1John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 March 1777 (Adams Papers)
George Augustus, 3d Viscount Howe
2From John Adams to Joseph Palmer, 20 June 1775 (Adams Papers)
is referring to George Augustus Viscount Howe (1724–1758), the older brother of William and Richard Howe, who distinguished himself during the French and Indian War, and whose death in an ill-fated expedition against Fort Ticonderoga in 1758 so affected the people of... ...in Westminster Abbey. This affection for Viscount Howe and William Howe’s statement in 1774 that he would not accept a...