100 Bible Verses That Made America: Abigail Adams at Bunker Hill
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 737 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Abigail Adams was raising her children near Boston when the first major clash of the American Revolution exploded across the harbor. She brought seven-year-old John Quincy to the top of Penn Hill, and they watched the Battle of Bunker Hill in real time. They saw Charlestown burn, heard the cannon fire roll across the water, and felt the fear that swept through families as British soldiers clashed with the colonial army.
Robert Morgan, author of 100 Bible Verses That Made America, explains how this moment fit into the growing American Revolution timeline and why the Bible became the source Abigail leaned on as the war for independence closed in on her home.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:14.3 | This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, |
| 0:18.4 | the show where America is the star and the American people. To search for |
| 0:23.0 | the Our American Stories podcast, go to the IHeart Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.2 | If you want to know about the history of America, it is imperative that you know the role |
| 0:34.8 | that the Bible played in shaping our country. Our founding fathers, |
| 0:39.3 | both Christian and non-Christian, were heavily influenced by the Bible. Here to share another story |
| 0:45.6 | is Robert Morgan, who's the author of 100 Bible verses that made America, defining moments that |
| 0:52.1 | shaped our enduring foundation of faith. Let's take a listen. |
| 0:57.0 | When the Puritans migrated to America in the early 1600s, they established the city of Boston. |
| 1:03.5 | The first Englishman to inhabit Boston was a pastor and a chaplain named William Blackstone, |
| 1:10.1 | who named the city for his hometown, the city of Boston |
| 1:13.5 | in Lincolnshire, in England. Over the next hundred years, Boston grew into a thriving community |
| 1:19.9 | that increasingly resented British domination. It all culminated, as we know, in the famous Boston |
| 1:26.3 | Tea Party of 1773. |
| 1:30.7 | After the Boston Tea Party, the British issued additional punitive measures against Boston, |
| 1:36.0 | and this prompted the colonies to convene the first Continental Congress in 1774. |
| 1:42.5 | John Adams of Massachusetts traveled to Philadelphia, leaving his wife Abigail |
| 1:47.6 | and his children in Braintree near Boston, which was quickly becoming a battle zone. British troops |
| 1:55.1 | began swarming the area, and shots were fired nearby Lexington and Concord. |
| 2:01.5 | Abigail was the daughter of a minister, and she was a force to be reckoned with, but she grew |
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