For years before the first shots were fired at Lexington Green , Samuel Adams , Joseph Warren , Josiah Quincy , James Otis , Edes and Gill were writing article after article in the '' Boston Gazette , '' rebelling against royal authority . Adams wrote so many articles , under so many pen names ( at least 25 ) , historians do n't even know exactly how many he wrote . It was the '' Boston Gazette '' that hired Paul Revere to create his famous engraving of the Boston Massacre
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