[Footnote 90: See _Memoirs of the Life of the late Charles Lee, Esq._,
published in London in 1793, p. 323.]
[Footnote 91: It is scarcely necessary to point out the extravagance of
this invective. It sounds very like Arthur Lee.]
[Footnote 92: Captain John Derby had just returned from his trip to
Great Britain with the first news of the affair at Concord.]
[Footnote 93: This alludes to Peyton Randolph, who was suddenly called
home to Virginia, on the 24th of May, leaving his place vacant. John
Hancock was chosen to fill it. Mr. Randolph did return soon after, and
died at Philadelphia in October.]
[Footnote 94: Anthony Wibird, the pastor of the parish of which Mr.
Adams was a member.]
[Footnote 95: Mrs. Samuel Adams.]