Amazing Coincidences
“Jabez Spicer, of Leyden, Massachusetts, was killed by two bullets in the attack on the federal arsenal at Springfield on Jan. 25, 1787, during Shay’s Rebellion. At that time, he was wearing the same coat his brother Daniel had been wearing when he, too, was killed by two bullets on March 5, 1784. The bullets that killed Jabez Spicer passed through the holes made by the bullets that had killed his brother Daniel three years earlier.” (from RIPLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT!)
Patriot Killed By Lightning
James Otis, Jr. (February 5, 1725 – May 23, 1783) was a lawyer in colonial Massachusetts, a member of the Massachusetts Legislature, and an early advocate of the political views that led to the American Revolution. The phrase "Taxation without Representation is Tyranny" is usually attributed to him.
Otis died suddenly in May 1783 at the age of 58 when, as he stood in the doorway of a friend's Andover house, he was struck by lightning. He is reported to have said to his sister, Mercy Otis Warren, "My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity that it will be by a flash of lightning."
Otis died suddenly in May 1783 at the age of 58 when, as he stood in the doorway of a friend's Andover house, he was struck by lightning. He is reported to have said to his sister, Mercy Otis Warren, "My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity that it will be by a flash of lightning."
