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on 12/17/1773
"The die is cast. The people have passed the river and cut away the bridge. Last night three cargoes of tea were emptied into the harbor. This is the grandest event which has ever yet happened since the controversy with Britain opened."
on 1/18/1773
"I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if it happens in our day; if not, let us transmit to our descendants, together with our slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot and an abhorrence of slavery."
on 10/20/1773
"Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families."
in 1773
"Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country, above all others, fond of liberty--that in such an age and in such a country we find men professing a religion the most humane, mild, gentle and generous, adopting a principle as repugnant to humanity as it is inconsistent with the Bible, and destructive to liberty?"
in 1773
No. 1 A map of the lands belonging to the estate of the late Sir Peter Warren lying at Greenwich in the outward of the city of New York
in 1773
Boston, April 9, 1773. Circular letter to the committees of other towns, communicating an extract of a letter from a Gentleman of distinction in Virginia, dated Mar. 14, 1773, with the resolutions of the House of Burgesses. We congratulate you upon th
