Bunker Hill

expresses regret for the Tea Party as well as criticism of the ministry’s response in a June 2, 1774, entry in his
Diary
, p. 274. In a May 30, 1774, letter to Charles Thomson, Samuel Adams writes of how the “yeomanry . . . must finally save this country” (
Writings
, 3:99). A transcript of the Solemn League and Covenant is in
PIR
, 1:453–59. John Andrews voices his disapproval of the League and Covenant in a June 12, 1774, entry in LJA, p. 329. John Rowe tells of the arrival of the Fourth and Forty-Third Regiments on June 14 and 15, 1774, in his
Diary
, p. 275. Captain Harris writes of the sentries on the common hurling stones at the cows and of the lushness of the grass in an August 7, 1774, letter, in S. R. Lushington,
The Life and Services of General Lord Harris
, p. 34. John Andrews complains of the inconvenience and cost of shipping goods overland from Salem to Boston in letters written on August 1, 20, and November 9 (pp. 336, 344, 383). John Rowe describes Boston’s “distressed situation” in a June 12, 1774, entry of his
Diary
, p. 275.
    Chapter Three— The Long Hot Summer
    I am indebted to Kinvin Wroth and his fellow editors for the title of this chapter; part 3 of volume 1 of their compilation of primary sources in
PIR
is entitled “Long Hot Summer: June 18–Sept. 28, 1774.” The reference to “an attack upon one colony was an attack upon all” is in Edmund Burnett,
The Continental Congress
, p. 20.
Robert Treat Paine, in a 1795 note in the Robert Treat Paine Papers, MHS, recounts how in June 1774 he contributed to Samuel Adams’s plan to prevent Daniel Leonard from interfering with the selection of delegates for the Continental Congress. William Hanna includes an account of the Paine-Leonard incident in his
History of Taunton
, pp. 100–101. Ralph Davol in
Two Men of Taunton
tells the story of Daniel Leonard, Thomas Hutchinson, and the Tory pear tree, pp. 208–9. On Daniel Leonard, see the biography in James Henry Stark,
The Loyalists of Massachusetts
, pp. 325–32. Gage’s proclamation dissolving the General Court on June 17, 1774, is in
Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts
, vol. 5 (1773–74,) p. 291. Thomas Young describes the gathering of “very important and agreeable company” at Joseph Warren’s house in a June 19, 1774, letter cited by Richard Frothingham in his
Life of Joseph Warren
(
LJW
), p. 325. In addition to Frothingham’s biography of Warren, there is John Cary,
Joseph Warren: Physician, Politician, and Patriot
, and Samuel A. Forman,
Dr. Joseph Warren
(
DJW
). As in many matters relating to Joseph Warren, I am indebted both to Forman’s book and to my correspondence with Forman since his book’s publication; Forman provided me with input on Warren’s eye color in a March 1, 2012, e-mail. In
Paul Revere
Esther Forbes writes of Warren, “He had a mobile face . . . and the ‘fine color’ so much admired. In his portrait his hair is powdered, but his coloring and even the shape of his face suggest he was very blond” (p. 66). Warren’s account and ledger books (the first for 1763–68, the second running from May 3, 1774, to May 8, 1775) are at the MHS. The ledger book provides almost a daily record of the patients he saw and what he prescribed for each of them; his first mention of “Miss Mercy Scollay” is on May 30, 1774.
    Forman analyzes Warren’s medical practice in
DJW
, pp. 107–8, 335–44; he also provides a physician’s perspective on Warren’s possession of “the touch”: “that ephemeral human quality enabling [a physician] to connect with patients in a way that, quite aside from treatments we would view as archaic, made people feel at ease, confident and healed. It is much more than the placebo effect of a sugared pill, rather a human and humane interaction depending on communication, compassion, and a transmittable confidence that a health condition, no matter how grave, could be dealt with in the best possible way” (pp. 88–89). J. P. Jewett in
The Hundred Boston Orators
refers to the position of Warren’s pew
(“opposite the old southern door, in the body of the house”) at the Brattle Street Meetinghouse; he also mentions that in 1835, when the site of Warren’s house on Hanover Street was excavated, “wired skulls, from his anatomical room, were discovered” (p. 48). Forman in
DJW
cites William Gordon’s claim that Warren was “judged handsome by the ladies,” p. 179; he also speculates that