Note 245 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

Sam. Adams seems to have drafted this reply, with aid on law-points from John Adams, the latter being almost the exclusive author of the reply of the House to the second speech of the governor. Wells thinks Hawley may have had a hand in these papers. Cf. Quincy's Quincy, p. 113; Life, etc., of John Adams, i. 118-133, ii. 310; Wells's Sam. Adams, ii. 29, 31, 41; Tudor's Otis, p. 410; Bradford's Mass. State Papers, 336, 399; Bancroft, orig. ed., vi. 446-453; Niles's Principles (1876 ed., pp. 79, 87); Speeches of his Excellency, with the answers of his Majesty's Council and the House of Representatives (Boston, 1773). A meeting of the town of Boston was held in Faneuil Hall, March 8, 1773, "to vindicate the town from the gross misrepresentations of his Excellency's message to both Houses", and its proceedings were circulated in broadside.