{"product_id":"samuel-adams","title":"Samuel Adams","description":"\u003cp\u003eHe didn’t start out angry. He started out broke.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Samuel Adams was a young man, the British government destroyed his family. His father had helped found the Land Bank — a lifeline for poor farmers and struggling Boston merchants. Parliament outlawed it. The debts fell on his family. For years, Adams fought off government agents trying to seize his father’s land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat injustice never left him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Boston in 1722, the son of a brewer, Adams became the most dangerous man in New England — not with a musket, but with words. He organized the Sons of Liberty. He kept the memory of the Boston Massacre alive when others wanted to move on. He united the colonies through letters when they had no other voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1773, Parliament passed the Tea Act, granting the East India Company a monopoly on tea sold in the colonies. To make it worse, two of the hand-picked merchants chosen to sell that tea in Boston were the sons of Royal Governor Thomas Hutchinson. The colonies had no say. No vote. No representation. Three ships arrived at Griffin’s Wharf loaded with 342 chests of East India Company tea — and according to customs law, they had twenty days to unload.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSamuel Adams spent those twenty days exhausting every legal option. He negotiated with ship owners. He appealed to customs officials. He ordered the ships to turn back to London. The British warships in the harbor refused to let them leave. On December 16, 1773, thousands of angry Bostonians packed into Old South Meeting House for one final appeal. Francis Rotch rode to Milton to beg Governor Hutchinson for permission to send the ships home. Hutchinson refused.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSamuel Adams rose from his pew.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“This meeting can do nothing more to save the country.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e342 chests of tea hit the harbor that night.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout These Stones\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese stones glow. Pulled from the shores of Plymouth, Massachusetts, each one carries warm honey-gold and amber, streaked with cream and white — some so translucent they catch the light like sea glass. Smooth and waxy to the touch. Heavy in the hand. The kind of stone you pick up and don’t put down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLook closely and you’ll find one that stops you — deep amber fading to a dark, smoldering tip, blue-grey and spent. It looks exactly like a match just struck. Or a fire just started. Fitting, for a man whose words were the spark that lit a revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis set contains \u003cstrong\u003e62 stones\u003c\/strong\u003e — one for every year of Samuel Adams’ life when the Constitution was ratified in 1788. He had spent decades fighting for it. He lived to see it done.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe stones in this collection are likely a mix of the following:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHoney-gold to amber\u003c\/strong\u003e — likely \u003cem\u003echert or flint\u003c\/em\u003e, semi-translucent and waxy, with that characteristic glow when held to the light. Flint was essential to early New England — the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag both depended on it to make fire. It sparked then. It still looks like it could.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCream and white with orange veining\u003c\/strong\u003e — likely \u003cem\u003echalcedony or quartz\u003c\/em\u003e, with iron oxide bleeding through natural fractures like a map drawn in rust and flame.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDark blue-grey patches\u003c\/strong\u003e — likely \u003cem\u003ebasalt or fine-grained chert inclusions\u003c\/em\u003e, the smoldering contrast against the warm amber — shadow and fire in a single stone.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe cracked interior\u003c\/strong\u003e — where the surface has broken open, you can see the layered, waxy interior of what is likely \u003cem\u003eagate or chert\u003c\/em\u003e — formed slowly, under pressure, over time. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot polished. Not treated. What you see is exactly what the waves delivered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHand-collected from America’s Hometown, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Never tumbled. Never treated. Each set is one of a kind.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBorn here. Brewed here. Unbreakable.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New England Nova","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44903452311597,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0740\/4276\/9453\/files\/ne4_8587cf41-6a34-42b1-a3ce-c7417e129c9d.png?v=1784235442","url":"https:\/\/newenglandnova.shop\/products\/samuel-adams","provider":"New England Nova","version":"1.0","type":"link"}