Written from Boston between 1768 and 1769 by Thomas Hutchinson, Andrew Oliver and others, these private letters describe the Liberty riot over John Hancock’s seized sloop, the flight of the customs commissioners and the temper of the Massachusetts populace. Their authors urged firmer measures from London, and when the letters were printed in 1773 they caused a sensation.
A key primary source for the coming of the American Revolution, the documents behind the Hutchinson affair. Download the free EPUB.