The Spirit of 1775:Massachusetts Civilians in the

American Revolution

Caitlin Galante- DeAngelis Hopkins23 September 2017

John Hancock RiceDorothy Quincy Rice

born June 27, 1775

Parents:Jabez Rice (1727-1809)

Miriam (Morse) Rice (1735-1776)

A Plan of the Town and Harbor of BostonI. De Costa, American Antiquarian Society

A Plan of the Town and Harbor of BostonI. De Costa, American Antiquarian Society

A Plan of the Town and Harbor of BostonI. De Costa, American Antiquarian Society

A Plan of the Town and Harbor of BostonI. De Costa, American Antiquarian Society

A Plan of the Town and Harbor of BostonI. De Costa, American Antiquarian Society

A Plan of the Town and Harbor of BostonI. De Costa, American Antiquarian Society

A Plan of the Town and Harbor of BostonI. De Costa, American Antiquarian Society

A Plan of the Town and Harbor of BostonI. De Costa, American Antiquarian Society

“Belcher has two families with him. There are 3 in Veses house, 2 in Etters, 2 in Mr. Savils, 2 in Jonathan Bass'es . . . It would make your heart ake to see what difficulties and distresses the poor Boston people are driven to.”

Abigail Adams to John AdamsJuly 12, 1775

“Our House is an hospital in every part. And such is the distress of the neighbourhood that I can scarcly find a well person to assist me in looking after the sick.”

Abigail Adams to John AdamsSeptember 10, 1775

Lydia Dyar, 1775, Billerica, MA

Abigail Codman, 1775, Haverhill, MA

Abigail Codman, 1775, Haverhill, MA

Charles Pratt Marston, 1775, Burlington, MA

Charles Pratt Marston, 1775, Burlington, MA

Abigail Kenrick, 1775, Groton, MA

Miriam Holden, 7, d. Aug. 4Stephen Dana, 1, d. Aug. 6Molley Ames, 3, d. Aug. 6Phineas Wait, 6 mo, d. Aug. 10Samuel Moors, 10, d. Aug 12Abigail Lawrence, 10 mo, d. Aug. 13Luther Page, 3, d. Aug. 13Lucy Moors, 6, d. Aug. 17Peggy Quails, 1, d. Aug. 17Philomela Lawrence, 10 mo, d. Aug. 19

Olive Fletcher, 14, d. Aug. 24Elizabeth Champney, 6, d. Aug. 27Sally Champney, 3, d. Aug. 29Ebenezer Champney, 1, d. Aug. 29Samuel Patch, 10, d. Sept. 9Mary Bowers, 5, d. Sept 21Joseph Parker, 5, d. Sept. 22Sarah Bowers, 4, d. Sept. 25Ebenezer Patch, 2, d. Sept 30Simeon Shed, 2, d. Oct 5

Philomela Lawrence, 1775, Groton, MA

“How long o Lord shall the whole land say I am sick? O shew us wherefore it is that thou art thus contending with us? In a very perticuliar manner I have occasion to make this inquiry who have had Breach upon Breach, nor has one wound been permitted to be healed e'er it is made to Blead affresh, in six weeks I count 5 of my near connections laid in the grave . . . Yea tho he slay me I will trust in him said holy Job.”

Abigail Adams to John AdamsOctober 9, 1775

Jason Russell, 1775, Arlington, MA

“[The Regulars] fired more than an hundred bullets into the house where we dwell . . . where we and two aged gentlemen were, all unarmed, we escaped for our lives into the cellar, the two aged gentlemen were immediately most barbarously and inhumanly murdered by [the soldiers], being stabbed through in many places, their heads mauled, skulls broke, and their brains out on the floor and walls of the house.”

-Benjamin and Rachel Cooper, deposition, 1775

Joseph and Nehemiah Parker, 1775-6, Groton, MA