“Delenda est Bostonia:” A Continental Congress, Paul Revere Rides, and the First Shot at Lexington

Episode 5

“A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774 – 1875.” Journals of the Continental Congress, Volume 1. Library of Congress. Accessed at: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=lljc&fileName=001/lljc001.db&recNum=45.

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“Association of Members of the Late House of Burgesses, 27 May 1774.” Founders Online, National Archives. Accessed at: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-01-02-0083. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 1, 1760–1776, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950, pp. 107–109.]

“At a Meeting of the Delegates of Every Town and District in the County of Suffolk, on Tuesday the Sixth of September, at the House of Mr. Richard Woodward of Dedham, and by the Adjournment at the house of Mr. Daniel Vose of Milton, on Friday the Ninth…Joseph Palmer, Esq; being  chosen Moderator, and William Thompson, Esq; Clerk, a Committee was chosen to bring in a Report to the Convention, and the following being several Times read and put Paragraph by Paragraph, was UNANIMOUSLY voted, Viz.” Supplement to the Massachusetts-Gazette, September 15, 1774. Accessed at: https://www.masshist.org/database/viewer.php?item_id=696&pid=2.

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Bell, James B. A War of Religion: Dissenters, Anglicans, and the American Revolution. London: Palgrave Macmillian UK, 2008.

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Byron, Matthew A. “Thomas Gage.” George Washington’s Mount Vernon. Accessed at: https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/thomas-gage/.

“Carpenter’s Hall.” C-Span. Accessed at: https://www.c-span.org/video/?424495-2/carpenters-hall.

Cecere, Michael. “George Washington Makes the Case for a Boycott.” Journal of the American Revolution. June 24, 2014. Accessed at: https://allthingsliberty.com/2014/06/george-washington-makes-the-case-for-a-boycott/.

Crawford, Mary Caroline. Old Boston Days & Ways: From the Dawn of the Revolution Until the Town Became a City. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1924. 

Commager, Henry Steele and Richard B. Morris, editors. The Spirit of ’Seventy-Six: The Story of the American Revolution as Told by Participants. Edison, NJ: Castle Books, 1967.

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Daigler, Kenneth A. Spies, Patriots, and Traitors: American Intelligence in the Revolutionary War. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2014.

“Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, October 14, 1774.” The Avalon Project. Accessed at: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/resolves.asp.

Dunmore, Lord. “Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation (1775).” Encyclopedia Virginia: Virginia Humanities. Accessed at: https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/lord-dunmores-proclamation-1775/.

Eisenhurth, Caroline. “The Coercive (Intolerable) Acts of 1774.” George Washington’s Mount Vernon. Accessed at: https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/the-coercive-intolerable-acts-of-1774/#:~:text=The%20Coercive%20Acts%20of%201774,for%20the%20Boston%20Tea%20Party.&text=Parliament%20passed%20the%20bill%20on,assent%20on%20May%2020th.

Ellis, Joseph J. The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2021.

First Continental Congress. “‘’Declarations and Resolves’ (October 14, 1774),” in American History Through its Greatest Speeches: A Documentary History of the United States, 118 - 120. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, LLC., 2017.

Foner, Eric. Give Me Liberty! An American History, 4th edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2014. 

“Galloway, Joseph.” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 – Present. History, Arts & Archives: United States House of Representatives. Accessed at: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000026.

Galloway, Joseph. “Speech to the Continental Congress” (September 28, 1774), in American History Through its Greatest Speeches: A Documentary History of the United States, 115 – 118. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, LLC., 2017. 

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Jefferson, Thomas. A Summary View of the Rights of British America: Set Forth in Some Resolutions Intended for the Inspection of the Present Delegates of the People of Virginia, Now in Convention. Williamsburg: Clementina Rind, 1774. Accessed at: https://www.wdl.org/en/item/117/view/1/1/.

Jefferson, Thomas. “A Summary of the Rights of British America.” The Avalon Project. Accessed at: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/jeffsumm.asp.

Johnson, Samuel. “Taxation No Tyranny: An Answer to the Resolution and Address of the American Colonies,” in The Words of Samuel Johnson. New York: Pafraets & Company, 1913. Accessed at: https://www.samueljohnson.com/tnt.html.

“Joseph Galloway, Plan of Union.” Chapter 7, Document 3. Accessed at: http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch7s3.html.

“Journals of the Continental Congress - The Articles of Association; October 20, 1774.” The Avalon Project. Accessed at: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/contcong_10-20-74.asp.

Galloway, Joseph and John Wesley. Reflections on the Rise and Progress of the American Rebellion. London: J. Paramore, 1780. 

Greene, Jack P., editor. Colonies to Nation, 1763 - 1789: A Documentary History of the American Revolution. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1975.

Gruber, Kate Egner. “The Gunpowder Incident.” American Battlefield Trust. Accessed at: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/gunpowder-incident.

Hansard, T.C. The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803, Vol 17. Great Britain, 1813. 

Horan, Katherine. “First Continental Congress.” George Washington’s Mount Vernon. Accessed at: https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/first-continental-congress/#:~:text=Georgia%20was%20the%20only%20colony,want%20to%20jeopardize%20British%20assistance.

Kidd, Thomas S. Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots. New York: Perseus Books, 2011. 

Knollenberg, Bernhard. Growth of the American Revolution: 1766 - 1775. Carmel, IN: Liberty Fund, 2003.

Leehey, Patrick M. “The Real Story of Paul Revere’s Ride.” Biography. Accessed at: https://www.biography.com/news/paul-reveres-ride-facts.

“Leslie’s Retreat, or how the Revolutionary War almost began in Salem, February 26, 1775.” Historic Ipswich: On the Massachusetts North Shore. Accessed at: https://historicipswich.org/2019/02/13/leslies-retreat-or-how-the-revolutionary-war-almost-began-in-salem/.

“Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania.” Delaware.gov. Accessed at: https://history.delaware.gov/jdp_main/dickinsonletters/pennsylvania-farmer-letters/.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. “Paul Revere’s Ride.” Poets.org. Accessed at: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/paul-reveres-ride.

McBurney, Christian. “The First Efforts to Limit the African Slave Trade Arise in the American Revolution: Part 3 of 3, Congress Bans the African Slave Trade.” Journal of the American Revolution, September 15, 2020. Accessed at: https://allthingsliberty.com/2020/09/the-first-efforts-to-limit-the-african-slave-trade-arise-in-the-american-revolution-part-3-of-3-congress-bans-the-african-slave-trade.

McCullough, David. John Adams. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.

McCurry, Allan J. “The North Government and the Outbreak of the American Revolution.” Huntington Library Quarterly 34, No. 2 (Feb., 1971): 141 – 157. Accessed at: https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.uvu.edu/stable/pdf/3816907.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A9de9f21b0b15c546aadfe43b5bd73401.

Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution 1763 - 1789. Oxford University Press: New York, 2005. 

Murrin, John, Paul E. Johnson, James M. McPherson, Alice Fahs, Gary Gerstle, Emily S. Rosenberg, and Norman L. Rosenberg. Liberty, Equality, Power: Sixth Edition. Boston: Cengage Learning, 2014.

Norton, Mary Beth. 1774: The Long Year of Revolution. New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2020. 

Orrison, Rob. “‘Acts of a Rude Rabble…’ General Gage, Lord Dartmouth and Ignorant Orders.” Emerging Revolutionary War Era. April 3, 2018. Accessed at: https://emergingrevolutionarywar.org/2018/04/03/acts-of-a-rude-rabble-general-gage-lord-dartmouth-and-ignorant-orders/.

“Paul Revere’s deposition, draft, circa 1775.” Massachusetts Historical Society. Accessed at: https://www.masshist.org/database/viewer.php?item_id=97. 

Rae, Noel. People’s War: Original Voices of the American Revolution. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2011. 

Revere, Paul. “Paul Revere’s Account of His Midnight Ride to Lexington.” America’s Homepage: Historic Documents of the United States. Accessed at: http://ahp.gatech.edu/midnight_ride_1775.html.

Revere, Paul. “Revere’s Account of Events on April 18, 1775”. Paul Revere Heritage Project. Accessed at: http://www.paul-revere-heritage.com/ride-account-modernized.html. 

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