[63] A specimen is an address by Rev. Thomas Allen, Minister of Pittsfield, Mass., entitled "Instruction and Counsel of a Country Clergyman, given to his People, Lord's Day, June 20, 1779, immediately after reading [to them] the Address of the Honorable Congress to the Inhabitants of these United States." See Boston Independent Chronicle, July 15, 1779.
[64] See Madison's Debates, August 28, 1787.
[65] Rights of the British Colonies (Boston, 1764), p. 10.
[66] Letter to Edmund Dana, March 19, 1766: Loring's Hundred Boston Orators, 2d ed., p. 51.
[67] Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law: Works, Vol. III. p. 463.
[68] Hutchinson, History of Massachusetts, Vol. III. p. 119.
[69] Journal of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts Bay, October 24, 1765, p. 135. Hutchinson, Vol. III., Appendix, p. 474.
[70] Bancroft, History of the United States, Vol. V. p. 272.
[71] Ibid.
[72] Journal of the House of Representatives, September 25, 1765, p. 119. Hutchinson, Vol. III. p. 467.