CONTENTS

THE BRONZE TABLET ERECTED AT QUEBEC TO COMMEMORATE MONTGOMERY’S DEFEAT [Frontispiece]
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THE ORIGIN OF THE MASSACHUSETTS MILITIA James J. Tracy [1]
Chief of the Massachusetts State Archives Division
A BIT OF CHURCH HISTORY Rev. Roscoe Nelson [10]
(The First Church, Windsor, Conn.)
ARNOLD AND MONTGOMERY AT QUEBEC. (Illustration) [13]
The Bronze Tablet Commemorating Arnold’s Defeat
A “SCRUB-POETICAL” ANSWER TO A GOVERNOR Otis G. Hammond [18]
HAS GOVERNOR LOVELACE OF NEW YORK BEEN PROPERLY IDENTIFIED? W. G. Stanard [30]
THE INFLUENCE OF SLAVERY ON THE OLD SOUTHERN CIVILIZATION H. E. Belin [34]
ANTHONY WALTON WHITE, BRIGADIER IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY A. S. Graham and Anna M. W. Woodhull [40]
ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS
 Two Eighteenth Century Letters [45]
 The Panama Canal Twenty-five Years Ago [48]
 The Earliest Known Autograph of Benedict Arnold [50]
MAGAZINE OF HISTORY NOTICE [51]
GENEALOGICAL [53]
MINOR TOPICS: A Committee to Visit Nova Scotia [56]
BOOK NOTICES [57]
ANNOUNCEMENTS [58]

Entered as second-class matter, March 1, 1905, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.

Copyright, 1905, by William Abbatt

SCENE OF MONTGOMERY’S DEFEAT.
Tablet placed by the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, 1904.

THE MAGAZINE OF HISTORY

WITH NOTES AND QUERIES

Vol. I JANUARY, 1905 No. 1