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From: John Saillant <oieahc@YAHOO.COM>
List Editor: John Saillant <oieahc@YAHOO.COM>
Editor's Subject: Re: Possibly spurious Samuel Adams quotation [A Boulton]
Author's Subject: Re: Possibly spurious Samuel Adams quotation [A Boulton]
Date Written: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 08:55:16 -0400
Date Posted: Wed, 08 Oct 2013 08:55:16 -0400

According to J.L. Bell at the URL below, the quote does not appear in
any published writings of Samuel Adams, and the term “brush fires”
earliest usage in the OED is 1850. (Samuel Adams died in 1803.)

http://boston1775.blogspot.com/2009/05/samuel-adams-and-brush-fires-in-peoples.html

Alex O. Boulton

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