Word: samuel
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...came the so-called Boston Massacre, possibly instigated by Samuel Adams, and Hancock headed the citizens' committee that persuaded Acting Governor Thomas Hutchinson to remove most troops from Boston. Yet in 1772 Hancock was made captain of the Independent Company of Cadets, also known as the "Governor's Own." He outfitted himself and his men with bright new uniforms, and he liked to appear on horseback at the head of his troop on the King's birthday. Then, on the fourth anniversary of the Boston Massacre, he publicly denounced the British with Ciceronian fervor: "Ye dark, designing...
...Club, Hancock drank and debated with Attorney James Otis Jr., who first argued in court in 1761 against the constitutionality of general search warrants known as writs of assistance (John Adams believes that "American independence was then and there born"). At a Masonic lodge, Hancock encountered both Otis and Samuel Adams, an inept businessman but master polemicist and organizer of the Sons of Liberty. These three soon became leaders in the resistance to the Stamp Act. Declared Hancock: "I will not be a slave. I have a right to the liberties and privileges of the English Constitution...
...wealth paid for the enthusiasm of the waterfront bravos who rallied round the Rebel leaders. On one occasion, he provided ? 1,000 for the care and feeding of the mob. In 1766 Hancock won a seat in the state legislature as the protégé of Samuel Adams, who had been elected the previous year (Otis had been there since 1761). From then on, his political star kept rising...
...March 5. Confrontation between Boston waterfront crowd and British soldiers. Five in crowd are killed. Samuel Adams, Paul Revere and other patriotic radicals denounce the troops for "Massacre...
Anglican churchmen have been special targets for abuse. New York's Reverend Samuel Seabury once tried to argue the case for Loyalism in his Letters of a Westchester Farmer ("If I must be enslaved, let it be by a KING at least, and not by a parcel of upstart, lawless Committeemen. If I must be devoured, let me be devoured by the jaws of a lion, and not gnawed to death by rats and vermine"). Instead of being devoured, he was kidnaped and imprisoned for a month by a marauding band of Connecticut Patriots...