'm taught--and I believe it true,
Its use will fasten slavish chains upon my country;
And Liberty's the goddess I would choose
To reign triumphant in America.

GEN. JOSEPH WARREN

_And the memorable Suffolk County Resolves of 1774._

The mansion where the famous Suffolk County Resolves were passed,
September 9, 1774, is still standing. It is situated in Milton, Mass., a
few doors from the Boston and Milton line, on the Quincy road. It is a
low, two-story double house, 20 x 40 feet, with the main door in its
centre, and a chimney on each end. In its front there is inserted a
marble tablet, 14 x 28 inches, with the following inscription:

"IN THIS MANSION,

On the 9th day of Sept., 1774, at a meeting of the delegates
of every town and district in the County of Suffolk, the
memorable Suffolk Resolves were adopted.

They were reported by Maj.-Gen. Warren, who fell----in their
defence in the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775.

They were approved by the members of the Continental
Congress at Carpenter's Hall, Phil^a., on the 17^th Sept.,
1774.

The Resolves to which the immortal patriot here first gave
utterance, and the heroic deeds of that eventful day on
which he fell, led the way to American Independence.

'Posterity will acknowledge that virtue which preserved them
free and happy.'"

In Warren's oration, March 5, 1772, more than two years before these
Resolves were passed, the spirit of liberty burned within his heart.
Nine months after these Resolves the battle took place, which finally
resulted in the birth of American freedom. _See portrait, page_ XLVII.

[Illustration: Signature, Joseph Lovering

Signature of Joseph Lovering taken from a check dated May 3, 1848, one
month prior to his death.

N.P. Lovering]

JOSEPH LOVERING.[23]

Respecting Mr. Lovering's connection with the Tea Party, Mr. George W.
Allan, of West Canton Street, Boston, now eighty-two years of age,
relates that about the year 1835, he frequently conversed with that
gentlemen, who told him that on the evening of December 16, 1773, when
he was fifteen years of age, he held the light in Crane's carpenter's
shop, while he and others, fifteen in number, disguised themselves
preparatory to throwing the tea into Boston harbor. He also said that
some two hundred persons joined them on their way to the wharf, where
the tea-ships lay. Mr. George H.