[90] See Memoirs of the Life of the late Charles Lee, Esq., published in London in 1793, p. 323.
[91] It is scarcely necessary to point out the extravagance of this invective. It sounds very like Arthur Lee.
[92] Captain John Derby had just returned from his trip to Great Britain with the first news of the affair at Concord.
[93] This alludes to Peyton Randolph, who was suddenly called home to Virginia, on the 24th of May, leaving his place vacant. John Hancock was chosen to fill it. Mr. Randolph did return soon after, and died at Philadelphia in October.
[94] Anthony Wibird, the pastor of the parish of which Mr. Adams was a member.
[95] Mrs. Samuel Adams.
56. John Adams.
Philadelphia, 30 July, 1775.
This letter is intended to go by my friend Mr. William Barrell, whom I believe you have seen in Boston. If he calls at our house you will please to receive him complaisantly and thank him for your present of pins. I have been treated by him with great civility both at this and the former Congress.