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Samuel Adams: Boston's Radical Revolutionary
Footnotes:
[1] John Adams, Diary of John Adams, December 23,
[2] William V. Wells, The Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams (Boston: Little Brown and Co., )
[3] Harry Clinton Green and Mary Wolcott Green, Wives of the Signers: the Women Behind the Declaration of Independence (Wallbuilder Press, ).
[4] Samuel Adams, To the Representatives of Boston, May 24, The Writings of Samuel Adams Vol I , collected and edited by Harry Alonzo Cushing (G.P. Putnum, ) 5.
[5] John Winthrop, John A Model of Christian Charity,
[6]Boston Gazette, månad 5,
[7] Samuel Eliot Morison, Oxford History of the American People (New York: Oxford University Press, )
[8]Boston Evening Post, April 10,
[9]Boston Gazette, January 8,
[10] Samuel Adams to Dennys De Berdt, November 16,
[11] Thomas Hutchinson to William Dalrymple, March 6,
[12] Samuel Adams to Arthur Lee, September 27,
[13]Boston Gazette, November 25,
[14]B • Born as the son of a church deacon in , Samuel Adams understood from a young age the authority private citizens could hold over politics once properly mobilized. Adams acquired something of a historical reputation—in his own time no less—as a rabble-rouser and propagandist for the independence movement, especially in comparison to his second cousin John, the future president. But those accusations tend to obscure his nature as an astute political thinker and a tireless activist. Adams' father, also named Samuel, frequently used his position as preacher to organize large numbers of associates into groups to lobby local Boston politicians and officials on specific issues, with young Sam frequently accompanying him. At the age of fourteen, Adams entered Harvard, ostensibly to study theology and later take up his father's career, but life in college also exposed him to the ideas of the Enlightenment philosop • By November 28, the crisis was now on the doorstep of Boston. The first tea ship to arrive was the Dartmouth owned by the Rotch family. The ship arrived with crates of East India Company tea. Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty now had a deadline. According to customs law, the ship had only twenty days to unload its cargo. The twentieth day would be December 17, Still two more ships arrived. On December 2, the Eleanor arrived with crates, and on December 15, the Beaver had joined the other two ships at Griffin’s Wharf. Samuel Adams took the lead in negotiating with ship owners, and the customs officials for the port of Boston. On December 3, Adams ordered John Rowe, the owner of the Eleanor to unload his other cargo, but not the tea. On December 11, Adams and the Boston Committee of Correspondence ordered Francis Rotch, the owner of the Dartmouth and Beaver, to set sail for London with the East India Company te
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The Boston Tea Party Ships Arrive in Griffin’s Wharf