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- GLC#
- GLC01788
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- December 28, 1774
- Author/Creator
- Adams, John, 1735-1826
- Title
- to Catharine Macaulay
- Place Written
- Braintree, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 20 cm, Width: 16 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- Road to Revolution
Adams describes the effects of the Boston Port Bill upon the government and people of the colony. He warns that the arrest of Parliament's opponents "will produce Resistance, and Reprisals, and a Flame through America, Such as Eye hath not yet Seen, nor Ear heard nor hath it entered into the Heart of the Minister or his Minions to conceive." He prophesies resistance and reprisals.
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