ousin of his, John Adams wrote the protests and essays to the Boston newspaper and used it as a forum to fight the Stamp Act. Finally on February 22, 1766, The British House of Commons ended the Stamp Act. His essays were collected and published in 1768 as "A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law".
             In 1769, John Hancock, the richest man in Boston was accused of wine smuggling and Adams was his lawyer. After several days of trial, Adams finally succeeded in clearing John Hancock's name. Since then, Adams was recognized as a prominent lawyer.
             Another case that made Adams famous was the Boston Massacre at 1770. It was the act of British soldiers who fired at mob of Boston citizen. As a result, five civilians were killed, including Cripus Attucks. Upon the event, many political groups and citizens were unhappy. It was the starting of an anti-British fever. Paul Revere made an engraving that depicted captain Thomas Preston gave the order to start firing at the defenseless crowd. "To calm the situation down, Governor Hutchinson, promised the people to imprison the captain and soldiers, and they would also be trial upon their action." In the afternoon, the Sons of Liberty held a meeting at the Faneuil Hall, demanding that all British should be driven out of Boston. No lawyer was brave enough to take the case except John Adams and another young lawyer Josiah Quincy. Preston and his man should be trial on September, but his men made a petition to the court that they wanted to be trial together at one time. The petition was denied and on October 24, 1770, Preston was the first to be trialed. This was the first case that was held longer than one day in Massachusetts. Adams, leading the defense, had called for at least twenty-two witnesses in one day and none of them had heard Preston ordered his troops to start firing. On October 30, 1770, the juries had dropped the charge on Preston. Soon, it was the soldiers&...