[12] Winthrop, History of New England, ed. Savage, Vol. II. p. 100.
[13] Ibid., p. 160.
[14] Plan of Union: Franklin’s Works, ed. Sparks, Vol. III. pp. 36, seqq.
[15] Bancroft, History of the United States, Vol. IV. p. 126.
[16] Franklin to Governor Shirley, December 22, 1754: London Chronicle, Feb. 6-8, 1766, Vol. XIX. p. 133; London Magazine, Feb. 1766, Vol. XXXV. p. 95. See also Franklin’s Works, ed. Sparks, Vol. III. p. 66.
[17] Wells’s Life of Samuel Adams, Vol. II. pp. 90, 94.
[18] Ibid., p. 94.
[19] Journals of Congress, October 14, 1774, Vol. I. pp. 28, 29.
[20] The Federalist, ed. J. C. Hamilton, Historical Notice, pp. xii, xiv, lix.
[21] Wordsworth, The Excursion, Book IV. 138, 139.