"Suffolk Resolves" House, 38 Adams Street, Milton - d091fe3bbb66e03d6ee093cc029291d4

Date from item or material accompanying item.; Title supplied by cataloger from similar item in collection.; Abdalian identifier no. 1131; 2; Corresponding negative number: 08_01_000161; Suffolk Resolves House, shaded by three venerable English elms, which has been called the "birthplace of American liberty." It is a two-story yellow, double house. Besides the pillared portico a marble tablet bears an inscription in antique Roman characters, relating the history of the Suffolk Resolves, which, adopted in this mansion by delegates from the Suffolk County towns September 9, 1774, "led the way to American Independence." At the time of the convention the house was the mansion of Daniel Vose, the great man of the election.