...ird, shall not oblige us to submit to the Stamp Act. We will die, declared even the sober-minded, we will die upon the place first. We have sixty thousand fighting-men in this colony alone, wrote Mayhew . And we will spend our last blood in the cause, repeated his townsmen. Hutchinson directed the colonel of the militia to beat an alarm. My drummers, said he, are in the mob. With the sheriff...