Boston, on Tremont Street--there where travel congests, and two living
streams meet all day long---you look through the iron fence, so slender
that it scarce impedes the view, and not twenty feet from the curb is a
simple metal disk set on an iron rod driven into the ground and on it this
inscription: "This marks the grave of Samuel Adams."

For many years the grave was unmarked, and the disk that now denotes it
was only recently placed in position by the Sons of the American
Revolution. But the place of Samuel Adams on the pages of history is
secure. Upon the times in which he lived he exercised a profound
influence. And he who influences the times in which he lives has
influenced all the times that come after; he has left his impress on
eternity.




JOHN HANCOCK

Boston, Sept. 30, 1765

Gent:

Since my last I have receiv'd your favour by Capt Hulme who is
arriv'd here with the most disagreeable Commodity (say Stamps)
that were imported into this Country & what if carry'd into
Execution will entirely Stagnate Trade here, for it is
universally determined here never to Submitt to it and the
principal merchts here will by no means carry on Business under a
Stamp, we are in the utmost Confusion here and shall be more so