On this day 250 years ago in Braintree, Massachusetts, Abigail Adams wrote to her friend Mercy Otis Warren about the British officers who had assaulted the Boston Watch a few days earlier (see my blog for January 21, 1775)
Thus are we to be in continual hazard and Jeopardy of our lives from a Set of dissolute unprincipald officers, and an Ignorant abandoned Soldiery who are made to believe that their Errant here is to Quell a Lawless Set of Rebels—who can think of it without the utmost indignation. “Is it not better to die the last of British freemen than live the first of British Slaves.”
Source: “Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 25 January 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-01-02-0120. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Adams Family Correspondence, vol. 1, December 1761 – May 1776, ed. Lyman H. Butterfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963, pp. 179–181.] accessed at https://founders.archives.gov/?q=%2225%20January%201775%22&s=1111311111&sa=&r=1&sr=
Also on this day in Exeter, New Hampshire, the Second Provincial Convention met and adopted the Continental Association and elected John Sullivan and John Langdon (the leaders of the raids on Fort William and Mary in the prior month) to the Second Continental Congress.
Source: https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/capture-of-fort-william-and-mary-1774/ (see also my blogs for December 14 & 15, 1774)
On that day in Winthrop, Massachusetts (now Manchester, Maine) the Town formed a militia company with Ichabod How as its Captain, and Elias Taylor, Sr. as a First Sergeant.
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