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Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 40 6 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition. 12 0 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 9 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 8 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 3, 1860., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 0 Browse Search
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown 5 1 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1863., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 43: (search)
uary, 1770. He has now thrown down the reins into the hands of the people, cried the Customs' Commissioners of Hutchinson, and he can never recover them. Dr. Cooper to Gov. Pownall, 30 January, 1770. I am a ruined man, said he despondingly to Phillips. I humbly hope, thus he wrote to those who dealt out offices in London, that a single error in judgment will not cancel more than thirty years laborious Chap. XLIII.} 1770. Jan. and disinterested services in support of government. He looked turally and unaffectedly into the attitude of highest dignity, and spoke as if the hopes of humanity were dependent on his words. The Town, after deliberation, raised a new and smaller Committee, composed of Samuel Adams, Hancock, Molineux, William Phillips, Warren, Henshaw and Pemberton, to bear their final message. They found the Lieutenant Governor surrounded by the Council and by the highest officers of the British Army and Chap. XLIII.} 1770. March Navy on the Station. Hutchinson ha
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 48: (search)
ing of each town a free communication of their sentiments on this subject. The end in view was a general Confederacy against the authority of Parliament; the towns of the Province were to begin; the Assembly to confirm their doings and invite the other Colonies to join. Hutchinson to a Friend in England, I suppose Sir Francis Bernard, 14 June, 1773. I had the fullest evidence, &c. &c. The motion was readily adopted; but it was difficult to raise the Committee. Cushing, Hancock, and Phillips, three of the four Representatives of Boston, S. Cooper to B. Franklin, 15 March, 1773; Franklin, VIII. 37; Hutchinson to John Pownall, 19 April, 1773; Boston Gazette, 918, 2, 2, and other letters. pleaded private business and refused to Chap. XLVIII.} 1772. Nov. serve; so did Scollay and Austin, two of the Selectmen. The name of James Otis who was now but a wreck of himself, appears first on the list; as a tribute to former services. The two most important members were Samuel Adams
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 50: (search)
and place as witnesses. Handbills posted up the 2d and 3d of November, 1773. On the appointed day, a large flag was hung out on the pole at Liberty Tree; the bells in the Meetinghouses were rung from eleven till noon. Adams, Hancock and Phillips, three of the four Representatives of the town of Boston, the Selectmen, and William Cooper the Town Clerk, Abstract of the Correspondence from America, made by Thurlow and Wedderburn. with about five hundred more, gathered round the spot. Ahe passages out of the harbor. At the same time orders were given by the Governor to load guns at the Castle, so that no vessel, except coasters, might go to sea without a permit. He had no thought of what was to happen; the wealth of Hancock, Phillips, Rowe, Dennie, and so many other men of property, seemed to him a security against violence; Hutchinson to Mauduit, Dec. 1773; to——, 30 Dec. 1773; to Sir F. Bernard, 1 Jan. 1774. and he flattered himself, Hutchinson to Lord Dartmouth, 14 D
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 51: (search)
made the request that further despatches might be waited for. Superior to injury, Franklin, or as Rockingham called him, the magnanimous old man, Albemarle, II. 302. still sought for conciliation, and seizing the moment when he was sure of all sympathies, he wrote to his constituents to begin the work, by making compensation to the East India Company before any compulsive mea- Chap LI.} 1774. Feb. sures were thought of. Franklin to Thomas Cushing, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, William Phillips. Ms. letter in my possession. But events were to proceed as they had been ordered. Various measures were talked of for altering the Constitution of the Government in Massachusetts, and for prosecuting individuals. The opinion in town was very general, that America would submit; that Government was taken by surprise when they repealed the Stamp Act, and that all might be recovered. Shelburne to Chatham, Chat. Corr. IV. 324. The King was obstinate, had no one near him to explai