They preferred Hancock, after John Hancock, the great revolutionary with the fancy signature, who was born where the Adams Academy now stands ... covers Quincy for The Patriot Ledger.

John Adams applauded the Boston Tea Party. He wrote in his Diary, "There is a Dignity, a Majesty, a Sublimity, in this last Effort of the Patriots, that I greatly admire." By 1774 Adams believed ...