RIOTS IN BOSTON, 1747.


Autograph Manuscript of merchant John Adams, a balance sheet showing sums owed to him by Robert and William Castle, 1 p, folio (480 x 380 mm), Boston, December 17, 1747, some creasing and toning.Boston merchant John Adams details the over £2000 owed to him by the Cleeves brothers, and an additional £302 owed by Robert alone. The charges date from 3-5 years earlier, but the accounting was executed in 1747, just after the Knowles Riots in Boston, a series of riots sparked by British naval impressment of colonists.