Sam Forman's Blog, page 25
October 9, 2012
Good Sense and Modesty with Virtue Crown’d
Date: May 3, 1773 “Died On Tuesday last. Mrs. Elizabeth Warren, the amiable and virtuous Consort of Dr. Joseph Warren, in the 26th Year of her Age. – Her Remains were decently interr’d last Friday Afternoon. If fading Lillies, when they droop and die Rob’d of each Charm that pleas’d the gazing Eye, With sad [...]
October 2, 2012
I was the Proudest and Cunningest Fellow
by John Adams Date: January 1, 1773 “1773 January The First, Being Fryday … The Speaker [Samuel Adams], Dr. Warren and Mr. Swift were there – And We Six had a very pleasant Evening. Our Conversation turned upon the Distress of Rhode Island, upon the Judges Dependency, the late numerous Town Meetings, upon Brattles Publication [...]
A Very Agre[e]able Conversation
by John Adams Date: December 16, 1772 “1772 Decr. 16. Wednesday. Dined with the Reverend Mr. Simeon Hayward [Howard] of West Boston, in Company with Dr. Chauncey, Captn. Phillips, Dr. Warren, Mrs. Hayward, Miss Betsy Mayhew and a young Gentleman whose Name I dont know. Had a very agreable Conversation.” Source: Adams Family Papers: An [...]
September 25, 2012
Receipt – John Adams Esq to Joseph Warren Dr
by John Adams Date: March 14, 1772 “To Medicines and Attendance for himself and Family from March 1769 to January 1772 23/16/4 To one Cask of [ ] Wine 6/0/0 To Cash at several Times 13/4/0 To Cash 14/0/0 To Cash 11 18 0 To Cash 42/0/0 110/18/4″ Source: The Adams Papers, Boston: Massachusetts Historical [...]
Receipt – Joseph Warren to John Adams
Date: March 14, 1772 “Boston For Value received I promise to pay to John Adams Esq on Order the Sum of one Hundred and thirty three Pounds six shillings and Eight Pence lawful Money upon [illegible] 133; 6; 8 Jos Warren” Source: The Adams Papers, Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, Microform Reel 344 Commentary: By 1772, [...]
Receipt for John Adams
Date: March 14, 1772 “Receipt Boston March 14th 1772 Received the Contents in full [signed] Dr Joseph Warren” Source: The Adams Papers, Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, Microform Reel 344 Commentary: By 1772, the relationship between John Adams and Joseph Warren encompassed medical care, legal services, Patriotic political activism, friendship, and perhaps business dealings. This receipt [...]
September 19, 2012
A List of Infrigements and Violation of Rights – Boston Committee of Correspondence
Date: November 20, 1772 “[T]the following will not fail to excite the Attention of all who consider themselves interested in the Happiness and Freedom of Mankind in general, and of this Continent and Province in Particular. 1st. The British Parliament have assumed the Powers of Legislation for the Colonists in all Cases whatsoever, without obtaining [...]
September 9, 2012
The Suffolk Resolves – Draft
Author: Attributed on the basis of handwriting by the biographer John Cary to the Boston town clerk. Date: September 6, 1774 At a Convention of the Representative Comtees of the Several Towns & Districts of the County of Suffolk in the Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England, on Tuesday the 6th day of Septemr [...]
September 4, 2012
The Suffolk Resolves – Complete Text
Date: September 9, 1774 “At a meeting of the delegates of every town and district in the county of Suffolk, on Tuesday, the 6th of September, at the house of Mr. Richard Woodward, of Dedham, and, by adjournment, at the house of Mr. Daniel Vose, of Milton, on Friday, the 9th instant, Joseph Palmer, Esq., [...]
The Power But Not the Justice, the Vengeance but Not the Wisdom of Great Britain… The Suffolk Resolves
Date: September 9, 1774 “At a meeting of the delegates of every town and district in the county of Suffolk, on Tuesday, the 6th of September, at the house of Mr. Richard Woodward, of Dedham, and, by adjournment, at the house of Mr. Daniel Vose, of Milton, on Friday, the 9th instant, Joseph Palmer, Esq., [...]
