[Footnote 54: Dr. Samuel Cooper, well known as a zealous patriot and
pastor of the church in Brattle Square. The edifice, at that time
esteemed the finest interior in Boston, and yet much admired, had been
completed about a year. It has now gone the way of all old structures in
Boston. Mr. Adams had become a proprietor and a worshipper at this
church.]
[Footnote 55: He held out tolerably well for two years. But the apparent
preponderance of British power on the one side, and his sectarian
prejudices against the Independents of New England on the other, finally
got the better of him, so far as to dictate the appeal to General
Washington, in the gloomiest period of the war, which forever forfeited
for him all claim to the commendation above bestowed.]