Quincy, Sam Jr.
Quincy, Samuel
at Harvard
house destroyed by looters
legal training
mission to England, and self-exile
Quincy, Sarah (m. Greenleaf)
Quincy, Thomas
Quincy family
Randolph, Peyton
Raymond, Sir Robert
reading habit of colonists
rebellion
reconciliation, no support for
Redcoats, march out of Boston
Reed, Joseph
Reeve, Tapping
religion
freedom of
role of, in Braintree
Revere, Paul
revolution
Rhode Island
Rice, Mrs.
Richards, Owen
Richardson, Ebenezer
Richmond, Duke of
rights
American
to Life, Liberty and Property
of private judgment
riot, preventing
Rockingham, Lord
Rodney, Caesar
Romney (warship)
Rose (frigate) case
Rotch, Francis
Rowe, Hannah
Rowe, John
Roxbury, Mass.
Royal Fusiliers
rum
Rutledge, John
Sabbath (Sunday)
Safety Committee (Boston)
St. Andrew’s Lodge
Salem, Mass.
saltpeter, recipe for
salvation by grace alone
sanctity of the home
Savile, Sir George
schools
Scott, Captain
Scott, James
seal, American
Seider, Christopher
funeral of
separation
sermons
Seven Years’ War
Sewall, Jonathan
end of friendship with John Hancock
exile in London
later life
Sewall, Jonathan Jr.
Sewall, Stephen
Sewall/Sewell name
Sewell, Rev. Samuel
Shaw, John
Shayler, Captain
Shelburne, Lord
Shepherd, Anne (m. Quincy)
Sherman, Roger
shipowners
Skimmer, John
slavery
and democratic institutions
Jefferson’s text on
opposition to
support for
slaves
freedom offered to
freedom suits of
freeing of
ownership of
slave trade
ban on
smallpox
Smith, Abigail (m. Adams)
letters to John
letters to Mercy
wooed by John
later life
Smith, Elizabeth (Betsy) (m. Shaw)
Smith, Isaac
Smith, John
Smith, Mary (m. Cranch)
Smith, Richard
Smith, Rev. William
smuggling
combatting of
social class
Sons of Liberty
South, the (colonies)
patriots of
South Carolina
South Parish Church, Braintree
Spada (dog)
Spain
Spear, John
spies
Stamp Act of 1765
illegally promulgated by Parliament
opposition to the
petitions to repeal
provoking riots
repeal by Parliament
stamps
arrival from Britain
distributors and sellers of
Standish, Miles
state constitutions
Stirling, Lord
Stockton, Richard
Storer, Ebenezer
Story, William
Sturgis, Hannah (m. Quincy)
Suffolk County, Mass.
Suffolk County Bar Association, volunteer brigade of
Suffolk Resolves
Sugar Act (1764)
Tacitus
taxation
on colonists
without representation
taxes, refusal to pay
tea
boycott of
burned
landing of, opposed
shipments of 1773
tax on
thrown overboard
Tea Act of 1773
tea drinking
Tea Party
nonviolent execution of
temperance movement
Thacher, Oxenbridge
Thanksgiving Day proclamation
theatre, in England
“there never was a good war or a bad peace”
Third Parish Church of Braintree
Thomas, Isaiah
Thomas (ship)
Thomas Hancock and Company
Thomson, Charles
Thoughts on Government (Lee)
tippling
town meetings, prohibitions against
Townshend, Charles
Townshend Acts
letter condemning
repealed
resistance to
scope of
treason
charges of
petition to Parliament considered to be
protests against governor considered to be
Suffolk Resolves condemned as
Tea Party participants charged with
Treason Act
Trott, George
Trumbull, John
Tudor, William
Tufts (aunt of Abigail Smith Adams)
Tyler, Joseph
Tyng, William John
tyranny
Unity (ship)
Vasall, John
Virginia
House of Burgesses
Waldron, Elizabeth (m. Quincy)
Walpole, Horace
war
need for
preparations for
War of the Austrian Succession
warrants
Warren, Eben
Warren, James
Warren, John
Warren, Dr. Joseph
body
death threats to
killed in battle
oration of, dressed in a toga
Washington, George
Washington, Martha
“We hold these truths to be self-evident”
Wendell, Elizabeth (m. Quincy)
West Indies
Weymouth, Mass.
Wheatley, Phillis
Wheatley family
Wheelwright, John
Wheelwright, Nathaniel
Whigs
White, Hugh
Whitefield, George
Wibird, Rev. Anthony
Widmer, Kemble
William III
Wilmot, George
Wilson, James
Winthrop, Gov. John
Wollaston, Richard
women
boycotting British goods
rights of
Worcester, Mass.
working class
wounded soldiers, deaths of, in hospitals and prisons
writs of assistance
Wyman, Amos
Young, Dr. Thomas
About the Author
NINA SANKOVITCH is the author of several nonfiction books, most recently The Lowells of Massachusetts. She has written for The New York Times, been a contributing blogger The Huffington Post, and was formerly a judge for the Book-of-the-Month Club. A graduate of Tufts University and Harvard Law School, Sankovitch grew up in Evanston, Illinois, and currently lives in Connecticut with her family. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Map of Boston and Environs, 1700s
Map of Boston Before the Revolution
Map of Philadelphia, 1774–1776
Map of the Village of Braintree During the Time of American Rebels
The Families of Braintree
PART ONE
Tinder (1744–1764)
Prologue: A Village Mourns
1 Founding a Village
2 The Education of Boys
3 Worldly Goods, Heavenly Debates
4 The Education of Girls
5 Changing Fortunes
6 Colonial Enthusiasms
PART TWO
Spark (1765–1773)
7 The Mobs of Boston
8 Warmest Lovers of Liberty
9 A Watchful Spirit
10 The Arrival of Troops
11 Portents of a Comet
12 Pressing Forward
13 Mayhem and Massacre
14 On Trial
15 Retreat to Braintree
16 Patriots Assemble
17 Branching Out
18 Anxiety and Apprehensions
19 Tea, That Baneful Weed
PART THREE
Flame (1774–1776)
20 Rocks and Quicksands on Every Side
21 Punishment and Indignation
22 Grand Object of Their View
23 In the Cause of Liberty
24 On This Island, This England
25 Sharpening Quills and Swords
26 Ship in a Storm
27 Lexington and Concord
28 Clouds over Boston
29 The Unhappy Contest
30 Complications of Evil and Misfortune
31 Surrender of Boston
32 Debating Separation
33 The Signature of Independence
Epilogue: Friends to Mankind
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Also by Nina Sankovitch
Copyright
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