On June 11, 1775, as the 16,000 American forces surrounded Boston, Dr. Joseph Warren – president of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress and chairman of the Committee of Safety turned thirty-four. His wife had died two years prior leaving him with four children ages one to nine. Though the children had been in the care of his mother and brother Sam at the family home in Roxbury, Warren made plans …
Francis Bernard was appointed by King George III as the governor of Massachusetts during the Stamp Act protest. Rather than quell the uprise in Boston, he intensified it with his enforcement of trade regulations and dissolution of the Massachusetts assembly because of their support of the Massachusetts Circular Letter (written by Samuel Adams). This letter protested the taxes being forced upon the colonists. It called for the boycott of …