John Adams was subject to being literally hanged, drawn, and quartered if the British caught him. He was fighting against an active totalitarian tyrant that was killing people.
You need to moderate your melodrama.
/johnny
He turned nine a week after the Declaration was published. When he was only eight, he witnessed the fires of Charlestown and the cannons of the Battle of Bunker Hill with his mother on a hill near their home in Quincy.
You need to moderate your melodrama.
Speaking of melodrama, I doubt King George's boys were quite evil enough to hang, draw, and quarter children.