American Tempest (45 page)

Freemasons,
38
,
62
,
79–80
,
111

French and Indian War,
27
,
29–31
,
62–64

British war debt from,
2
,
46

Frontiersmen, natural rights and,
48

“Fruits of Arbitrary Power, or The Bloody Massacre in King Street” (Pelham),
143
,
144

Gage, Thomas,
53

Church and,
234

evacuation of Boston,
213

as governor of Massachusetts,
182–183
,
190
,
191

Hancock House and,
203

martial law in Boston and,
218

preparation for armed conflict,
192
,
203
,
205–206

relations with Hancock,
193–194
,
202

reports of Battle of Lexington to,
210

troops in Boston and,
110
,
112
,
115–116
,
137

warrants for Hancock and Adams and,
218–219

Gailer, George,
126

Galloway, Joseph,
175
,
176

General Court (Massachusetts),
16
,
24
,
112
,
144
,
152
,
183

George II (king),
19

George III,
152–153
,
182
,
197
,
223
,
228

Georgia,
19
,
30
,
129
,
190
,
192
,
215
,
223
,
245

Gibbon, Edward,
238

Gill, John,
72
,
122
,
157

Governor's Council (Massachusetts),
16
,
63–64
,
107
,
120
,
154

Gray, Samuel,
139
,
140

Great War for Empire,
27

Green Dragon Tavern,
79–80
,
81
,
111

Grenville, George

effigies of,
86

Otis and,
84–85

Stamp Act and,
52–53
,
68
,
91–92

tax proposals,
8
,
43
,
46–47
,
49–50

Griffin's Wharf,
5
,
6
,
7
,
12
,
164
,
165

Grosvenor
(ship),
175

Hancock, John (I),
55

Hancock, John (II),
55

Hancock, John (III)

adoption by Thomas Hancock,
56–57

on appointment of Washington as commander in chief,
221–222

arrest for smuggling,
118–119

attack on Andrew Oliver and,
76

Boston Massacre and,
141
,
142

in Boston merchant banking milieu,
61–62

Boston Tea Party and,
4
,
166
,
170
,
171
,
173

boycotts and,
85–86
,
88–89
,
102
,
105
,
120–121

childhood with Thomas Hancock,
60–61

collection of debt against
Boston Chronicle,
127

Committee of Correspondence and,
156–157

confrontation with customs officials,
106–107

as Continental Congress delegate/leader,
196
,
212–213
,
215–218
,
231
,
232

Corps of Cadets and,
152–154
,
190

demand for resignation of tea agents,
160–161

on economic depression post-Seven Years' War,
66

English tea shipping and,
123
,
124–126

fleeing Boston/British troops,
203
,
206–207

Harvard and,
26
,
61
,
98
,
159

as leader of American Revolution,
178–180
,
196

as leader of radicals,
157
,
158–159

Liberty
seizure and,
109–111

Liberty
trial and,
113

Massacre Day speech,
177–180

merchant business of,
64
,
65
,
98
,
109–111
,
123
,
124–126

Olive Branch Petition and,
222

Parliament's inquiry into conduct of,
197

petition to repeal Townshend Acts,
105

philanthropy of,
22
,
98
,
99–100
,
154–155

political offices of,
100
,
105
,
107
,
120
,
147
,
151
,
190
,
232
,
235–236

political power of,
98
,
99

popularity of,
87–88
,
155

portrait of,
67

preparation for revolution and,
193–194

as president of First Provincial Congress,
194

as President under Articles of Confederation,
232

reconciliation with Hutchinson,
151–152

relations with Gage,
193–194

relations with Otis,
40

relations with Sam Adams,
81
,
94
,
106
,
159
,
220–221

Repeal Day and,
94–95
,
98

response to increasing radicalism in Boston,
79–80

at Second Provincial Congress,
202–203

on Stamp Act,
53
,
68
,
76
,
82

support for General Court removal,
144

tea drinking and,
121

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

Union Feast and,
87

William Franklin and,
226–227

Hancock, Lydia,
60

Hancock, Mary,
56–57

Hancock, Nathaniel,
24

Hancock, Thomas,
13
,
15
,
16

adoption of nephew John,
56–57

biography,
55–56

as British imperialist,
62

death of,
64

on gardens,
58

home of,
57–60

military procurement and,
19
,
20
,
22
,
62–64

Otis and,
40

philanthropy of,
22

portrait of,
21

Hancock House,
57–60
,
116

attacks on,
78
,
201–202

British occupation of,
214

engraving of interior,
59

painting of,
58

Hancock Wharf,
16
,
106

Harrison, Benjamin,
193
,
215
,
216

Harvard College,
24–25

engraving of,
26

graduation ranking at,
18

Hancock and,
26
,
61
,
98
,
159

Hancock Professor of Oriental Languages,
98

Hatfield (Massachusetts),
114

Hayley
(ship),
161

Henry, Patrick,
112
,
193

on American Constitution,
240

on exiled Loyalists,
239–240

“liberty-or-death” speech,
199–201
,
202

Parliament's inquiry into conduct of,
197

portrait of,
71
,
199

Quebec Act and,
187
,
188

Stamp Act protest and,
70–72

taxation of Virginians and,
236

Henry VIII (king),
119

Hillsborough, Wills Hill,
105
,
149

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
(Gibbon),
238

History of the Province of Massachusetts
(Hutchinson),
238

Holbrook, Felix,
195

House of Hancock,
14
,
16
,
56
,
61
,
64

House of Representatives (Massachusetts),
79
,
96
,
112
,
120
,
152

Howe, William,
60
,
224

Hutchinson, Anne,
24

Hutchinson, Elisha,
38
,
158
,
160
,
163

Hutchinson, Peggy,
238

Hutchinson, Thomas, Jr.,
23–24
,
62

appointment as chief justice,
8–9
,
37

attack on home of,
77–78

attempts to reconcile Britain and colonies,
184–185
,
196–197
,
198

on Bernard and molasses smuggling,
36
,
37

biography,
37–38

Boston Massacre and,
141
,
144

on Boston Port Bill,
185

on Boston Tea Party,
169
,
170

Committee of Correspondence and,
156
,
157

on death of Andrew Oliver,
177

demand for resignation of tea agents and,
161

exile and death of,
238

gifts to church,
22

as governor,
120
,
137–139
,
182–183

Hutchinson-Oliver letters,
159

as merchant,
16

on mob violence,
2
,
74
,
75
,
77
,
127

Otis and,
84–85

portrait of,
39

on rebels,
117

relations with Hancock,
98
,
120
,
151–154

response to petition on tea tax,
134–135

response to tea ban,
164

Sam Adams and,
41

on state of Massachusetts following Boston Massacre trial,
149

on tea boycott,
124

on Thomas Hancock,
57

uniting colonies and,
30
,
38

writ of assistance case and,
39–40

Hutchinson, Thomas, Sr.,
23–24

Hutchinson, Thomas (III),
38
,
158
,
160
,
163
,
184

Hutchinson, William (Billy),
238

Import duties.
See
Taxes

Intercolonial Committee of Correspondence,
156

Intercolonial congress,
188
,
190

Stamp Act and,
72
,
82–84

See also
Continental Congress

International trade,
15

Jay, John,
221

Jefferson, Thomas

as Congressional delegate/leader,
199
,
216
,
231

Declaration of Independence and,
227–228
,
246

portrait of,
217

Jenkins, Robert,
19

Johnson, Samuel,
195

Johnson, William,
53