Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution Part 27

John Warren writes of retrieving his brother's body from Breed's Hill in his journal, which is quoted in Edward Warren's Life of John Warren, p. 74. John Rowe writes of being insulted at Joseph Warren's funeral in his Diary, p. 307. Clifford s.h.i.+pton details the demise of Benjamin Church in SHG, 13:39597. A. W. H. Eaton in The Famous Mather Byles writes about the minister losing his congregation in 1776; he recounts Byles's comment about being ruled by "one tyrant 3,000 miles away" instead of "3,000 tyrants not a mile away" (pp. 14647), as well as Byles's pun about his "observe-a-Tory" (p. 173). Albert Mathews in "Joyce, Junior" quotes from the advertis.e.m.e.nt in the March 17, 1777, Boston Gazette in which Joyce Jr. refers to taking action against the "shameless bra.s.s-faced Tories who have the audaciousness to remain" (p. 94). Abigail Adams describes Joyce Junior's carting of the loyalists across the town line in an April 20, 1777, letter in Taylor, Founding Families. Was.h.i.+ngton's General Orders forbidding the observance of "that ridiculous and childish custom of burning the effigy of the Pope" can be found in PGW, 2:300. Esther Forbes in Paul Revere cites Revere's April 1777 letter to John Lamb in which he writes, "I find but few of the Sons of Liberty in the army" (p. 323). Ruth Bloch in Visionary Republic cites Thomas Paine's claim that the "birthday of a new world is at hand" (p. 75). J. L. Bell in his July 4, 2007, Boston 1775 blog entry, "Sheriff Greenleaf and Col. Crafts Read the Declaration," cites Greenleaf's son's account of his father and Crafts declaiming the Declaration of Independence, http://boston1775.blogspot.com/2007/07/sheriff-greenleaf-and-col-crafts-read.html. Abigail Adams's account of the event is in a July 21, 1776, letter to John Adams in Taylor, Founding Families.

Epilogue-Character Alone

John Quincy Adams's account of what he did on June 17, 1843, can be found in his Diary at the MHS; my thanks to Mike Hill for providing me with a transcript. My account of the festivities surrounding the sixty-eighth anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill is based on articles in the June 19, 1843, issue of the Daily Atlas and the June 22, 1843, issue of the Emanc.i.p.ator and Free American. My account of John Quincy Adams's late career in the U.S. House of Representatives is based largely on Paul Nagel's John Quincy Adams, in which he details Quincy's role in the Amistad trial (pp. 37980) and the House censure trial (pp. 386), in which Nagel quotes the description of Quincy as "the acutest, the astutest, the archest enemy of Southern slavery that ever existed." Nagel cites Quincy's claim that "the world will retire from me before I shall retire from the world" (p. 381). Concerning Joseph Warren's saving Quincy's forefinger from amputation, Nagel writes, "JQA often considered how brief his diary and letters might have been if his writing hand had been maimed" (p. 8). Abigail Adams's account of seeing Trumbull's painting The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, in which she refers to "character alone," is in a March 4, 1786, letter to Elizabeth Smith Shaw in Adams Family Correspondence, 7:82. She writes of curbing the "unlimited power" a husband has over a wife and of how "the pa.s.sion of liberty cannot be equally strong" in a slaveholder in a March 31, 1776, letter to John Adams, in Adams Family Correspondence, 1:56970. Paul Nagel cites John Quincy Adams's insistence that "My life must be militant to its close" in John Quincy Adams, p. 328. As Nagel writes in his biography, John Quincy Adams died on February 23, 1848, from the effects of a stroke he suffered while rising to speak on the House floor.

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