His place was not with Otis or Adams his function was only to guard the door. Still, when Boston’s liberally educated political leaders met to devise a strategy to counteract the Crown’s latest dictum, it was clear that Revere was at best a “trusted though subordinate associate” whose “inferior status” was obvious to everyone (p. And in 1770 he had put his engraving skills to good use, designing an illustration of the “Boston Massacre” that became famous throughout the colonies. He had also signed his own name to petitions against parliamentary taxation. On numerous occasions, he had helped mobilize Boston’s artisans and mechanics, urging them to take to the streets to protest Crown policy. Revere, like his two compatriots, was a dedicated member of the Sons of Liberty. The two men quickly withdrew to an inner room to discuss the matter in private, instructing Gills, Edes, and Paul Revere to guard the door while they deliberated. They were there to develop a plan for responding to rumors that certain provincial officials in the Bay Colony would soon begin receiving royal salaries, thus making them independent of the Massachusetts Assembly. On October 27, 1772, patriot leaders James Otis and John Adams met at the shop of Benjamin Edes and John Gills, printers of the Boston Gazette.
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