
There is no reference to Samuel Adam’s sketch of “The folley of Boston Billey”. As seen here, the only known sketch of William Peggy Stewart, more commonly known as “Boston Billey” was reportedly quickly made in a local pub in late December of 1773.

Samuel Adam’s sketch, though drawn many days after the event, keenly illustrates the events which prompted Paul Revere to write the ballad “The folley of Boston Billey”. The story proposes that Samuel Adams, in an effort to encourage his fellow “Boston Tea Lobbers” exclaimed: “Lads, the moment of truth is upon us. Gird up your loins to cross this sea, and heave with your might yon angry tea.” Boston Billey, simple of mind, mistook the directions and promptly “girded and grasped yon angry tea, and lobbed his loins deep into the sea”.
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