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Footnote 3:
Wood’s New-England’s Prospect, ed. 1764, p. 5.
Footnote 4:
See the Charter in Hutchinson’s Collection of papers, p 1.–23.
Footnote 5:
Neale’s History of the Puritans. 4to. Vol. 1. p. 543.
Footnote 6:
Hutchinson’s History of the Massachusetts Bay. Vol. II. p. 3.
Footnote 7:
Suffolk Records.
Footnote 8:
Suffolk Records.
Footnote 9:
Hutchinson’s History, Vol. I p. 487.
Footnote 10:
Prince’s Chronology, p. 238.
Footnote 11:
Governor Winthrop’s MS. History.
Footnote 12:
Hutchinson’s Letter of December 7. 1762.
Footnote 13:
Hutchinson’s History, Vol. I p. 251 and 252.
Footnote 14:
Extract from Governor Winthrop’s MS. History sent me by Gov. Trumbull from Connecticut.
Footnote 15:
Massachusetts Records, Vol. I.
Footnote 16:
Hutchinson’s History. Vol I. p. 424.
Footnote 17:
Massachusetts Records, in many places.
Footnote 18:
Mr. John Calender’s Century Sermon.
Footnote 19:
Massachusetts Records for the 4th of November, 1646, Vol. I.
Footnote 20:
Hutchinson’s History, Vol. II. p. 2 and 4.
Footnote 21:
ibid. Vol. I. p. 115.
Footnote 22:
Hutchinson’s Collection, p. 420.
Footnote 23:
Chalmer’s Political Annals, under Connecticut and Rhode-Island.
Footnote 24:
Neal’s History of _New-England_, Vol. I. p. 214–217.
Footnote 25:
Hutchinson’s History. Vol. I. p. 268.
Footnote 26:
Ibid. p. 328.
Footnote 27:
See Hutchinson’s collection of papers, p. 477–506. The Massachusetts assembly in their answer to Gov. Hutchinson in 1773, quoted the above passages in such a manner and to such a purpose, as expresses their opinion of the truth of what Randolph declared.
Footnote 28:
Chalmer’s Political Annals, p. 313.
Footnote 29:
Smith’s History of New Jersey, p. 513.
Footnote 30:
Smith’s History of New-Jersey, p. 517.
Footnote 31:
ibid. p. 528–529.
Footnote 32:
ibid. 536.
Footnote 33:
Corrupted by time into Whore-Kill. The name of many rivers, in New-York particularly terminate with kill, which means both river and rivulet.
Footnote 34:
The manuscript copy contains a number of authorities from Bracton, Fortesque, the petition of right, &c. See Smith, p. 129, the note.
Footnote 35:
Smith, p. 117–123.
Footnote 36:
See Chalmer’s Political Annals under the head of Virginia, for many of the preceding and subsequent articles respecting that colony.
Footnote 37:
Bland’s Inquiry into the rights of the British colonies.
Footnote 38:
Bland’s Inquiry into the rights of the British colonies.
Footnote 39:
Chalmer’s Political Annals, under Virginia.
Footnote 40:
Locke’s Works, Vol. IV, p. 519, &^c. 1779.
Footnote 41:
Chalmers’s Political Annals, B. I. p. 537, 538.
Footnote 42:
Most of what is said upon Carolina is taken from Chalmers’s Political Annals, under the head of that province.
Footnote 43:
A defence of the American Constitution of Government, by John Adams, Esq. p. 365.
Footnote 44:
The Modern Universal History, Vol. xl., 1763.
Footnote 45:
Chalmers’s Political Annals, under the head of Pennsylvania.
Footnote 46:
Chalmers’s Annals.
Footnote 47:
Chalmers’s Annals, p. 654.
Footnote 48:
The Modern Universal History, vol. xli. p. 19. 1764.
Footnote 49:
Ibid. p. 20.
Footnote 50:
Modern Universal History’ vol. xl. p. 453–463. 1763.
Footnote 51:
William Smith’s History of New-York, p. 75.
Footnote 52:
Chalmers’s Political Annals.
Footnote 53:
Lord Camden’s Speech in April 1766.
Footnote 54:
Hutchinson’s History, Vol. II. p. 74.
Footnote 55:
Hutchinson’s History, Vol. II. p. 271, 290, 294, 321. and governor Burnet’s Speech to the Massachusetts general court, in the Massachusetts Records for 1728.
Footnote 56:
Massachusetts Records for 1729 and 1731. Hutchinson’s History, Vol. II. p. 355, 360, 363.
Footnote 57:
The present lieutenant governor. [1772.]
Footnote 58:
The present governor. (1772.)
Footnote 59:
Grand father of the present Sir William Pepperrell. (1787.)
Footnote 60:
Governor Shirley’s letter of February 16, 1744.
Footnote 61:
Hutchinson’s History, Vol. II. p. 407–420. The above account varies from Hutchinson’s, being corrected in some instances, from a manuscript copy of the History of the Reduction of Louisburg, sent by Mr. Shirley, to the duke of Newcastle; and improved in others from information given me,
Footnote 62:
See the postscript of Dean Tucker’s Humble Address.
Footnote 63:
The Dean’s Letter to Edmund Burke, esq. p. 27.
Footnote 64:
Hutchinson’s History, Vol. II. p. 424.
Footnote 65:
See a collection of letters and essays in favour of public liberty, in three Vols. printed for Wilkie. Vol. III. p. 34. 42.
Footnote 66:
See a short account of the proceedings of the deputation. p. 9.
Footnote 67:
Dr. Chauncey’s thanksgiving sermon for the repeal of the stamp act in a note.
Footnote 68:
Dr. Langdon told it me in conversation: and afterward mentioned it in his sermon preached before the convention of the ministers.
Footnote 69:
Now president of Yale College in Connecticut.
Footnote 70:
From Brooke Woodcock, Esq. of Saffron Waldon, who served at the taking of Bellisle, Martinico, and the Havannah.
Footnote 71:
Mr. Burke’s speech on American taxation, April 19, 1774.
Footnote 72:
Otis’s Rights of the British Colonies, p. 57.
Footnote 73:
Ibid, p. 59.
Footnote 74:
Otis’s Vindication of the British Colonies, p. 57.
Footnote 75:
Ibid. p. 59.
Footnote 76:
His Rights of the British Colonies, p. 63.
Footnote 77:
Mr. Hutchinson’s letter of March 8, 1766.
Footnote 78:
Mr. Agent Bollan’s letters of that date to the Massachusetts general court.
Footnote 79:
Mr. Sayre’s letter to Captain Sears, of New-York, dated London, 7th of Febuary, 1764.
Footnote 80:
Mr. Jackson’s letter to lieutenant-governor Hutchinson, Dec. 26, 1765.
Footnote 81:
Mr. Ingersoll’s letter of March 6, 1765.
Footnote 82:
The present secretary of congress.
Footnote 83:
Late governor Trumbull of Connecticut.
Footnote 84:
Mr. Hughes’s letters of October and November, 1765.
Footnote 85:
See the Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol. XXXV. p. 538.
Footnote 86:
Ibid. Vol. XXXVI. p. 94.
Footnote 87:
Ibid. Vol. XXXVI. p. 94 and 95.
Footnote 88:
Mr. Edmund Burke’s speech; April 19, 1774.
Footnote 89:
Political Memoirs, printed 1783.
Footnote 90:
Mr. Burke’s speech.
Footnote 91:
The London merchants letter to John Hancock, Esq. and others, dated February 28.
Footnote 92:
The lords protest against the repeal of the stamp act.
Footnote 93:
Mr. Hutchinson’s loss was 2396l. 3s. 1d. 1–2. Mr. Oliver’s 129l. 3s. Mr. Hallowell’s 289l. 0s. 1d. 1–2. Mr. Story’s 50l. 11s. 6d. 3–4, all sterling.
Footnote 94:
Mr. Hartley’s letters.
Footnote 95:
January 21, 1768.
Footnote 96:
January 30.
Footnote 97:
February 2.
Footnote 98:
Mr. Bollan’s letter to Mr. Hutchinson, August 11, 1767.
Footnote 99:
The Lanceston of 40 guns, the Mermaid of 28, Glasgow 20, Beaver 14, Senegal 14, Bonetta 10, and several armed schooners, besides the Romney of 60 guns, and other ships which had been some time in the harbour.
Footnote 100:
Mr. M. H’s letter to Mr. Hutchinson.
Footnote 101:
Mr. Otis afterward prosecuted Mr. Robinson for the assault, and the law gave heavy damages against him; but Mr. Otis generously forgave him upon an acknowledgment of the offence.
Footnote 102:
The date of the committee’s letter to the Philadelphians after taking the sense of the inhabitants a second time.
Footnote 103:
The doctor’s account to me, when discoursing upon what is called the massacre.
Footnote 104:
The trial of the soldiers, p. 52.
Footnote 105:
Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, and Crispus Attucks. Samuel Gray was a journeyman, and wrought in the rope-walks belonging to Mr. John Gray, the rope-maker.
Footnote 106:
Lieutenant-governor Hutchinson’s letter of December 10, 1770.
Footnote 107:
The Rev. Mr. Whitney’s discourse on the public fast.
Footnote 108:
M. Hartley.
Footnote 109:
The word _caucus_, and its derivative caucusing, are often used in Boston. The last answers much to what we stile parliamenteering or electioneering. All my repeated applications to different gentlemen have not furnished me with a satisfactory account of the origin of _caucus_. It seems to mean a number of persons, whether more or less, met together to consult upon adopting and prosecuting some scheme of policy, for carrying a favorite point. The word is not of novel invention. More than 50 years ago, Mr. S. Adam’s father, and 20 others, one or two from the north end of the town, where all the ship business is carried on, used to meet, make a caucus, and lay their plan for introducing certain persons into places of trust and power. When they had settled it, they separated, and used each their particular influence within his own circle. He and his friends would furnish themselves with ballots, including the names of the parties fixed upon, which they distributed on the days of election. By acting in concert together, with a careful and extensive distribution of ballots, they generally carried the elections to their own mind. In like manner it was, that Mr. Samuel Adams first became a representative for Boston.
Footnote 110:
The Rev. Mr. Whitney’s Discourse.
Footnote 111:
The lords protest against the act for the better regulating of the government.
Footnote 112:
Parliamentary Debates relative to general Howe. Mr. Galloway’s answers.
Footnote 113:
Lords who signed the protest—Richmond, Portland, Rockingham, Stamford, Stanhope, Torrington, Ponsonby, Wycombe, Camden.
Footnote 114:
See the Remembrancer,