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When Boston Braved The King was written in 1899 and is a fictionalized story of the Boston Tea Party and the events starting in September 1773 leading up to it, told from the perspective of a 17-year-old apprentice housewright (carpenter specializing in building houses), named John Farwell, working under the John Crane, one of the Sons of Liberty and the only known person injured during the dumping of the tea into Boston Harbor.John Farwell and his circle of apprentice friends seem to be fictional, but many true and notable names of the Boston colony play an active role in the book, with John encountering the likes of Paul Revere, John Hancock and Samuel Adams, while also taking verbal jabs at Tories (supports of George III) like Governor Hutchinson and parson Mather Byles.This IS a public domain work. Most editions you will find are unedited OCR versions that contain frequent errors, no formatting (like bold or italicized text) and large gaps where one page ends and the next begins. This version has been restored. Brought to you by www.poorrichardsprintshop.com

This book was published in 1899 From the book's Preface: The story of the Boston Tea-Party has been told many times, but still it offers to the story-teller a tempting theme. One thing which deserves to be brought more prominently to the front is the large share which the young people, the apprentices, the boys in the Latin School, and the Daughters of Lib- erty had in the making of public sentiment and the carrying out of daring projects in those momentous days. This story is intended to be accurate in its repre- sentation of historic characters and events ; to give a true picture of life and thought in Boston before the Revolution, and to bring to the front the young people of the time together with their interesting seniors. Among the latter it introduces the warm hearted and impulsive John Crane ; the ever-ready and always intrepid Paul Revere ; the unhappy and misunderstood Governor Hutchinson ; the Quaker owner of the tea-ships, Francis Rotch ; and the jolly old Tory parson, Mather Byles; beside the leaders of public sentiment in that day, Warren, Adams, Hancock, and Mollineux. It endeavors to do justice to the Loyalists, who deserve the privilege of speak- ing in their own words to the present generation, and it attempts further to bring into high relief the earnestness and patriotism of those who, in the de- struction of the tea, led in the brilliant and historic protest against the aggressions of the British govern- ment. The site of the Liberty Tree is marked with a tablet, but thousands pass it every day unheeding, and too few know what things were done there. It deserves to be remembered as a place not less sacred than Faneuil Hall, the Old South Meeting-house, or Independence Hall.

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Excerpt from When Boston Braved the King: A Story of Tea-Party TimesThe story of the Boston tea-party has been told many times, but still it offers to the story-teller a tempting theme. One thing which deserves to be brought more prominently to the front is the large share which the young people, the apprentices, the boys in the Latin School, and the Daughters of Lib erty had in the making of public sentiment and the carrying out of daring projects in those momentous days.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from When Boston Braved the King: A Story of Tea-Party TimesThe story of the Boston tea-party has been told many times, but still it offers to the story-teller a tempting theme. One thing which deserves to be brought more prominently to the front is the large share which the young people, the apprentices, the boys in the Latin School, and the Daughters of Lib erty had in the making of public sentiment and the carrying out of daring projects in those momentous days.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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