clerk of Boston;
died November 28, 1809; aged 89. The brothers were both active patriots
of the Revolution.

[14] Ezekiel Cheever, the great grandson of the famous schoolmaster of
that name, in the early days of New England, was born in Charlestown,
Mass., in May, 1720. He was by trade a sugar-baker (confectioner), and
from 1752 to 1755 was a selectman of Charlestown. Removing to Boston he
joined the Sons of Liberty, and was active in the ante-revolutionary
movements of the town, and prominent in its public meetings. He was
appointed commissary of artillery in the army before Boston, May 17,
1775. He died a few years after the conclusion of the war. His brother,
David, also a prominent Son of Liberty, was appointed moderator of the
Old South meeting of December 14, but declined. Ezekiel was a member of
the Committee that waited on the consignees and requested their
resignation.

[15] Probably the following handbill is referred to:

"Brethren and Fellow Citizens!

You may depend that those odious miscreants and detestable tools to
ministry and government, the TEA CONSIGNEES, (those traitors to their
country--butchers--who have done and are doing everything to murder and
destroy all that shall stand in the way of their private interest,) are
determined to come (from the castle) and reside again in the town of
Boston! I therefore give you this early notice that you may hold
yourselves in readiness on the shortest warning, to give them such a
reception as such vile ingrates deserve.

(Signed), JOYCE, Junior,

_Chairman of the Committee for Tarring and Feathering._

--> If any person shall be so hardy as to tear this down, he may expect
my severest resentment.

J., Jun."

[16] A merchant and a former selectman of Boston, member of the
Provincial Congress, President of the Massachusetts Board of War during
the Revolution, and from Nov. 2, 1775, till his death, a Judge of the
Court of Common Pleas for Middlesex County. He died at Weston in
December, 1797; aged 79.

[17] Quincy visited England in 1774, and died on the passage home, in
sight of his native land, April 26, 1775. He was a lawyer, and in
conjunction with John Adams, defended the perpetrators of the "Boston
Massacre."

[18] Lord Mahon, a candid British historian, thinks this concession
unwisely denied.

[19] John Rowe, a prominent merchant and patriotic citizen of Boston,
died February 17, 1787; aged 72 years. He was many years a Selectman,
Overseer