Adam's and his "Journal"

The "Journal of Occurrences” was a series of newspaper articles published from 1768 to 1769 in the New York Journal  chronicling the occupation of Boston Massachusetts by the British Army is usually attributed to Samuel Adams the clerk of the Massachusetts house of Representatives.  

The occupation of Boston arose from colonial resistance to the Townshend Act passed by the British Parliament in 1767. In response to acts, the Massachusetts House of Representatives issued a circular letter in February 1768. Written primarily by Samuel Adams, the circular letter argued that the Townshend Acts were a violation of the British Constitution because they taxed British subjects without their consent. The first installment of the "Journal" was published on October 13, 1768, and continued once a week for more than a year. In an innovative approach for an era without professional newspaper reporters, the "Journal" presented a narrative of shocking events in Boston to the outside world. Although the authors claimed that what they wrote was "strictly fact", the events depicted in the articles were apparently exaggerated.  Boston was overrun by unruly British soldiers, who allegedly assaulted men and raped women

Although British officials in Boston insisted that the events depicted in the "Journal of Occurrences” were mostly untrue the articles were widely reprinted and helped build the sentiment that eventually produced the American Revolution.