United States v. Stewart

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

YOUNG, District Judge.

On a historical island between the looming skyscrapers and glass office buildings of the Boston financial district sits the Old State House — a small but ornate brick building that was once the seat of the royal government in colonial Massachusetts. This building is perhaps best remembered for the white, second floor balcony where, on July 18, 1776, Colonel Thomas Crafts read to the people of Boston a copy of the newly signed Declaration of Independence. Yet, fifteen years earlier an event occurred in that building that a young John Adams witnessed…