Authors: A. J. Langguth
“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.
“. . . rest of the people never could.”:
Zobel, 153.
Hutchinson wrote to London in code: Bailyn,
Ordeal
, 154.
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.
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.
“. . . 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.
“. . . 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.
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.
Oliver’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.