Sam Forman's Blog, page 18
September 4, 2013
They Say They Have a Right to Determine for Themselves Under What Government They Will Live Hereafter
Date: September 4, 1774 [To Samuel Adams in Philadelphia] Dear Sir, – Our friends, Drs. Church and Young (whose letters I have seen), write so fully to you by this conveyance, that it will be needless for me to take up your time in giving a minute account of what has passed since my last. [...]
August 26, 2013
Subscribers to Boston 1767 Non-Consumption: Alphabetic I – Z
This completes the alphabetic listing of names transcribed from by the newly rediscovered Boston 1767 non-consumption subscription. Page Col. Obv / Verso Place in Col. Sex First Name Last Name Notes on ms 5 1 O 1 M Henderson Inches 2 1 O 2 M Tho.s Ivers 2 1 O 11 M James Ivers 2 [...]
August 19, 2013
Subscribers to Boston 1767 Non-Consumption: Alphabetic A – H
Over 660 signatures appear on a newly re-discovered 1767 Non-Consumption Agreement from Boston. Here they are listed alphabetically by surname A through H. Page Col. Obv / Verso Place in Col. Sex First Name Last Name Notes on ms 6 2 V 9 M Jonathan Abrams 3 2 O 17 M John Adams Junr 1 [...]
August 13, 2013
Signers of 1767 Non-Consumption Subscription – Last 4 of 8 Pages
Over 660 signatures appear on a newly re-discovered 1767 Non-Consumption Agreement from Boston. Here is the second installment of transcribed names. Col Obv / Verso Place in Col. Sex First Name Last Name Notations on ms 5 1 O 1 M Henderson Inches 5 1 O 2 M William Etheridge 5 1 O 3 M [...]
August 6, 2013
Signers of 1767 Non-Consumption Agreement – First 4 of 8 Pages
Page Column Obv / Verso Place in Col. Gender First Name Last Name Notations on ms 1 1 O 1 M John Steel 1 1 O 2 M John Ruddock 1 1 O 3 M Saml Proctor 1 1 O 4 M Richard Bright 1 1 O 5 M Jabez [...]
July 30, 2013
Wounded Too Deeply to be Easily Healed
Date: July 29, 1775 To Josiah Quincy [Sr.] We jointly lament the loss of a Quincy, and a Warren; two characters, as great in proportion to their age, as any that I have ever known in America. Our country mourns the loss of both, and sincerely sympathises with the feelings of the mother of the [...]
July 23, 2013
Attleboro’s Solemn League and Covenant
Date: July 13, 1774 signatures on document printed early in June 1774 “WE the Subscribers, inhabitants of the town of Attlebrough having taken into our serious consideration the precarious state of the liberties on North-America, and more especially the present distressed condition of this insulted province, embarrassed as it is by several acts of the [...]
July 16, 2013
Preserve and Recover the Much Injured Constitution – Solemn League and Covenant
Date: July 4, 1774 signatures on document printed early in June 1774 “WE the Subscribers, inhabitants of the town of Westford having taken into our serious consideration the precarious state of the liberties on North-America, and more especially the present distressed condition of this insulted province, embarrassed as it is by several acts of the [...]
July 9, 2013
Trumbull’s Study of the Dying Warren
Source: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT. (left) Major General Joseph Warren study for Bunker Hill, not dated [1785], by John Trumbull (1756-1843), accession #1952.3.1b. The sketch has never been published or displayed publicly. (right) Death of Major General Joseph Warren at the Battle of Bunker’s Hill, June 17, 1775 [1785-86] also by John [...]
July 2, 2013
Trumbull’s Bunker Hill as You Never Have Seen It Before
Source: Yale University Art Gallery, Study for Death of General Joseph Warren at the Battle of Bunker’s Hill, by John Trumbull, September 1785, catalog 1993.79.1. In: Peter Hawes, A Great Panorama Celebrating Twenty-five Years of American Art at Yale, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 52, ill. It has not [...]
