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• Boston Port Bill, 1774
• Boston Tea Party, Boston, Mass., 1773
• Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775
• Chelsea Creek, Battle of, Mass., 1775
• Concord, Battle of, Concord, Mass., 1775
• Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775
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• Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution (Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society v77; 1927), by Gardner Weld Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Celebration of the centennial anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill. (Boston, Printed by order of the City council, 1875), by Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Milton and the Suffolk resolves / by Lauriston L. Scaife. ([Milton, Mass.] : Milton Historical Society, 1921), by Lauriston L. Scaife (page images at HathiTrust)
• The silver punch bowl made by Paul Revere to commemorate a vote of the honorable House of representatives of the Massachusetts Bay in 1768. (Reproduced from the "Boston Sunday herald" of January 20, 1895.) (Boston, N. Sawyer & son, printers, 1895), by Benjamin Franklin Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
• The silver punch bowl made by Paul Revere to commemorate a vote of the honorable House of representatives of the Massachusetts Bay in 1768. ([Providence, Livermore & Knight co., 1903]), by Benjamin Franklin Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address in the old Concord meeting house, April 19, 1894, by E. R. Hoar. (Boston, Beacon press, T. Todd, printer, 1894), by E Hoar (page images at HathiTrust)
• The administration of the Massachusetts and Virginia navies of the American revolution. ([Annapolis, Md., 1906]), by Charles Oscar Paullin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Franklin before the Privy council, White Hall Chapel, London, 1774 on behalf of the province of Massachusetts to advocate the removal of Hutchinson and Oliver. (Philadelphia : John M. Butler, 1859) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Declaration of independence by the colony of Massachusetts Bay, ([New York, 1862]), by Henry Barton Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The relation of New Hanpshire men to the siege of Boston; delivered before the New Hampshire society of sons of the American revolution, at Concord, N. H., July 9, 1903, (Concord, N.H., Rumford printing company, 1904), by William Frederick Whitcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• South Carolina and Massachusetts. Speech of Hon. J.J. Evans, of South Carolina, in reply to Mr. Sumner of Massachusetts. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, June 23, 1856. (Washington, Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1856), by Josiah J. Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gage's Instructions, by Henry De Berniere and Thomas Gage (Gutenberg ebook)
• A concise refutation of the claims of New-Hampshire and Massachusetts-Bay, to the territory of Vermont; with occasional remarks on the long disputed claim of New-York to the same. / Written by Ethan Allen and Jonas Fay, Esq'rs. ; And published by order of the governor and Council of Vermont. Bennington, the first day of January, 1780. Joseph Fay, sec'ry. (Hartford: : Printed by Hudson and Goodwin., [1780]), by Ethan Allen, Jonas Fay, and Vermont. General Assembly (HTML at Evans TCP)
• An oration delivered March fifteenth, 1775, at the request of a number of the inhabitants of the town of Boston. By Dr. Thomas Bolton. ; [Three lines of quotations in Latin] ([Boston : s.n.], Printed in the year, M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]), by Thomas Bolton (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Copy of the complaint of the House of Representatives of Massachuset's-Bay, against Sir Francis Bernard: with Sir Francis Bernard's answer. ([Boston? : s.n., 1770]), by Massachusetts House of Representatives and Francis Bernard (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Sagittarius's letters and political speculations. Extracted from the Public ledger. : Humbly inscribed to the very loyal and truly pious Doctor Samuel Cooper, Pastor of the Congregational Church in Brattle Street. : [Seven lines of Scripture texts] (Boston. : Printed: By order of the Select Men and sold at Donation Hall, for the benefit of the distressed patriots., MDCCLXXV. [1775]), by John Mein and Samuel Cooper (HTML at Evans TCP)

• The Rebels of Nantucket (revised version of The Patriots of Nantucket; 2009), by Oscar Mandel (PDF at Caltech)
• The Adulateur: A Tragedy, As it is Now Acted in Upper Servia (with spelling modernized), by Mercy Otis Warren (HTML at seltzerbooks.com)

• Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times: 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance, by Charles Carleton Coffin (Gutenberg ebook)

• A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony, by Alice Turner Curtis, illust. by Wuanita Smith (Gutenberg ebook)

• History of the Massachusetts Daughters of the American revolution. (Boston, Headquarters of the Massachusetts Daughters of the American revolution, [1905]), by Daughters of the American revolution. Massachusetts (page images at HathiTrust)

• Extracts From Letters Written at the Time of the Occupation of Boston by the British, 1775-6 (From the Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, vol. XIII, July, 1876), ed. by William P. Upham
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• Remarks on Some Rare German Prints of New York and Quebec, and on Contributions in the Year 1781 by the Churches of Massachusetts to the Distressed Inhabitants of South Carolina and Georgia (ca. 1894), by Samuel A. Green
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• Copy of Letters Sent to Great-Britain by His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, the Hon. Andrew Oliver, and Several Other Persons, by Thomas Hutchinson and Andrew Oliver (Gutenberg ebook)

• Donations to the people of Boston suffering under the portbill. 1774-1777. ([Boston, 1876]), by Albert H. Hoyt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the act of Parliament commonly called the Boston port-bill : with thoughts on civil society and standing armies /, by Josiah Quincy, Randall K. Burkett, and John Sparhawk (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter to a friend. Giving a concise, but just, representation of the hardships and sufferings the town of Boston is exposed to, and must undergo in consequence of the late act of the British-Parliament; which, by shutting up it's port, has put a fatal bar in the way of that commercial business on which it depended for it's support. : Shewing, at the same time, wherein this edict, however unintended, is powerfully adapted to promote the interest of all the American colonies, and even of Boston itself in the end. / (Boston, N.E. : Printed and sold at Greenleaf's Printing-office, in Hanover-Street, MDCCLXXIV. [1774]), by Charles Chauncy and Joseph Greenleaf, contrib. by William L. Clements (page images at HathiTrust)
• American independence the interest and glory of Great-Britain. : b A new edition. To which is added, a copious appendix, containing two additional letters to the Legislature; a letter to Edmund Burke, Esq; controverting his Principles of American government. And a postscript, containing new arguments on the subject; a draught for a bill proposed to be brought into Parliament for restoring peace and harmony between Great-Britain and British America, and for perpetuating the same: together with the essential materials for a proposed Grand British League and confederacy, to be entered into by Great-Britain and all the states of British America. The whole of which shews, beyond denial or doubt, that by granting the colonists an unrestrained civil freedom and legislative independence, we may most effectually secure their future commercial dependence upon, and consequently shall best promote the interest and support the glory of, Great-Britain. [Nine lines from Trenchard]. (London : Printed for the author, by H.S. Woodfall. Sold by J. Wilkie, No. 71, St. Paul's Church-Yard; and at the Pamphlet-Shops, MDCCLXXV. [1775]), by John Cartwright, J. Wilkie, H. S. Woodfall, and George Savile, contrib. by William L. Clements (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Boston port bill as pictured by a contemporary London cartoonist, (New York, The Grolier club, 1904), by R. T. Haines Halsey, Philip Dawe, Gilliss Press. Book producer, and Grolier Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• The watchman's alarm to Lord N---H; or, The British Parliamentary Boston port-bill unwraped [sic]. Being an oration on the meridian of liberty; not to inflame but to cheer the mind: or as an apple of gold in the pictures of silver for the mourning captives in America. : With some observations on the liberties of the Africans. / By the British Bostonian. ; [Sixteen lines of quotations] (Salem [Mass.]: N.E. : Printed by E. Russell, in Rucks-Street, (over Mr. J. Badger's auction and broker's-store) near the State-House, leading to Marblehead., M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]), by John Allen (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Gentlemen, The evils which we have long foreseen are now come upon this town and province, the long meditated stroke is now given to the civil liberty of this country? ... The bill for blocking up the harbour of Boston is replete with injustice and cruelty ... There can be no doubt of our succeeding to the utmost of our wishes if we universally come into a solemn league, not to import goods from Great Britain ... we have drawn up a form of a covenant ... ([Boston : s.n., 1774]), by Boston Committee of Correspondence (HTML at Evans TCP)
• We the subscribers, inhabitants of the town of [blank] having taken into our serious consideration the precarious state of the liberties of North-America ... Do, in the presence of God, solemnly and in good faith, covenant and engage with each other, 1st, that from henceforth we will suspend all commercial intercourse with the said island of Great Britain ... Witness our hands, June [blank] 1774. ([Boston : s.n., 1774]), by Boston Committee of Correspondence (HTML at Evans TCP)
• American independence the interest and glory of Great Britain; containing arguments which prove, that not only in taxation, but in trade, manufactures, and government, the colonies are entitled to an entire independency on the British legislature; and that it can only be by a formal declaration of these rights, and forming thereupon a friendly league with them, that the true and lasting welfare of both countries can be promoted. : In a series of letters to the legislature. : [Nine lines from Trenchard] (Philadelphia, : Printed and sold by Robert Bell, in Third-Street., MDCCLXXVI. [1776]), by John Cartwright and George Savile (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A letter to a friend. Giving a concise, but just, representation of the hardships and sufferings the town of Boston is exposed to and must undergo in consequence of the late act of the British-Parliament; which, by shutting up it's port, has put a fatal bar in the way of that commercial business on which it depended for it's support. Shewing, at the same time, wherein this edict, however unintended, is powerfully adapted to promote the interest of all the American colonies, and even of Boston itself in the end. / By T.W. a Bostonian. (Boston, N.E. : Printed and sold at Greenleaf's printing-office, in Hanover-Street., M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]), by Charles Chauncy (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Extract of a sermon preach'd at the South Church in Boston, November 27th, 1746. By the Reverend Mr. Thomas Prince, ; occasioned by the surprizing appearance of Divine Providence for North America, in the destruction of the French fleet and army, sent to Chebucktah the preceeding summer: ; and reprinted at this time with a view to encourage and animate the people of God to put their trust in him, and to call upon his name, under the severe and keen distresses, now taking place, in Boston and Charlestown; by the rigorous execution of the late act of the British Parliament, called the Boston Port-Bill. ; [Sixteen lines of Scripture texts] (Boston: : Re-printed and sold by John Kneeland, in Milk-Street., MDCCLXXIV. [1774]), by Thomas Prince and Thomas Prince (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Extract of a sermon preach'd at the South Church in Boston, November 27, 1746. By the Rev. Mr. Thomas Prince, ; occasioned by the surprizing appearance of divine providence for North-America, in the destruction of the French fleet and army, sent to Chebucktah the preceeding summer: ; and re printed at this time with a view to encourage and animate the people of God to put their trust in him, and to call upon his name, under the severe and keen distresses, now taking place in Boston and Charlestown; by the rigorous execution of the late act of the British Parliament, called the Boston Port-Bill. ; [Sixteen lines of Scripture texts] (Watertown [Mass.]: : Re-printed and sold by B. Edes, near the bridge., 1776), by Thomas Prince and Thomas Prince (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Observations on the act of Parliament commonly called the Boston Port-Bill; with thoughts on civil society and standing armies. / By Josiah Quincy, Jun'r. ; [Twelve lines of quotations] (Boston: N.E. : Printed for and sold by Edes and Gill, in Queen-Street,, 1774), by Josiah Quincy (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A Serious address to the inhabitants of the colony of New-York, containing a full and minute survey of the Boston-Port Act, calculated to excite our inhabitants to conspire, with the other colonies on this continent, in extricating that unhappy town from its unparalleled distresses, and for the actual redemption, and security of our general rights and liberties. (New-York: : Printed by John Holt, in Dock-Street, near the coffee-house., M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]), by Charles Pratt Camden (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Recollections of the Private Centennial Celebration of the Overthrow of the Tea, at Griffin's Wharf, in Boston Harbor, December 16, 1773, in Honor of Samuel Howard, One of the Actors, at Cambridge, Mass., December, 1873 (Cambridge, MA: Press of J. Wilson and Son, 1874), ed. by Caroline Howard Gilman, contrib. by M. C. D. Silsbee, Eliza W. Lippitt, Annie M. Bowen, Francis J. Lippitt, and Samuel Longfellow (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Retrospect of the Boston Tea-Party, With a Memoir of George R. T. Hewes, A Survivor of the Little Band of Patriots Who Drowned the Tea in Boston harbour in 1773 (copyrighted by Hawkes; New York: S. S. Bliss, 1834), by James Hawkes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Few Remarks Upon Some of the Votes and Resolutions of the Continental Congress Held at Philadelphia in September, and the Provincial Congress, Held at Cambridge in November 1774 (Boston: Printed for the purchasers, 1775), by Harrison Gray
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• Tea Leaves: Being a Collection of Letters and Documents Relating to the Shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company (Boston: A. O. Crane, 1884), ed. by Francis S. Drake (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Traits of the Tea Party: Being a Memoir of George R. T. Hewes, One of the Last of Its Survivors; With a History of That Transaction, Reminiscences of the Massacre, and the Siege, and Other Stories of Old Times (New York: Harper and Bros., 1835), by B. B. Thatcher (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Tea leaves: being a collection of letters and documents relating to the shipment of tea to the American colonies in the year 1773, by the East India tea company. (Boston, A. O. Crane, 1884) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections of the private centennial celebration of the overthrow of the tea, at Griffin's wharf, in Boston harbor, December 16, 1773, in honor of Samuel Howard, one of the actors, at Cambridge, Mass., December, 1873. (Cambridge, Press of J. Wilson and son, 1874), by Caroline Gilman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traits of the tea party : being a memoir of George R. T. Hewes, one of the last of its survivors; with a history of that transaction; reminiscences of the massacre, and the siege, and other stories of old times. (New York : Harper & brothers, 1835), by B. B. Thatcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traits of the tea party : being a memoir of George R.T. Hewes, one of the last of its survivors : with a history of that transaction, reminiscences of the massacre, and the siege, and other stories of old times / (New York : Harper & Bros., 1835), by B. B. Thatcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• A retrospect of the Boston tea-party, with a memoir of George R. T. Hewes, a survivor of the little band of patriots who drowned the tea in Boston harbour in 1773. (New-York, S. S. Bliss, printer, 1834), by James. att Hawkes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections of the private centennial celebration of the overthrow of the tea, at Griffin's wharf, in Boston harbor, December 16, 1773, in honor of Samuel Howard, one of the actors, at Cambridge, Mass., December, 1878. (Cambridge, Press of J. Wilson and Son, 1874), by Caroline Howard Gilman and Marlanne Cabot Devereux Silsbee (page images at HathiTrust)
• When Boston braved the king; a story of tea-party times, (Boston, Chicago : W.A. Wilde & Company, [c1899]), by William Eleazar Barton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tea leaves: being a collection of letters and documents relating to the shipment of tea to the American colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. Now first printed from the original manuscript. (Boston, A.O. Crane, 1884), by Francis S. Drake and Smith & Porter. Book producer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The historic Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773 : its men and objects : incidents leading to, accompanying, and following the throwing overboard of the tea, including a short account of the Boston Massacre of March 5, 1770, with patriotic lessons therefrom adapted to the present time / (Worcester, Mass. : Press of F.S. Blanchard, 1896), by Caleb A. Wall (page images at HathiTrust)
• A biographical memoir of Hugh Williamson, M.D., LL.D. ... Delivered on the first of November, 1819, at the request of the New-York historical society. (New-York, Printed by C.S. Van Winkle, printer to the university, 1820), by David Hosack, College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York, and New-York Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Yankee tea-party ; or, Boston in 1773 / (Philadelphia : Lindsay and Blakiston, 1851), by Henry C. Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dorothy Q, together with A ballad of the Boston tea party & Grandmother's story of Bunker Hill battle, (Cambridge [Mass.] Printed at the Riverside press, 1893), by Oliver Wendell Holmes and Howard Pyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of a special meeting of the Massachusetts historical society, December 16, 1873; being the one hundredth anniversary of the destruction of the tea in Boston harbor. (Boston, Press of J. Wilson and son, 1874), by Massachusetts Historical Society, R. C. Waterston, and Richard Frothingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Boston Tea Party : catalyst for revolution : an exhibition commemorating the 200th anniversary / ([Ann Arbor] : William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, 1973), by Arlene Phillips Kleeb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tea leaves; being a collection of letters and documents relating to the shipment of tea to the American colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (Boston, A. O. Crane, 1884), by Francis S. Drake (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dorothy Q, together with A ballad of the Boston tea party & Grandmother's story of Bunker Hill battle, (Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893), by Oliver Wendell Holmes, illust. by Howard Pyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Boston tea party, December 1773; (New York, Dodd, Mead & company, [c1882]), by H. W. McVickar, Josephine Pollard, Josephine Pollard, and Mead & Company. pbl Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tea Leaves: Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to: the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year: 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction,: notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party), by Francis S. Drake (Gutenberg ebook)

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