Terry L Wilson

Genesis of Martyrs Terry L Wilson

"This meeting can do no more to save the country!" Sam Adams cries out to five thousand agitated men packed in the Old South Meetinghouse. Kindled by a half-century of British Parliament's overbearing mandates and oppressions, a simmer of resistance now boils, pressing for colonial rights as free Englishmen. Faces blackened with coal dust, identities concealed, two hundred plus enraged men invade three ships moored at Griffin's Wharf. Words spoken by John Hancock resonate in their minds. "Let every man do what is right in his own eyes!" With Boston Harbor a teapot, a decade harnessed with strife, combat and bereavement promises an assault on the colonies.