[36] Andrews Letters.
[37] The Andrews Letters, as already noted, are in the Massachusetts Historical Society's Proceedings for the volume of 1864-1865. I shall refer to them frequently without quoting pages.
[38] Wells, "Life of Adams," ii, 193.
[39] Wells, "Adams," ii, 193.
[40] Bancroft, edition of 1876, iv, 344. Subsequent references to Bancroft will be to this edition.
[41] Sic!
[42] Note the use of the word, as meaning England.
[43] I take these facts from Bancroft and the Andrews Letters.
[44] Hancock seems to have practised upon Gage the subterfuge which he afterwards used with Washington, pretending to be too ill to wait upon him.
[45] Andrews Letters.