Browsing: Papers of John Adams, Volume 4

Commander of the British fleet at New York and with his brother William head of the peace commission which caused so much consternation among patriots in the spring and summer of 1776. Adams could not forgive the Howe brothers for consenting to fight Americans, when Massachusetts had so honored their older brother, George Augustus, who had fallen in the French and Indian War. Adams called the two remaining Howes, the “grateful brothers.” The print was published by James Bretherton in London, 7 March 1778.