Note 173 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

Cf. Bancroft (original ed., ii. 353; vi. 9); Adams's Works (x. 236); Dawson's Sons of Liberty in N. Y. (p. 42); Barry's Mass. (ii. 252-255); Scott's Development of Constitutional Liberty (pp. 189-214). In 1764 courts of vice-admiralty for British America had been established (Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xvii. 291), and the sugar act passed, placing a duty on molasses, etc.,—a modification of the act of 1733. "I know not", wrote John Adams in 1818, "why we should blush to confess that molasses was an essential ingredient in American independence." John Adams's Works, x. 345.