Adams And Adams Chapter Summary

The whole book starts out in the view of the sentry on guard of the customs house. The soldiers have just come in to Boston from out of another city, and the tensions are very very high between the soldiers and the natives of Boston. With all of these tensions a guard describes his experience of him guarding the customs house late at night during winter when a mob quickly appears and advances on him and the other guards that have shown up as the mob has. Then someone yells fire as bells are ringing and the Boston massacre happens in front of the men. Next in the point of view of John Adams, who is currently a lawyer who stands by the law no matter who it is, hears gunshots and goes outside and asks a soldier what has happen and he is told …show more content…
His friend is a nationalist and supports the king so Franklin has to watch what he says. Then next morning a carriage arrives with a package for Franklin, which contains a letter from Hutchinson which pisses off Franklin. Next back in Boston Adams gets word of the letters that Franklin received and is discussing them with Samuel Adams, the letters say the governor is independent of and representative and will do what he pleases. Also in the letter is that if colonists won’t behave that they should use stronger force. A few weeks after he and his wife take a walk outside and discuss how a revolution is approaching and how Adams is sorry for not being present in their son’s life. Gage then makes the journey back to England with his wife who doesn’t want to even go and remains below deck for most of the voyage. Gage hopes a huge celebration when he returns but gets little to no attention. He wants to head straight to Parliament to tell on how unruly the colonists have …show more content…
Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen have captured Ticonderoga from British hands. Fighting occurs in the congress between radicles and moderates. They next got word that more British are assembling. Adams delivers a speech nominating George Washington as the commander of the continental army, he accepts though he wants no profits. Gage in Boston is worried about being replaced because he sees a ship roll into the harbor. Instead three generals were sent to aid in quenching the rebellion. He holds meetings about what they are going to do about the colonists. They decide to leave Boston and he suggests to his wife that she should leave and go to England. The next morning they see many rebels gathering in a nearby town, and they decide to burn the town. Now on the rebel side with Warren they notice that the British are marching on they and Warren is the last general left so he has to organize the army. The British advance and the battle begins. John Quincy Adams watches the battle with his mother from a