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. p. 227, the note.

Footnote 115:

See the Spectator, No. 509.

Footnote 116:

See general Gage’s account of the behavior of the troops, in the London Gazette.

Footnote 117:

This was practised.

Footnote 118:

Afterward a lieutenant-colonel in Shelden’s light horse.

Footnote 119:

So Tyconderoga is frequently called for the sake of brevity, especially by the people dwelling in its neighborhood.

Footnote 120:

The territory has now the name of Vermont.

Footnote 121:

Between 112 and 120 iron cannon from 6 to 24 pounders; 50 swivels of different sizes; 2 ten inch mortars; 1 howitzer; 1 cohorn; 10 tons of musket balls; 3 cart load of flints 30 new carriages; a considerable quantity of shells; a warehouse full of meterials to carry on boat building; 100 stand of small arms; 10 casks of very indifferent powder; a brass cannon; 30 barrels of flour; 18 barrels of pork, and some beans and pease.

The prisoners were the captain, lieutenant, a gunner, 2 serjeants, and 44 rank and file, beside women and children.

Footnote 122:

Since collector of imposts and excise for the county of Suffolk in Massachusetts.

Footnote 123:

General Burgoyne’s Letter.

Footnote 124:

This resolution was assigned by a near female relation of the general, to a gentlewoman with whom she had been acquainted at school, as a reason why the other, upon obtaining a pass to quit Boston, should not tarry at her father’s (Mr. Cary’s) house in Charlestown.

Footnote 125:

Mr. afterward major Winslow, of the American artillery (who was personally acquainted with the general, and crossed over from Boston to the place of action after the battle, and narrowly surveyed the body) related his being so shot, and the hand’s being bloody as if by the wound.

Footnote 126:

Entick’s History of the War, from 1755, Vol. IV. p. 20. printed for Mr. Dilly.

Footnote 127:

Dr. Price’s two tracts on civil liberty,