Patriots (83 page)

first reaction to Henry: Tyler, 45.

Lyons objects: Willison, 80.

“. . . the lying-in woman!”:
George Morgan, 68–72.

one-penny award: Willison, 81.

Maury’s reaction: George Morgan, 72.

220,000 pounds:
Green, 227.

Pitt dropped the idea: Willison, 111.

Walpole bequeaths tax plan: George Morgan, 88.

“This is taxing them”:
Willison, 110.

Mauduit’s prediction: Edmund Morgan,
Crisis
, 42.

past taxes only to regulate trade: Otis,
Rights.

Samuel Adams’ instructions: Wells, I, 46–48.

“Perhaps I may be too suspicious.”:
Harlow, 34.

Rhode Island’s letter: Hutchinson,
History
, III, 83.

Grenville on tax: Hosmer, 80.

“the easiest, the most equal . . .”:
Green, 230.

items taxed: Charles Andrews, 245.

Isaac Barré:
Page Smith,
New Age
, I, 192–93.

“Sons of liberty” as familiar term:
Maier,
Resistance
, 82.

Liberty Tree: Forbes, 97.

“. . . hanging on a tree”:
Sibley, VII, 394.

“. . . set people a-thinking . . .”:
Otis,
Rights
, 73.

flop down before the tree:
Boston Gazette
, Aug. 19, 1765.

Samuel Adams wants to inquire further: Miller,
Adams
, 61.

cheers sounded defiant: Bernard, letter to Halifax, Aug. 15, 1765, Sparks Collection.

destroying Oliver’s building:
Boston Gazette
, Aug. 19, 1765.

patriots deny stealing valuables: Ibid.

Gazette
treats lightheartedly: Ibid.

100 pounds reward: Ibid., Sept. 2, 1765.

previous rioting: Maier,
Resistance
, 4.

burned private barn: Edmund Morgan,
Crisis
, 159.

“a single man . . .”:
Sibley, VIII, cites Andrew Oliver to John Spooner.

Hutchinson seen heading for country: Hutchinson,
History
, III, 88.

“black regiment”:
Oliver, 29.

Mayhew background: Sibley, XI, 465.

Bernard on mob: Bernard to Halifax, Aug. 31, 1765, Sparks Collection.

Boston merchants as smugglers: Hutchinson,
History
, III, 89.

Hallowell’s house: Miller,
Origins
, 243.

cellar drunk dry: Morgan,
Crisis, 166.

greatest civil violence:
Bailyn,
Ordeal
, 35.

destruction of Hutchinson’s house: Hosmer, 92.

“. . . anguish of his soul”:
Ibid., 95.

Hutchinson address:
Proceedings, Mass. Hist. Soc
, IV, April 1858.

Mayhew’s response: Wells, I, 62.

Hutchinson on same villains: Miller,
Adams, 67.

“rude fellows,” “hellish fury”:
Boston Gazette
, Sept. 2, 1765.

Mackintosh background: Anderson, “Mackintosh,” 15.

grudging admiration:
Oliver, 54.

set Mackintosh free: Hutchinson,
Diary
, I, 71.

“. . . Mackintosh has the credit . . .”:
Harlow, 50.

“very tame apes, too.”:
Maier,
Resistance
, 62.

“Orator of Nature”:
George Morgan, 75.

candidate too stingy: Willison, 87–92.

Washington’s defeat: Ibid., 93.

Burgesses on horseback: Hodges, 15.

“. . . filling his pockets with money?”:
Edmund Morgan,
Crisis
, 120.

Henry’s apology: Beeman, 38.

“. . . for a single vote”:
Jefferson,
Works
, XI, 229n.

Hutchinson softened letter: Galvin, 93.

“. . . They are men! . . .”:
John Adams,
Works
, X, 287.

Bernard as good-natured man:
Barrington-Bernard Corresp.
, 32.

Bernard sure all would be well: Ibid., 53.

Bernard’s spies: Bernard, letter to Pownall, Aug. 23, 1765, Sparks Collection.

“The dignity of Great Britain . . .”:
Ibid., to Jackson, Aug. 24, 1765, Sparks. troops would inflame the mob: Ibid., to Lords of Trade, undated (September 1765), Sparks.

Description of stamp: Anderson, “Mackintosh,” 14–15.

Cost for bail bond: Force, 4th series, 40.

New Hampshire volunteered to sign: Tudor, 225.

South Carolina felt isolated: Andrews, 205–6.

“. . . all of us Americans.”:
Goodloe, 7–10.

Otis wouldn’t sign: Gordon, I, 174.

“Young man . . .”:
Weslager, 154.

“cutting one another’s throats . . .”:
Ibid.

no house left to destroy: Miller,
Adams
, 96.

“a perpetual itching . . .”:
Hooker, 65.

Blacks kept out of march: Miller,
Adams
, 69.

Samuel Adams frees slave: Wells, II, 20.

Adams’ tax deficits: Goodell, 213–26.

Hutchinson blamed Adams: Miller,
Adams
, 61.

“Massah Tamp Act . . .”:
Oliver, 65.

John Adams’ diary entry: Adams,
Diary
, I, 264–65.

“. . . they smoke tobacco . . .”:
Wells, I, 86–87.

drank flip:
Peladeau, 5.

Samuel Adams’ radical love of liberty: Wells, I, 86–87.

“If not . . . !”:
Boston Gazette
, Dec. 23, 1765.

Oliver’s remarks: Sibley, VIII, 159.

Sons’ strategy: Edmund Morgan,
Crisis
, 174.

Attorney general’s rheumatism: Ibid., 179.

Bernard’s “total languor . . .”:
Barrington-Bernard Corresp.
, 240–41.

“. . . some emphasis behind it.”:
Hancock, 100–101.

John Adams’ arguments: Adams,
Diary
, I, 267.

Hutchinson thought his life in danger: Hutchinson,
History
, III, 103.

Grenville suffered defeat: Green, 233–34.

“These yellow shades of men . . .”:
Edmund Morgan,
Birth
, 21.

no right to retaliate:
Page Smith,
New Age
, I, 237.

Pitt’s speaking style: Butler, 17–18.

Pitt’s speech: Green, 253–54.

“. . . I only finish.”:
Ayling, 341.

“. . . totally and immediately.”:
Green, 258–59.

“. . . forfeit the name of Pitt . . .”:
Bancroft, VI, 24.

Franklin’s testimony: Force, 80–81.

Hancock’s fireworks: Goss, I, 36.

“Every dirty fellow . . .”:
Frothingham,
Warren
, 73.

maddened with loyalty: Wells, I, 115.

ought to be beheaded: John Adams,
Diary
, I, 280.

“. . . John that may do better?”:
Francis Drake, lxiii n.

Hancock background: Allan, 23–30.

slave made drunk:
Morison,
Harvard
, 115.

“. . . as possible to her size”: Allan, 34.

Thomas Hancock’s smuggling: Ibid., 45–47.

“. . . that young man’s fortune their own. “:
Tudor, 262.

losses of 2500 pounds: Hutchinson,
Diary
, 70.

rabble and scum:
Miller,
Adams
, 113.

Townshend found distinction ridiculous:
Ibid., 115.

he knew “the mode . . .”:
Beach, 128.

knew the tactic was extortion:
Edmund Morgan,
Birth
, 37–38.

“the greatest political curses . . .”:
Miller,
Adams
, 118.

Hulton laughs at parade: Beach, 136.

“. . . lick the dust . . .”:
Miller,
Adams
, 140.

“. . . directly to his kennel.”:
Ibid., 98.

“defalcation”:
Hutchinson,
History
, III, 212.

“. . . tail of the rattle snake.”:
Oliver, 40.

forgave Adams’ debt: Miller,
Adams
, 101.

“His power over weak minds . . .”:
Oliver, 41.

Captain Marshall incident: Zobel, 73.

H. M. S.
Romney
arrives: Beach, 146.

impressed men held:
Boston Gazette
, June 20, 1768.

“a blackguard town . . .”:
Beach, 150.

Madeira disappeared: Hancock, 157.

Englishwoman’s response: Beach, 147.

“. . . To your tents, O Israel.”:
Ibid.

Tory dinner guests:
Beach, 154.

John Adams’ calculation: John Adams,
Works
, X, 260.

“. . . even unto blood”:
Harlow, 123.

“If you are men . . .”:
Ibid.

threatening them with famine:
Beach, 148.

Bernard was self-impressed: Tudor, 330.

“. . . enjoy it a week.”:
Ibid.

circular letter:
Beach, 140.

“. . . the whole Empire.”:
Miller,
Adams
, 125.

“. . . to quieuvicue them”:
Tudor, 317.

“. . . the contempt it deserves.”:
Edmund Morgan,
Birth
, 41.

dissolve the House:
Beach, 145.

Otis’ remarks: Tudor, 325.

“. . . pimps and whoremasters.”:
Miller,
Adams
, 143.

“. . . like a horned snake.”:
Adam, 17.

“. . . by dividing we fall.”:
Tudor, 502.

“Poor Paxton’s usual . . .”:
Bailyn,
Ordeal
, 25.

“bad thing for Boston . . .”:
Miller,
A dams
, 120.

“popish” towns:
Ibid., 129.

Washington welcomed ban: Maier,
Resistance
, 119.

Bernard’s fears about troops:
Barrington-Bernard Corresp.
, 113–14.

Adams reassures Hillsborough: Harlow, 128.

Warren’s attack:
Boston Gazette
, Feb. 29, 1768.

“. . . punish such lying.”:
Baldwin, 58–59.

“behaves like a madman . . .”:
Bernard to Shelburne, Mar. 5, 1768, Sparks Collection.

humoring a willful child:
Barrington-Bernard Corresp.
, 126.

Isaiah quotation: Hutchinson,
Diary
, frontispiece.

“. . . authority over his children.”:
Hosmer, 137.

“. . . America prostrate at our feet.”:
Frothingham,
Warren
, 95n.

“for obvious reasons”:
Bernard to General Gage, July 2, 1768, Sparks Collection.

Council advising Bernard: Ibid., to Col. Dalrymple, July 3, 1768, Sparks.

Adams-Otis exchange: Ibid., to Hillsborough, July 9, 1768, Sparks.

False report about Adams: Frothingham, 80.

“. . . they will be delivered.”:
Miller,
A dams
, 151.

“. . . as foreign enemies”:
Harlow, 133.

“. . . lives and fortunes.”:
Maier,
Resistance
, 82.

“. . . violent designs of others.”:
Miller,
Adams
, 159.

“a fresh token . . .”:
Boston Chronicle
, Oct. 3, 1768.

“. . . scalded hogs.”:
Miller,
Adams
, 161.

“Yankee Doodle” background:
Maverick, 106–35.

British parade:
Zobel, 100.

people would not be awed:
Boston Gazette
, Oct. 3, 1768.

“. . . I will stand alone.”:
Williams, “Samuel Adams,” 47.

Samuel Adams and child: Wells, III, 220.

“. . . feats of action.”:
Miller,
Adams
, 162–63.

“. . . red-dressed”:
John Quincy Adams, 121.

“the ridiculous puff . . .”:
Miller,
Adams
, 163.

Otis about British stench: Tudor, 338.

Dalrymple reward: Beach, 161.

“. . . cut your masters’ throats”:
Zobel, 102.

blown off course:
Beach, 168.

Molineux letting property: Zobel, 104.

“. . . spend our last drop of blood . . .”:
Ibid., 171.

“. . . thou fool!”:
Sibley, XIII, 382.

“. . . give laws to England.”:
Bailyn,
Ordeal
, 127.

“shuddered at the sight of hemp”:
Miller,
Adams
, 167.

“within a hair’s breadth”:
Ibid.

make the Council more responsive:
Walett, 205–22.

“. . . worst effects.”:
Ibid.

“. . . great contempt.”:
Miller,
Adams
, 171.

cut the heart out of portrait: Ibid.

“. . . black eye.”:
Harlow, 135.

canoe:
Barrington-Bernard Corresp.
, Oct. 12, 1769, p. 207.

“. . . independent we shall be.”:
Hutchinson,
History
, III, 190.

“Journal of the Times”:
Miller,
Adams
, 174.

“working the political engine”:
John Adams,
Diary
, I, 432–33.

war producing more births than deaths: Miller,
Adams
, 175.

“. . . favorite grand-daughter”:
Ibid.

gunfire and horseraces:
Lemisch, 492.

“They stick at nothing.”:
Bailyn,
Ordeal
, 125.

traditional password:
Samuel Adams,
Writings
, I, 255.

dig in ribs: Miller,
Adams
, 176.

change parade schedule: Frothingham,
Rise
, 117–18.

ear-piercing fife:
John Adams,
Diary
, III, 289–90.

Britain’s determination:
Beach, 165.