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January 22, 2013
Who Are These Impudent Women, Non-Consumers of British Goods?
Author: Joseph Warren signatory and possible co-author “Boston 31.st 1769. We the subscribers Inhabitants of the Town of Boston being desirous to concur with the Merchants and Traders of said Town in their late laudable Agreement not to import any of the Manufactures of Great Britain, do hereby faithfully promise and engage that we will [...]
January 17, 2013
Discovery of Shared Printing Plates Between Patriot Publishers
Date: Jan-Feb 1773 The Massachusetts Spy, Vol. II, issue 104, suppl; January 29, 1773; Essex Gazette, Vol. V, Issue 136, pp. 1-2 suppl, February 9, 1773; and Massachusetts Gazette Extraordinary, Issue 3618, p. 1, February 4, 1773 – published the Massachusetts House of Representatives’ answer to Thomas Hutchinson’s New Year’s 1773 speech. The first two [...]
January 15, 2013
An Answer Was Drawn Prettily Written
Date: early 1800s referring to events of January 1773 Author: John Adams “It was I believe in1772 that Governor Hutchinson, in an elaborate Speech to both Houses of Congress endeavoured to convince them, their Constituents and the World that Parliament was our Sovereign Legislature, and had a Right to make Laws for Us in all [...]
January 11, 2013
House of Representatives’ Answer to Gov. Hutchinson IV
Date: January 29, 1773 Authors: Attributed to Samuel Adams, Joseph Warren, and/or Benjamin Church, Jr. [Modern installment IV] “Thus we have endeavored to shew the Sense of the People of this Colony under both Charters; and if there have been in any late Instances a Submission to Acts of Parliament, it has been in our [...]
January 10, 2013
House of Representatives’ Answer to Gov. Hutchinson III
Date: January 29, 1773 Authors: Attributed to Samuel Adams, Joseph Warren, and/or Benjamin Church, Jr. [Modern installment III] “Your Excellency is disposed to compare this government to the variety of corporations formed within the kingdom, with power to make and execute by-laws, &c. And because they remain subject to the supreme authority of parliament, to [...]
January 9, 2013
House of Representatives’ Answer to Gov. Hutchinson II
Date: January 29, 1773 Authors: Attributed to Samuel Adams, Joseph Warren, and/or Benjamin Church, Jr. [Modern installment II] “We have brought the first American charters into view, and the state of the country when they were granted, to show that the right of disposing of the lands was in the opinion of those times vested [...]
January 8, 2013
House of Representatives’ Answer to Gov. Hutchinson I
Date: January 29, 1773 Authors: Attributed to Samuel Adams, Joseph Warren, and/or Benjamin Church, Jr. “BOSTON. In the House of Representatives, January 27, 1773. ORDERED, that Mr. Adams, Mr. Hancock, Mr. Bacon, Col. Bowers, Major Hawley, Capt. Darby, Mr. Philips, Col. Thayer and Col. Strockbridge, be a Committee to wait on his Excellency the Governor [...]
January 2, 2013
Hutchinson’s 1773 Address in a Modernized and Condensed Version
Date: January 11, 1773 Author: Thomas Hutchinson Gentlemen of the Council, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, I have nothing special from His Majesty at this time, rather general instructions from me. That the Government is at present in a disturbed and disordered state is a truth too evident to be denied. For several [...]
January 1, 2013
The Constitution Has Been Called Into Question
Date: January 11, 1773 Author: Thomas Hutchinson “BOSTON, January 11, 1773. Wednesday last [i.e. January 6th] the Great & general Court or Assembly of the Province met here, when his Excellency the Governor was pleased to make the following SPEECH to both Houses, viz. Gentlemen of the Council, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, [...]
December 25, 2012
On Hymenian Affairs, Are You Enlisted Under His Godship?
Author: Dr. Samuel Adams, Jr. Date: September 7, 1777 “To John Warren Esq Genl Surgeon of the Military Hosp E.D. Boston” “General Hospital Fish Kill [New York] 7th Sep.r 1777 My dear Friend Jack I received your very agreeable Favour by Doctor Blanchard; I assure you, my Friend, I am always happy in hearing from [...]
