Note 203 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

Hutchinson's side of the story is in his History, iii. 189. At a large town meeting, over which Otis presided, and at which no direct reference was made to the riots, the people recapitulated grievances, and petitioned (Rec. Com. Rept., xvi. 254) the governor to order the "Romney" away from the harbor. Hutchinson (iii. App. J and K) prints the address and the instructions which were given to their representatives. (Cf. John Adams's Works, iii. 501.) The examination of Robert Hallowell, controller of the port, is in the Lee MSS. (H. C. library), i. no. 40.. Johnson (Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., xlix. 301) speaks of the effect in England. See the general historians, and also special reports in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1868, p. 402; 1869, p. 452; and also 1883, p. 404, for Hancock's spirit of challenge in naming a sloop, the next year, the "Rising Liberty."