Brands, best-selling author of biographies of American heroes and villains ... John Adams — and perhaps less-familiar loyalists: Thomas Hutchinson, William Franklin, the Howe brothers, Joseph ...

The experience of the American revolutionary generation offers ... Some of the powerful were toppled, from Massachusetts Gov. Thomas Hutchinson to members of the wealthy and powerful New York ...

As the two towns debate the true birthplace of the Revolutionary ... Isaiah Thomas had the last word in his ongoing feud with Gov. Thomas Hutchinson. The May 26, 1774 issue includes an epitaph ...

John Adams and some of the other leaders of the American Revolution knew Mercy ... they opposed colonial governor Thomas Hutchinson. But James Otis’ career was cut short in 1769, when a British ...

In the other major cities—New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston—Patriots had been successful in sending the tea ships back to England, but Governor Thomas Hutchinson had kept Massachusetts at ...

wrote and wrangled the American Revolution into inevitability. Schiff is in good company in thinking so: Thomas Hutchinson, the royal governor of the province of Massachusetts Bay, damned Samuel ...

John Adams was born in the American colonies ... John's cousin and a revolutionary leader, got his hands on letters written by Massachusetts governor Thomas Hutchinson. They showed the ...

When reading "Bunker Hill," Nathaniel Philbrick's vivid narrative of the Boston area militia skirmishes that sparked the American Revolution ... Gov. Thomas Hutchinson tried to defend the decision ...