Clarke Peters
speaker
443 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Jun
Clarke Peters’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The effigy is held aloft and paraded through the streets.
They behead it, then burn it.
When they reach the official's house, windows are smashed.
Some of the crowd break in and raid the wine cellar.
The message is pure Boston, a bold, direct statement of resentment and rage.
It's unclear whether or not Samuel Adams has direct involvement in planning this protest, but in the Boston Gazette, he later refers to those involved as the Sons of Liberty.
It's August 26th, 1765, evening in Boston.
Daylight slinks away.
In his elegant three-story mansion, the Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts is settling down to dinner.
At 53, Thomas Hutchison occupies a rarefied position in his hometown.
Descended from early settlers, he's part of the Massachusetts elite.
Harvard educated, well-connected, and very wealthy.
In Boston, he's a go-to man of influence.
As it happens, his brother-in-law is the government official who was recently targeted by Ebenezer McIntosh.
Rumor is the man only had his job because of Hutchison.
To many in Boston, it seems that far too much power is held by far too few people.
Life for Hutchison is as indulgent as it gets in dour New England.
There are no theaters there.
The puritanical establishment banned those years ago.
But an Anglo-American's home is his castle, and Hutcheson's overflows with oil paintings, exquisite furniture, and fine fabrics.
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