Note 211 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

The general belief is that the author of this defence was Samuel Adams (Wells, i. 282; Bancroft, vi. 312), though it has been ascribed to William Cooper, to James Otis, and to Otis and Adams combined. Cf. Barry's Mass., ii. 399; Franklin, viii. 459; Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., i. 485; Mem. Hist. Boston, iii. p.28; Carter-Brown, iii. nos. 1,643, 1,644, 1,716. See Report as spread on the Town Records, in Rec. Com. Rept., xvi. p. 303.