The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution

by James Henry Stark

[133] Lecky's Am. Rev. pp. 150, 151, 152.

[134] See p. 47, for further information concerning the Stamp Act and the Tea Tax.

[135] Francis Drake. "Tea Leaves." Introd. p. CXXVII.

[136] Richard Frothingham.

[137] Hosmer's Life of Hutchinson, p. 299.

[138] Francis S. Drake. Tea Leaves. Int. LXIII.

[139] Hancock's uncle made his large fortune by smuggling tea. See Hutchinson His., Vol. III., p. 297.

[140] Lecky's Am. Rev., pp. 154, 164, 165, 166.

[141] 14 George III., c. 19, 45.

[142] Letters of John Adams, Vol. 1., p. 13.