Jeanette

Jonathan Mayhew – John Adams called Rev. Mayhew "the morning gun of the Revolution." Adams also dubbed him a "transcendent genius." Robert Treat Paine called Dr. Mayhew, "The Father of Civil and Religious Liberty in Massachusetts and America." No one today should underestimate the significant contribution that the Rev. Jonathan Mayhew made toward the cause of liberty and American independence.

Mayhew's sermon resulted in the motto for the American Revolution: "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biReQ6bcYfk