Sam Adama -- Blogmeister

I just held a meeting of the sons of liberty, a small but growing society of protesting colonists, and told them my thoughts on the stamp act. Treacherous! I said, a friend participating volunteered the idea that we fight back. I understand that eventually that is what it will come to, but I told him first to show signs of rebellion. So we ventured forth with protests, and petitions, and boycotts. Finally one group made a grass scarecrow like figure of a tax collector and hung it from one of the trees in Town Square. We now call the tree the liberty tree. Later they burned his personal items and terrorized his property.
I had another meeting and we rallied the “troops” to go to Town Square, and we faced off the Bloodybacks, we yelled and began throwing snowballs, mind you it is winter, a wave of slaves and protesters ran forward and then a gun went off. Followed by many others. A slave named Crispus Attucks was killed along with three others; two were wounded and died the next day. Young Crispus was the first to die in the closing and seemingly unavoidable fight for our freedom.
I must go to another meeting.

Personally, I thought the Boston Massacre was unfair, because the Boston Massacre caused death to colonists because they were standing up for themselves. The British opened fire. Three colonists were killed and two died later
Among the dead, was a 47 year old runaway African-American slave named Crispus Attucks. Cripus Attucks had led the charge against the soldiers. He was the first person to be killed for American Independence.
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This darned tax on sugar is making my tax collecting a failure; people don’t really like me because I am collecting the large taxes. I think they are getting out of hand those taxes. Also, the government doesn’t ask us for our opinion, and that infuriates me. We should have a say.
I have remarried to a lady named Elizabeth Wells she is quite nice, and kind.
The stamp act really is out of control. the stamp is appearing all over and only can be paid in SOLID gold and silver! It's a lot to manage.

The output of the war promised land but alas, the Crown proclaimed that the colonists would not expand territory, and he cut off our precious land we earned from the war. And *sniff* Elizabeth gave birth to a girl we named Samantha who lived, and later a girl named Mary who died after three months and nine days. And my wife, has fallen dreadfully ill, *wail!* and the doctor said she may die. We also must pay much money for taxes like, tea, sugar, stamps to mail things to England and also molasses, which I need for my wife’s fabulous cookies. My business is not providing lots of money.
Any way my father wishes my wife health, and me happiness and that my business picks up.

My life is devoted to helping my wife, Elizabeth go through the grief of losing most of my children. My son Samuel lived eighteen days and passed away, Elizabeth gave birth again to a son we also named Samuel, and he is living well enough. Two years later she had another child this one named Joseph and he died the day after. She is currently pregnant; I dearly hope the child will live. I have also started working to reduce taxations that are rising due to the British working more land into homesteads

I was sad that I did not participate in the war, but I wanted the governor to resign and for the colonial legislatures and our people to have more rights.

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