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John Hancock: Merchant King and American Patriot
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Lafayette
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The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness
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Wells, William V.
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Bartlett, John, and Justin Kaplan, eds.
Familiar Quotations
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Boston Chronicle

Boston Evening Post

Boston Gazette

Boston News-Letter

Boston Post-Boy

Maryland Gazette

Massachusetts Gazette Extraordinary

New Hampshire Gazette

Newport Mercury

New York Public Advertiser

Pennsylvania Journal

Virginia Gazette

General References

Dictionary of American Biography

The Dictionary of National Biography

Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia of American History

Webster's American Biographies

Webster's New Biographical Dictionary

Acadians, exile of,
62
,
63–64

Adams, Henry,
42

Adams, John,
20
,
111

on authority of Parliament over colonies,
157–158

biography,
42–43

on Boston Massacre,
142
,
145

on Boston taverns,
41

on Boston Tea Party,
4
,
166
,
172

as Congressional leader,
231

on Continental Association,
195

as Continental Congress delegate,
190
,
212
,
213
,
215
,
217–218
,
219–220
,
221

Declaration of Independence and,
227
,
246

defense of British soldiers from Boston Massacre,
148–149

defense of Hancock in
Liberty
trial,
113
,
118
,
119

on Hancock's Massacre Day speech,
180

on Otis,
9
,
99

Parliament's inquiry into conduct of,
197

portrait of,
129

on Sam Adams,
80
,
81
,
94
,
99

on Seider funeral,
137

on Stamp Act,
69–70

Adams, Samuel, Jr. (Sam),
86
,
246

amnesty for Stamp Act rioters and,
96–97

attack on Hutchinson home and,
79

biography,
40–41

Boston Massacre and,
140
,
142
,
144

on Boston Port Bill,
183

Boston Tea Party and,
4
,
5
,
7–8
,
166
,
167–168

British criticism of,
181

call to arms,
113

Committee of Correspondence and,
155–157

as Continental Congress delegate,
190
,
193
,
212–213
,
216
,
220–221

death of,
233

demand for resignation of tea agents,
160–162

diminished support for/power of,
114
,
147
,
149
,
151
,
152
,
231
,
232–233

effect of father's bankruptcy on,
18

fleeing Boston/British troops,
203
,
206–207

Green Dragon Tavern and,
80

on Grenville taxes,
51
,
52

in House of Representatives,
79
,
96

Hutchinson letters and,
159

“Journal of Transactions in Boston” and,
117
,
119

as lieutenant governor,
233

Mackintosh force and,
87–88

mob violence against Oliver property and,
73–74
,
75–76

on Otis beating,
127–128

Parliament's inquiry into conduct of,
197

petition to repeal Townshend Acts,
105

portrait of,
42

propaganda of,
41
,
42
,
98–99
,
122–123
,
133
,
155
,
174
,
183
,
212

prosecution for embezzlement,
100
,
105–106

relations with Hancock,
81
,
85
,
94
,
98–99
,
153
,
159
,
220–221

reorganization of radicals,
133

response to harbor closing,
191

Seider funeral and,
136–137

seizure of
Liberty
and,
110
,
111

Stamp Act protests and,
68

tactics of,
80–81

tea drinking and,
121

tea propaganda,
122–123
,
174

tea tax and,
134–135

treason charges against,
173
,
176
,
183
,
218–219

on Virginia's support for Massachusetts,
189

Adams, Samuel, Sr.,
16
,
17–18
,
41

American Indians, conflict with,
45–46

American Revenue Act (1764),
47
,
49–50
,
51
,
66

Amherst, Jeffrey,
33
,
34
,
45

Andrews, John,
201

Arms smuggling,
27
,
32–34
,
35

Arnold, Benedict,
213

Articles of Confederation,
237

Attucks, Crispus,
140

Avery, John,
73

Back Bay,
11

Barré, Isaac,
66–68
,
182

Barter,
13–14
,
66

commodity,
14–15

Currency Act and,
50

Battle of Bunker's Hill,
222
,
234

Battle of Lexington and Concord,
207
,
209–212

Bay of Fundy,
62

Beacon Hill,
16
,
57
,
201

Belcher, Jonathan,
17
,
19–20
,
24
,
25–26
,
48

Bernard, Francis

on American Revenue Act,
47

British troops in Boston and,
91
,
114

chief justice appointment and,
9
,
38

dissolution of House of Representatives,
112

flight of,
110
,
120

on Henry's resolutions against Stamp Act,
72

on “Journal of Transactions in Boston,”
117

Liberty
case and,
118

mob violence against Stamp Act and,
73
,
74
,
76–77

molasses smuggling and,
35
,
36–37

on petition to repeal Townshend Acts,
105

radical control of House of Representatives and,
79
,
96

Repeal Day and,
95

Bestes, Peter,
195

Black Regiment,
133–134
,
148

Board of Trade (London),
47
,
53
,
74
,
172

Boston

beginning of rebellion in,
1–4

British troops in,
115–118

convention in,
113–114

effects of harbor closing on,
190–192

evacuation of,
213
,
224–225

maps of,
12
,
82

merchants in (
see
Boston merchants
)

nonconsumption agreement and,
102–103

as port city/shipping center,
11–13

rebuilding of,
232
,
233

saints of,
22

withdrawal of troops from,
142

Boston Chronicle
(newspaper),
72
,
124–126
,
127

Boston Common,
22
,
57

British troops on,
115
,
116
,
117

restoration of,
154

Boston Evening Post
(newspaper),
22
,
47
,
193

Boston Gazette
(newspaper),
73

Adams in,
98
,
149
,
152
,
155

on Boston Massacre,
143–144

on Boston Massacre trial,
149

commemorating Massacre Day,
150

on domestic production in response to boycott,
103

on judges' salaries,
155

Patrick Henry's resolutions in,
72

on Repeal Day,
95

on Seider death,
137

“State of the Rights of Colonists” in,
157

on Tea Act,
159–160

on tea consumption,
122

Boston Massacre,
140–145

engraving,
143
,
144

trial of soldiers involved in,
148–149

Boston merchants,
23–24

attitude toward duties/taxes,
26–27

Harvard and,
24–25

nonimportation agreement and,
112

participation in Boston Tea Party,
170

profiting from wars,
19–22
,
28–29
,
31
,
32–34
,
65–66

Boston Neck,
11
,
86
,
192

Boston News-Letter
(newspaper),
14