Stuart also painted a portrait of the wife of John Adams, which is engraved in the _Works_, vol. ix. A picture of her by Blythe, at the age of twenty-one, accompanies the _Familiar Letters_.
Views of the Adams homestead in Quincy, Mass., are given in the _Works_ (vol. i. p. 598); in _Appleton's Journal_ (xii. 385); in Mrs. Lamb's _Homes of America_. An india-ink sketch, showing a distant view of Boston beyond the house, is in the halls of the Bostonian Society.—ED.]
The Massachusetts Assembly was in no amiable frame of mind. When there was no cause for quarrel, they made one. Bernard had probably been advised to preserve a prudent silence respecting political affairs. At the opening of the session, January 28, 1767, in a message of less than ten printed lines, he recommended "the support of the authority of the government, the maintenance of the honor of the province, and the promotion of the welfare of the people", as the chief objects for their consultation. This called forth a captious reply, and a complaint because Lieutenant-Governor Hutchinson, who had not been reëlected to the Council, appeared in the council-chamber at the opening of the session, at the request of the governor and as matter of courtesy. The House found in his presence, if voluntary, "a new and additional instance of ambition and lust of power."
[Illustration: AUTOGRAPH OF JOHN ADAMS, 1815.
Part of a letter in Smith and Watson's _Hist. and Lit. Curios_., 1st ser., pl. vii.—ED.]
In the spring of 1767, Parliament had occasion to inquire into some colonial legislation. In April, 1765, the Mutiny Act had been extended to the colonies. This was intended in part to provide for military offences not within the jurisdiction of civil courts, and in part to require the colonies in America, as in England in like cases, to provide for quartering the king's troops. The New York Assembly made only partial provision. When Sir Henry Moore, the governor, communicated to them the letter of Earl Shelburne, to the effect that the king expected obedience to the act, the Assembly resolved not to comply, and called in question the authority of Parliament. Parliament then took the matter in hand, and suspended their legislative authority until compliance.[80] This action brought them to terms. It made considerable stir throughout the colonies, and was regarded as a serious invasion of their rights.