Samuel Adams
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Samuel Adams was an American statesman, political philosopher, and a Founding Father. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, a sig
In this c. 1772 portrait, Adams points at the Massachusetts Charter, which he viewed as a constitution that protected the peoples' rights.
While at Harvard University, Adams boarded at Massachusetts Hall.
The Old South Meeting House (1968 photo shown) was Adams's church. During the crisis with Great Britain, mass meetings were held here that were too large for Faneuil Hall.
Anne Whitney, Samuel Adams, bronze and granite statue, 1880, located in front of Faneuil Hall, which was the home of the Boston Town Meeting
Hutchinson letters affair
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The Hutchinson letters affair was an incident that increased tensions between the colonists of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and the British government prior to the American Revolution.
Political cartoon from 1774 by Paul Revere, depicting Death attacking Governor Thomas Hutchinson.
Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay Thomas Hutchinson, the author of some of the inflammatory letters
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin by David Martin, 1767
Andrew Oliver, portrait by John Singleton Copley, c. 1758