PUBLICATIONS OF THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS
volume lxxiv
Frederick D. Ballou, President
Daniel R. Coquillette, Vice President
Celeste Walker, Vice President
Linda Smith Rhoads, Vice President
Leslie A. Morris, Recording Secretary
Martha J. McNamara, Corresponding Secretary
William B. Perkins, Treasurer
COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATIONS
Pauline R. Maier, Chair
Robert Anderson
Frederic D. Ballou
Christopher Jedrey
Conrad Edick Wright
EDITOR OF PUBLICATIONS
John W. Tyler
PORTRAIT OF A PATRIOT
THE MAJOR POLITICAL AND LEGAL PAPERS OF JOSIAH QUINCY JUNIOR
PORTRAIT OF A PATRIOT
The Major Political and Legal Papers of Josiah Quincy Junior
EDITORS
DANIEL R. COQUILLETTE
J. Donald Monan, S. J. University Professor, Boston College Lester Kissel Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
NEIL LONGLEY YORK
Karl G. Maeser Professor of General Education and Chair, History Department, Brigham Young University
boston • 2005
The Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Distributed by the University of Virginia Press
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FOR THE QUINCY PAPERS
This series of volumes represents the tireless and invaluable work of our research and administrative assistants: Brandon Bigelow, Kevin Cox, Jane Downing, Natalia Fekula, Michael Hayden, Elizabeth Kamali, Christina Nolan, Nicole Scimone, Brian Sheppard, Susannah Tobin, and Elisa Underwood, with special recognition to the Editorial Assistants to the Boston College Monan Chair, Brendan Farmer and Patricia Tarabelsi, and to Inge Burgess at Harvard. Their intelligence and enthusiasm are visible on every page. Of course, we are deeply in debt to John W. Tyler, Editor of Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts as well as the Committee of Publications, without whose guidance and support this project would have been impossible. Finally, special thanks are also due to the guardians of the Quincy heritage; the Massachusetts Historical Society with its enormously helpful Librarian, Peter Drummey, and his staff, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Quincy family itself.
frontispiece:
Josiah Quincy Junior, “the Patriot” (1774–1775), by Gilbert Stuart (1825). Courtesy of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. See note p. xxix.
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