Forbes, 260.
Description of Brown Bess: Ketchum, Decisive, 125.
Guns used for duck hunting: Mackenzie, I, 27.
Joseph Palmer: Forbes, 261.
“. . . I shall call you a coward.”: Tourtellot, 219.
head split with tomahawk: Murdock, “British,” 88, 93.
Deacon Haynes killed: Tourtellot, 219.
infantrymen panting: Wells, II, 295.
British shot any man: Tourtellot, 196.
skulking like dastards: Waitt, 96.
“King Hancock fo
rever!”: Mackenzie, I, 21.
“Old Put”: Forbes, 261.
London Chronicle: Waitt, 94–95.
George Ill’s ultimatum: Channing, III, 159–60.
ARNOLD: 1775
Benedict’s teachers remembered: Decker, 11.
stole birds, strewed glass: Sparks, 5–6.
Arnold deserted: Sellers, 14.
Arnold’s trade: Boylan, 36.
Hannah Arnold’s suitor: Decker, 21.
Arnold’s duel: Sellers, 6.
Peter Boole: Boylan, 39.
Arnold’s disease: Ibid., 37.
“None but Almighty God . . .”: Arnold, 36.
Arnold commissioned: Ibid., 38.
“Carillon”: Jellison, 106.
“noisy”: De Puy, 79n.
“Huzzah for the Green Mountains!”: Ibid., 159.
“Come out, you old rat!”: Tourtellot, 251.
“. . . what—what—does this mean?”: Forbes, 278.
Boys spat at Arnold’s feet: Boylan, 43.
Stores at Fort Ti: Arnold, 40.
“Boston must be entered . . .”: Hancock, 197.
Dolly Quincy knew whom to blame: Woodbury, 91.
“in short, no person . . .”: Hancock, 198–99.
Adams objected to men pulling carriage: Wells, II, 30–31.
Massachusetts paid for Adams’ clothes: Ibid.
Franklin slept in chair: John Adams, Works, I, 663–64.
Congress told Allen to inventory British artillery: Boylan, 45–46.
“Johnny, you will be hanged . . .”: Ibid., 316.
“What is the reason . . .”: Miller, Adams, 339–40.
“one of the grandest revolutions . . .”: Ibid., 340.
“a great fortune and piddling genius . . .”: John Adams, Diary, II, 174n.
“. . . first politician in the world.”: Wells, II, 304.
“We will show Britain . . .”: Hancock, 201.
Adams confessed knew nothing of military: Miller, Adams, 346.
three parties at Congress: John Adams, Diary, III, 321.
Adams nominates Washington: Ibid., 323.
BUNKER HILL: 1775
“. . . soon find elbow room.”: Ketchum, Decisive, 2.
“an impotent general . . .”: Ibid., 25.
choice of Breed’s Hill: Fleming, 349.
narrow entrance on north side: Ketchum, Decisive, 111.
ditch might protect them: Coffin, 12.
knapsacks loaded down: Lecky, 204.
“. . . gates of hell”: Ketchum, Decisive, 127.
Not one came back: Coffin, 16.
Stark’s men prepare: Ibid., 18.
“carcasses”: Fleming, 240.
“Remember, gentlemen . . .”: Clark, Diary.
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