Identifier: walkstalksabout00mann (find matches)
Title: Walks & talks about historic Boston .
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Mann, Albert William, 1841-
Subjects: Historic buildings -- Massachusetts Boston Boston (Mass.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : The Mann publishing co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s day resorted to hishouse on Purchase Street to lay their plans for the comingelection. It was in such an atmosphere that our SamuelAdams of Revolutionary fame was brought up. and his afterlife shows that he made good use of the training thus re-ceived. Like many other boys of his age and class, he at-tended the Boston Latin School, which was taught by thatcelebrated Master. John Lovell. At that time the School waslocated on School Street directly in the rear of KingsChapel. We know that he was an earnest and diligent stu-dent, for he entered Harvard College in 1736 at the early ageof fourteen and graduated in 1740, the fifth in a class oftwenty-two. Not being content with an A. B.. he returnedto study for a Masters degree, which he obtained, and in1743 in the very presence of Governor Shirley, he declaimedin Latin, to the efifect that it was lawful to resist the SupremeMagistrate if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be pre-served. His father, through his connection with the Land 225
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Samuel Adams Walks and Ialks . I haul Historic Boston. 227 Jlaiik Scheme met with great tinaiicial losses, so that at hisdeath in 1748, he left little but the house on Purchase Street,which was ifast becomini;- rusty for want of proper means tokeep it in proper rc))air. In 1763, Samuel Adams, becauseof his great financial straits, was made one of the Collectorsof the Town of Boston, an office generally given to citi/.erswho had seen better days. This position gave him wide ac-quaintance among all classes of the citizens and was of greatpolitical value to him. John Adams thus wrote of his kinsman: Samuel Adamsto my certain knowledge, from 1758 made it his constant ruleto watch the rise of every brilliant genius to seek his ac-quaintance, to court his friendship, to cultivate his naturalfeelings in favor of his native country, and to warn himagainst the hostile designs of Great Britain. Through hisinfluence, four brilliant young men came to the front and lefttheir indelible impress on t

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