Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the more than 300 original illustrations. See 51470-h.htm or 51470-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51470/51470-h/51470-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51470/51470-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See https://archive.org/details/narrcrithistory06winsrich Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). A carat character is used to denote superscription. A single character following the carat is superscripted (example: Doct^r). Multiple superscripted characters are enclosed by curly brackets (example: Eq^{re}). NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY OF AMERICA The United States of North America Part I [Illustration] NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY OF AMERICA Edited by JUSTIN WINSOR Librarian of Harvard University Corresponding Secretary Massachusetts Historical Society VOL. VI Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1887, By Houghton, Mifflin & Co. All rights reserved. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company. CONTENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. [_The cut on the title shows the obverse of the Washington medal, struck to commemorate the siege of Boston._] CHAPTER I. THE REVOLUTION IMPENDING. _Mellen Chamberlain_ 1 ILLUSTRATIONS: George III., 20; Lord North, with Autograph, 21; Rockingham, 31; Fac-simile of _Glorious News_, May 16, 1766, 33; John Adams, 36; Fac-simile of Adams's Writing, 37; Samuel Adams, with Autograph, 40; Samuel Adams, 41; Revere's Plan of State Street at the time of the Boston Massacre, 48; Autographs of the Court for the Trial following the Boston Massacre,—Benjamin Lynde, John Cushing, Peter Oliver, Edmund Trowbridge, Jonathan Sewall, Samuel Winthrop, 50; of the Counsel,—Robert Treat Paine, Samuel Quincy, John Adams, Josiah Quincy, Jr., and Sampson S. Blowers, 51; Joseph Warren, 54; Fac-simile of Broadside, June 22, 1773, 55; A Contemporary Print, 59; Broadside, June 17, 1774, 61. CRITICAL ESSAY 62 EDITORIAL NOTES 68